mucro :—both surfaces of the leaves are glanduloso-punctate and 
penninerved, the nerves rather remote, subobsolete, and meeting 
another longitudinal and still more indistinct nerve near the 
margin. Inflorescence a terminal many-flowered corymé, bearing 
one or more leaves, indicating rather axillary umbels of from 
three to five flowers, some of the leaves being abortive. Peduncles 
two-edged. Overculum short, hemispherical, wrinkled, depressed 
in the centre. Stamens very numerous, lemon-yellow. Calyz 
and fruit obconical, much wrinkled, and marked with four ele- 
vated longitudinal ridges. Sfy/e very short, sunk in the tubular 
portion of the calyx. W. J. H. 
Cutt. This, like most of the plants from Van Diemen’s Land, 
must be treated as a greenhouse plant, but being of rapid growth, 
it soon becomes too large for the loftiest greenhouse, and, con- 
sequently, must be cut down or planted out-of-doors. If our 
winters were never more severe than the one just past, this 
would not be necessary, for when we have a succession of mild 
winters, Hucalypti sometimes attain a height of twenty feet and 
upwards, but a severe winter kills them to the ground; it is 
therefore only in the south and western parts of England, and 
other localities favoured with mild winters, that this plant may 
be expected to attain a height that will entitle it to be called a 
forest tree ; and it would probably do so if planted in a sheltered 
situation amongst other trees. Plants of it are easily obtained 
from seeds, which, like those of Myrtacee generally, do not 
readily lose their vitality by the sea voyage. They vegetate 
quickly when placed in a moderate heat; and when they are 
about half an inch high they should be transplanted singly into 
pots ; if, however, intended for planting in the open air, it is 
very desirable that they should not be kept there long in small 
pots, for the main or tap root, by being confined, forms a spiral 
coil, which thickens with the growth of the plant, and ultimately 
proves a very msecure support to the tree, which, on account of 
its rapid growth, and the resistance of its d Re bl 
to withstand high winds. J. 8. its dense foliage, is unable 
Fig. 1. Calyx on immature fruit :—maynified. 
