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OBSERVATIONS ON THE EUCALYPTS OF NEW 

 SOUTH WALES. 



By Henry Deane, M. A., F, L.S., &c., and J. H. Maiden, F.L.S., &c. 

 (The Illustrations by R. T. Baker, F.L.S.) 



Part I. 



(Plates Liv.-LVii.) 



Introductory. 



The two great works on the genus Eucalyptus are the "Flora 

 Australiensis," (Vol. iii. pp. 185-261); and Baron von Mueller's 

 Monograph "Eucalyptographia," a quarto, with illustrations of 

 one hundred species. 



For some years past we have been giving particular attention 

 to those species which occur in New South Wales, and, as the 

 result of our investigations, both in the field and from examina- 

 tion of specimens, dried or otherwise, we are in a position to 

 submit some notes which we believe will usefully supplement the 

 works above referred to. The subject is a vast one, and we hope 

 to add to these notes on particular species from time to time. 

 We hope to do for the Eucalypts of New South Wales what 

 Howitt has done for those of Gippsland in his paper " The 

 Eucalypts of Gippsland," (Trans. Roy. Soc. Yict., Yol. ii., Part 1, 

 pp. 81-120). 



We trust our facts and suggestions will be found useful as far 

 as they go; they are obviously incomplete in many directions, but 

 we trust that they will lead to the taking of additional observa- 

 tions, and the collection of additional material by botanists and 

 others in every district of the Colony in which Eucalypts are 

 found. 



Eucalyptus stellulata, Sieb. 



Introductory. — The name is rather happy, and refers to the 

 disposition of the buds, which remind one of a little star or 

 rosette. 



