BY J. H. MAIDEN. 521 



The origin of A. Cunningham's name i-)endula doubtless arose 

 from the following : — 



" The ' Weeping Eucalyptus ' of Major Mitchell's Expedition, 

 1836, No. 83 of 20th April." Specimen in Herb. Cant, ex herb. 

 Lindl. This is no doubt the plant referred to in the ' Three 

 Expeditions,' ii. 45, in these words, "In the woods I observed a 

 Eucalyptus, of a graceful drooping character, apparently related 

 to E, 2)ilularis and E. amygdalina.'^ Mitchell was then on the 

 Lachlan. 



The specimen No. 83 has been examined by me and is identical 

 with E. bicolor, A. Cunn., or E. largifloreyis, F.v.M. 



" The interior species, E. pendula, has a Box bark right out to 

 the branchlets (W. Biiuerlen and R. H. Cambage), a red timber, 

 the leaves being longer than those of E. bicolor and glaucous, 

 whilst the fruits are only half the size of the eastern species. The 

 oils are also quite different " (R. T. Baker, these Proceedings, xxv. 

 666). The name E. pendula, A, Cunn., has no real existence, 

 and cannot stand, and the tree referred to is E. bicolor, A. Cunn. 

 The E. bicolor referred to in this passage is, as has been shown, 

 E. Bosistoana, F.v.M. 



4. E. largiflorens, F.v.M. 



Arboreous : leaves alternate, glaucous, opaque, oblong-lanceolate, acute, 

 slightly oblique, thinly veined, hardly dotted; umbels pedunculate, panicled, 

 few-flowered; flowers smal]^ on short pedicels; lid double, thin, nearly even, 

 hemispherical, blunt or minutely apiculate; tube of the calyx obconical-bell- 

 shaped, hardly angular, twice as long as the lower lid; fruits small, half 

 ovate, short stalked, slightly contracted at the top; valves of the capsule 

 inclosed. 



In bushy barren localities on the Murray, Avoca, Wimmera, and on St, 

 Vincent's Gulf. A small tree, with persistent grey-blackish bark " (Trans. 

 Vict. Inst. i. 34, 1855). 



A type specimen in Herb. Melb. bears the following label : — 

 " Eucalyptus largiflorens, ferd. MIL herb. Stuartii 153. Nov. 

 HoU. Austral. 1847. Murra3\ (E. hsemastoma, Sm., Miquel." 

 in Miquel's handwriting, and also bearing the species number 



16, in his Ned. Kruidk. Arch. iv.). "^. bicolor, A.C." (in Bentham's 

 handwriting). 



