566 ON EUCALYPTUS GUNNTI, HOOK. F., 



2. E. persicifolia, Lodd. (Bot. Cab. t. 501). 



''This plant is a native of New Holland, and was introduced 

 several years since; it is a large evergreen branching shrub or 

 small tree. The flowers are produced in axillary heads from six 

 to twelve blossoms each, usually situated at some distance below 

 the ends of the shoot: they are very long before they expand, 

 which is generally the case in this genus, and have no scent. 

 Our drawing was made in July last, from flowers which had been 

 full twelve months coming to perfection." It will be seen 

 that, although often quoted, this plant has not been botanically 

 described. 



Yar. B. is Sieber's No. 593, see Don, ii. 818. 



I have not seen Loddiges' plant, which Bentham refers to B. 

 viminalis (of which, if correctly referred to that species, it must 

 be a multiflowered form). There is nothing, however, in 

 Loddiges' flgure inconsistent with the view that the plant is a 

 multiflowered form of Gunnii (e.g. var. acervula), and partly in 

 view of Mueller's determination of Miquel's E. jDersicifolia, I refer 

 Loddiges' plant also to E. Gunnii (var. acervula). 



The Index Kewensis states that E. persicifolia, Lodd., is 

 synonymous with E. Stuartiana. By that E. Gunnii, Hook. f. 

 var. acervula is probably meant. 



3. E. jyersici/olia, Miq., non Lodd., referred to briefly in Ned. 

 Kruidk. Arch. iv. 137 (1856) as follows :— 



" 29. Eucalyptus persicifolia, Lodd. —DC. Prod. iii. p. 217, n.8 (?) 

 Van Diemensland (Stuart n. 12)." 



I have not seen the plant referred to by Miquel, but Mueller 

 (Eucalyptographia) states that it is a form of E. Gunnii. In 

 Index Kewensis referred to E. Stua^-tiana just like E.ijersicifolia, 

 Lodd. {supra). 



Schlechtendal in Linnaea, Vol. 20, p. 659, has the following. I 

 have not seen his specimen : — 



"181. Eucalyptus persicifolia, Lodd., DC. Pr. iii. p. 217, n.8. 

 Specimina nondum florentia differunt a Sieberianis : f oliis breviori- 

 bus, umbellis longius pedunculatis floribusque longius pedicellatis. 



