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ISrOTE ON EUCALYPTUS LINE A BIS, D'EB.l^iB.AUBT. 



(A Supposed Tasmanian Species.) 



By J. H. Maiden, Director Botauic Gardens, Sydney, 

 Corresponding Member. 



(Eead July 8th, 1902.) 



(Issued July 23rd, 1902.) 



In a paper entitled " The Common Eucalyptus Flora of 

 Tasmania and New South Wales," read by me before the 

 Australasiau Association for the Advancement of Science at 

 its Hobart meeting last January, I drew attention to a small 

 smooth-barked Mount Wellington tree, closely related to 

 Eucalyptus amygdcdina, Libill., and considered to be E. 

 Ii7iearis, Dehnhardt. 



I have recently received for study, from the Imperial 

 Natural History Museum of Vienna, a type specimen of 

 Dehnhardt's species, which is, however, in bud only. The 

 original label in Dehnhardt's handwriting is in German, of 

 which the following is a translation : — 



" I pray you read my description in the Catalogue. The 

 tree is 40ft. high, with a slender stem, and flowers the second 

 time." 



The reference to the '* Cataloiicue" is doubtless to the 

 " Catalogus plantarum horti Camaldulensis," which contains 

 the description of the species, and which I have given in full 

 in my paper already referred to. The work in question was 

 published at Naples, and I understand the Hortus Camal- 

 dulensis was a garden near that city. The first edition was 

 published in 1829, and the second in 1832, and should be 

 noted in case any claims for f)riority arise. 



Dehnhardt's plant is, without doubt, a cultivated one, and 

 bearing in mind the marked way ia which seedling Eucalyptus 

 plants differ from their parents, it is not likely to be absolutely 

 identical with the Mount Wellington plants to which it has 

 been referred. The idea becomes stronger with me that 

 E. linearis, Dehn., will prove to be a perfectly smooth-barked 

 form of E. amijgdalina, with unusually thin, linear leaves. 

 If so, this form of E. amygdalina might be named var. 

 U7iearis. 



My researches in European herbaria in regard to this 

 genus has brought to light another named species which is 

 con-specific with E. linearis. It is E. pulcliella, Desfontaines. 



The original work not being in any Australian library, I 

 obtained a copy of the description from Kew. It is as 

 follows : — ■ 



" Eucalyptus pulchella, Desf . Eamulis filiformibus , foliis 

 alternis, lineari-subulatis : floribus axillaribus, umbellatis, 

 operculo convexo, mucrone obtuso, brevissimo. 



