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ON FOUR NEW SPECIES OF EUCALYPTUS. 



By J. H. Maiden, Government Botanist and Director of 

 THE Botanic Gardens, Sydney. 



1. Eucalyptus Seeana, sp.nov. 



Syn. presumably E. tereticornis, Sm., var. Ii7iearis, Baker & 

 Smith, • Research on the Eucalypts,' p. 74. 



A smooth-barked tree of medium size, with blotches on the 

 bark, most closely resembling that of E. tereticornis; sometimes 

 with a grey smoothish bark reminding one of that of E.jninctata 

 and E. projnnqua. 



Juvenile leaves petiolate, narrow-linear and falcate, say 4 inches 

 long and | inch wide, with numerous prominent transverse veins. 



MafAire lerhves with long slender petioles, the leaves attaining 

 a length of 9 inches and more, with an average width of, say, 

 \ inch; texture rather thin, equally dull on both sides, with 

 numerous minute transverse veins; the intramarginal vein dis- 

 tinct and somewhat removed from the edge of the leaf. The 

 foliage slender, graceful and drooping. 



Buds narrow, the operculum long and tapering, of the tereti- 

 cornis type. The inflorescence usually up to seven in the head 

 in the axils of the leaves, the peduncle about |inch long and the 

 pedicels about \ inch in length. 



Fruit.. — The peduncle and pedicel of the fruit are but slightly 

 angular. Fruit small, nearly hemispherical, its diameter about 

 y\ inch; the rim well defined, forming a broadish band with the 

 top of the ridn trun'cate and the valves (three or four in the speci- 

 mens seen) well exserted. 



This is a species that I have had under observation for a con- 

 siderable period, but I hesitated to raise it to specific rank until 

 I had seen it in the field. 



