76G colouration of young foliage of eucalyptus. 



E. virgata Sieb. (Luehmanniana P. v. M.) 



1. National Park, 4.7.17. 



Young foliage — "quaker green," Plate 271, shade 1; also 

 "pale green oxide of chromium," Plate 243, shades 1-4; 

 "old moss green," Plate 290, shade 1 . 



Young twigs and petioles — "yellow green" or "primrose 

 yellow," Plate 16. 



2. Same place and date. 



Young J. oliage — Plates 271 and 245 . 

 Petioles — "lemon yellow," Plate 20, shade 4. 

 Young stems — "ox's blood reel," Plate 94, shade 2. 



3. Spit Road, Manly, 14.9.16. 



Young foliage — "spinach green," Plate 270, shade 2. 

 Leaves the same on both sides, surface dull, bright yel- 

 low midrib and edges. 



Branchlets coarse, angular, flattened, lemon-yellow. 



The following notes on colours have not been standardised by 

 reference to Dauthenay, or any similar work. 



a. E. affinis. Stuart Town (J.L.B.) "Leaves atropur- 

 pureus." 



b. Red (bleeding heart) leaves in E. obliqua (Tas.). 



c. "As a young tree, the marked purplish cast of its foliage 

 gives it an ornamental appearance." E. Planchoniana in Part 

 IX., p. 291, C.R. 



d. "A specimen of E. purpuraseens Link, in Herb. Vindob., 

 is in the opposite-leaved stage, and is probably E. amygdalina 

 Labill. The underside of the young foliage of this species is 

 often purple. E. amygdalina, C.R., Part VI., p. 153. 



