SOME ADDITIONS TO OUR RECORDED FLOWERING 

 PLANTS. 



By L. Rodway, C.M.G. 

 Government Botanist of Tasmania. 

 Plate VIII. 

 (Read 13th November, 1922.) 



Eucalyptus dalrymplecniu, J. H. Maiden. This white 

 gum has hitherto been included by us as one of the forms 

 grouped under the name of Eiic. viminalis. It differs from 

 the type in general robustness, bark smooth from the base, 

 and the leaves of the immature shoots being relatively broad- 

 er and boldly cordate at the base. The tree is widely dis- 

 tributed in Tasmania. 



EncainptHf! irbyi, R. T. Baker. A small tree with a 

 smooth, pale, or ashy-coloured bark. Abnormal leaves broad- 

 ovate to ovate, sometimes mucronate, petiolate, base rounded, 

 truncate, or slightly cordate, fairly thick and coriaceous. 

 Normal leaves coarse, lanceolate to broad lanceolate, or even 

 ovate, acuminate, up to 8 inches long, mostly straight, on 

 unusually long petioles; venation often indistinct, intra-vein 

 looped, well removed from the edge, lateral veins spreading, 

 distant, inclined at an angle of 30-40 deg. to the mid-rib. Ped- 

 uncles angular, axillary, 1-2 lines long, bearing umbels of 

 mostly three flowers. Buds shortly pedicellate; calyx-tube 

 turbinate, 2 lines in length; operculum blunt, conical, often 

 slightly broader than and more than half as long as the tube. 

 Fruit hemispherical to sub-cylindrical glaucous or shining, 

 rim flat to convex, often somewhat depi'essed, cracked trans- 

 versely; valves more or less exserted; 3 lines long and 3 

 lines diameter. 



The above is Mr. Baker's description as given in his 

 noble work on essential oils of the eucalypts. It is ad- 

 mittedly close to Euc. gunnii. Exic. gunnii is a most variable 

 group of forms, and it is more a matter of individual opinion 

 than certainty what forms should be removed from the type 

 and elevated to specific rank. When fully understood pro- 

 bably other specific names will be added to the list. 



The specimens cf the tree were gathered by Mr. Irby, 

 the Conservator of Forests, at Alma Tier. 



Caladenia atkiiisoiii, v.h. About six inches high with a 

 single filiform leaf arising from the scape and flower struc- 



