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MISCELLANEOUS NOTES (CHIEFLY TAXONOMIC) ON 

 EUCALYPTUS, i. 



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

 THE Botanic Gardens, Sydney. 



I. E. amygdalina, Labill. 



De Candolle figured the Prodromus specimen of E. radiata, 

 Sieb., in DC, Mem. Myrt. t. 7. 



Bentham (B.Fl. iii. 203), quoting the Prodromus and Mem. 

 Myrt., names this plant B. amygdalina, Labill., var. 7'adiata. 

 He, however, quotes Sieber's number as 475. A specimen of 

 Sieber's No. 475 I received from the Bot. Museum, Berlin 

 (labelled E. pauciflora, Sieb., by the way) is E. radiata, Sieb., and 

 probably De Candolle's quotation of 425 is a mere slip of the pen. 



I have also an original specimen of Sieber's Fl. mixta, No. 604 

 [there are, of course, two series, " plant exs " (plant?e exotica^) 

 and Fl. mixta], which is obviously similar to De Candolle's draw- 

 ing of E. 7'adiata, Sieb., in Mem. Myrt, t. 7. I am, therefore, in 

 a position to speak with authority as to the identification of E. 

 radiata, Sieb. Under E. viminalis, Bentham (B.Fl. iii. 240) 

 refers Sieber's Fl. Mixt. 604 to E. viminalis; there has been some 

 confusion of numbers here which I do not pretend to be able to 

 unravel and which is of no particular consequence. 



E. radiata, Sieb., appears to be nothing more or less than a 

 form of E. amygdulina very common in New South Wales, and I 

 see nothing distinctive enough to warrant its being called a 

 variety. The typical amygdalina from Tasmania, with its linear- 

 lanceolate, often thickish leaves, with hemispherical opercula and 

 hemispherical, usually broad-rimmed fruit, doubtless appeared to 



