Tab. 7835. 

 EUCALYPTUS co|idata. 



Native of Tasmania. 



Nat. Ord. MyrtacejK. — Tribe LEPTOSPEKMBiE. 

 Genus Eucalyptus, L. Hkr. ; (Benih. & Eook.f. Oen. Plant, vol. i. p. 707.) 



Eucalyptus (Normales) cordaia ; frutex v. arbor parva, foliosa, albo-glauca, 

 cortice tenni, ramulis erectis tetragonis rigidulis, foliis 3-4 poll, longia 

 oppositis sessilibus orbicularibus v. late ovato-rotundatis crenulatia 

 apiculatis basi Bobcordatis rigidulis utrinque concoloribus nervis gracil- 

 limis patulis, pedunculia axillaribus brevissimis 2-4-floris, floribns 

 majusculis sessilibus, calyce hemispberico v. late campanulato ad ^ poll, 

 diam. basi rotundato glauco-viridi punctulato ore aperto margine acute 

 sub lente crenulato, opercnlo calycis tubo breviore depresso-conico v, 

 -bemispherico albo roseo sufFuso, Btamiuibus calyci Eequilongis filamentis 

 seativatione inflexis, antheris rainutis fere globosis glandula dorsali magna, 

 loculis parallelis, stylo brevi crassiusculo, stigmate simplici, fructu calyci 

 consimili sed pauUo majore crasse coriaceo, capsulse valvis immersis parvis 

 trigonis. 



E. cordata, Lahill. PL Nov. Soil. vol. ii. p. 13, t. 152. DC. Prodr. vol. iii. 

 p. 221 (in part). Hooh.f. Fl. Tasman. vol. i. p. 132. Benth. Fl. Amiral. 

 vol. 111. p. 224. F. Muell. Eucali/ptogr. dec. viii. 



The nearest ally of Eucalyptus cordata is E. pulverulenta, 

 Sims, tab. 2087 of this work, where E. cordata is doubt- 

 fully referred to it. Both these species have opposite, 

 sessile, cordate, semi-amplexicaul, farinaceous leaves and 

 branches, and normally ternate flowers on very short 

 peduncles; they differ in the leaves of E. cordata being 

 crenulate, and the calyx-tube rounded at the base, whereas 

 the leaves of 77. pulverulenta are entire or obscurely crenu- 

 late, and the calyx-tube narrowed at the base ; moreover, 

 the first is confined to Western and Southern Tasmania, 

 the latter to New South Wales. 



The plant of E. cordata, from which our figure is taken, 

 was raised from seed sent to the Royal Gardens, Kew, by 

 Mr. Abbott, of the Hobarton Botanic Gardens, Tasmania, 

 in 1901. It is now a pyramidal tree fifteen feet high, 

 which flowers annually in autumn in the Mexican House. 



The species has been grown out of doors in various 

 parts especially of the south of England, and as far north 

 as the Isle of Arran in the Clyde. 1 remember a plant of it 



May 1st, 1002, 



