BY J. H. MAIDEN. 519 



" In many instances it is impossible to classify Eucalypts 

 on the shape of fruits, anthers, buds, and leaves, and in this con- 

 nection is mentioned the case of E. bicolor* and E. pendulaj of 

 A. Cunningham. It has been customar}- in recent times to 

 synonymise these species under the name of ^. largijlorens, F.v.M. 

 Now Cunningham, who was a field botanist, and who was familiar 

 with these trees, named the bastard box of Cabramatta E. hicolor* 

 a tree with a dark box bark on the stem, and with clear ivhite 

 limbs, and having a light brown-coloured timber, whilst the 

 " Coolabah " of the interior he named E. jjendula.i from its 

 drooping habit. This tree has a red-coloured timber, and a box- 

 bark extending to the ultimate branches. The oils of the two 

 trees are also quite distinct. The economic and systematic 

 materials of E. pendula have been obtained from many parts of 

 the colony, and show the usual constancy of specific characters 

 which the author has found to hold in almost all other Eucalyptus 

 species. This also applies to E. bicolor, and on these grounds it 

 is contended that the two trees should be regarded as distinct 

 species. The only resemblance is the venation of the lanceolate 

 form of leaf. If placed under' E. largiJlo7'ens,l then there would 

 be the anomaly of having under one species a tree with two kinds 

 of bark, two kinds of timber, two kinds of oil, and a variation in 

 leaves" (R. T. Baker, Proc. A.A. A.S. Melbourne, 1900, p. 230). 



Again the same writer states : — 



'' I am much indebted in this instance to the writings of the 

 late Dr. Woolls for finding the particular tree of E, bicolor.f In 

 his ' Contributions to the Flora of Australia ' (p. 232) he gives the 

 locality Cabramatta, where will be found trees that exactlj^ 

 coincide with Cunningham's description of E. bicolor, and in no 

 way agree with E. largiflnrens, F.v.M. {E. pendula, A. Cunn.f), 

 of the interior. I and others have now seen both trees in the 

 field and agree that the two are quite distinct, and Cunningham 



'' E. Bosistoaiia, F.v.M. 



t E. bicolor, A. Cunn. 



X E. bicolor, A. Cunn., is a synonym of E. largijlorens, F.v.M. 



