Tas. 4637. 
EUCALYPTUS coccirera. 
Coccus-bearing Gum-tree. \ 
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Nat, Ord. Myrtacrem.—Icosanpria Monoeynta. 
Gen. Char. Oalycis tubus persistens, oboyatus aut globosus, cupuleeformis ; 
limbus operculeformis, integer, basi circumscisse et regulariter dehiscens, deci- 
duus. Petala 0. Staminum filamenta 00, libera. Capsula 4-locularis aut abortu 
3-locularis, apice dehiscens, polysperma.— Arbores (Nove Hollandie) excelsa. 
Folia integerrima, coriacea, sepius alterna, rarius -opposita, interdum in tisdem in- 
dividuis varia, paucis exceptis glaberrima. Pedunculi awillares breves, umbellam 
3-15-floram gerentes. Operculum in nonnullis ex. cl. R. Brown (gen. rem. 68), 
duplex, exterius calycinum, interius corollinum. 
Evcauyprus coccjfera; arborescens glauca, ramis junioribus angulatis, foliis 
alternis sublonge petiolatis coriaceis punctatis marginatis planis obsolete 
penninerviis apice uncinato-acuminatissimis, corymbis terminalibus multi- 
floris (nunc foliiferis), pedicellis ancipiti-compressis, operculo hemispheerico 
centro depresso, calyce obconico rugoso (perglauco) angulis 4 elevatis, sta- 
minibus numerosissimis flavis. 
Evcatyprus coccifera. Hook. fil. in Lond. Journ. of Bot. v. 6. p.478. Lindl. in 
Journ. of Hort. Soc. Lond. v. 6. p. 221 (cum ic.). 
A native of Van Diemen’s Land, on mountains, detected by 
the late Mr. Lawrence, who observed that the foliage was much 
infested with a Coccus, and subsequently found by Ronald 
Gunn, Esq., in whose collections it is indicated as n. 411 
and 1076. It has been, however, for many years in cultivation 
in England, as a standard, in the beautiful gardens of Mr. 
Veitch, where it forms a most graceful tree twenty feet and more 
high, and about London braving our severe winters when trained 
to awall. Our tree flowers copiously at the beginning of winter. 
Drscr. A moderate-sized ¢ree, everywhere clothed with glau- 
cous bloom, but especially on the peduncles and flowers: young 
branches angular: the old ones terete. Leaves alternate, upon 
rather long, terete petioles, spreading, or more usually drooping, 
lanceolate, very flat, coriaceous, thickened, and somewhat red at 
the margin, the apex suddenly acuminated in a long uncinate 
MARCH Ist, 1852, ; 
