80 NOTE ON EUCALYPTUS LINEARIS, DEHNHARDT. 



"Kamuli filiformes, pauiculati. Folia uucias 2 longa, 

 lineam 1 lata, utrinque acuta. Petioli breves. Flores in 

 innliellulas axillares dispositi. Pedunculus communis folio 

 multoties brevior, 10-12 — florus." 



(Cat Hort. Paris. Fd._3, 408, 1829.) 



Delinliardt contracts this description into : — 



'^Eucalyptus pulcheUa. "Ramulis filiformibas"; foliis 

 alternis lineari-subulatis. Ramulis filiformibus panicularis. 

 Folia uncias 2 longa, linf am I lata." 



(Dehnb. Cat. PI. Hort Camald. Ed. 2, p. 20.*) 



Walpers' description, published in 1845, is also adapted 

 from the orisfiual, and is as follows : — 



" Hamulis filiformib foil, alternis lineari-subulatis, florib. 

 axillarib, umbellatis ; operculo convexo, mucrone obtuso 

 brevissimo.— Crescit ? " 



(Walpers' Repert. III. 927.) 



BeDtham perha]>s saw the species, but he pronounces it to 

 be " very doubtful " 



I have recently received some specimens from the Vienna 

 Eerbarium labelled '' E. pulcheUa, Hort., Kew." They are 

 in bud, and are identical with E. linearis, Dehn. 



Undoubtedly the WdTaQ pudcliella was well bestowed, for the 

 specimens h;ive especially long, narrow, liiiear leave.', which 

 are very graceful. 



The upshot of my investiga^tion is that: — 



E. linearis, Dehnbardt, and E. p)'^'^cliella., Desfontaines, are 

 specifically identical. Both were named from plants raised 

 in Europe. In my Australasian Association for the Advance- 

 ment of Science paper I have put forth a plea for a final 

 investigation by Tasmanian botanists as to whether a certain 

 Mount Wellington tree is identical with E. linearis, Dehnh., 

 and, if so, whether it is con-specific with E, amygdalina, 

 Labill. 



* III mv A.A.A.S. Taper I quote E. imlchella, and aLso E. ruhricauUs, as they 

 follcnv Dehnhaidt'.s description of E. linearis. My identification of E. ptdchella is 

 given below. I have also seen E. rubricaulift, Desf., -which is not [identical with 

 E. linearis, and may not be a Eucalyptus at all. 



