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NOTE ON A SPECIES OF EUCALYPTUS NEW TO 



TASMANIA. 



By J. H. Maiden, F.L.S. (Core. Member), 



Director, Botanical G-ardens, Sydney. 



{Ueacl September 8th, 1902.) 



(Issued September 10th, 1902.) 



Eucalyptus Macartliuri, Deane and Maiden, between Delo- 

 raine and Chudleigh Junction, January, 1902. 



Swanport, Dr. Story (labelled E. 8tuartiana, by Mueller). 



For an account of this species see Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., 

 1899, 448, with figure. Its discovery in Tasmania was the 

 outcome of the Australian Association for the Advancement 

 of Science Meeting at Hubart, and came about in the follow- 

 ing way : — Mr. R. H. Cambage, L.S., of Sydney, was travelling 

 in the train between Deloraine and Chudleigh Junction when 

 he espied a rather umbrageous tree, with fibrous bark up to 

 the branchlets, in grassy flats or depressions, which become 

 filled up with water during the wet weather, on the right 

 bank of the Meander River. From its situation and habit 

 of growth he considered it might be E Macartliuri, which he 

 had seen in New South Wales. When he came to the above 

 meeting at Hobart he communicated to me his suspicious, 

 and as it was impossible for him to examine the tree per- 

 sonally, I made a special journey to Deloraine, found the 

 tree in question, and obtained specimens, which proved the 

 species to be E. Macartliuri, Deane and Maiden. I have since 

 seen specimens in the Melbourne Herbarium, collected by 

 the late Dr. Story at Swanport, Oyster Bay, Tasmania, and 

 referred to by Mueller at the time to be E. Stuartiana. 

 Further inquiry will doubtless greatly extend the range of 

 the species, which will probably be found in Victoria also ere 

 long. 



We thus add an additional Eucalyptus species to the flora 

 of Tasmania, which now stands at 18, since in my paper on 

 " The common Eucalyptus flora of Tasmania and New South 

 Wales," read at the Hobart meeting, I produced evidence 

 that the number stood at 17. 



This species of Eucalyptus promises to have commercial 

 importance through the researches of Mr. H. G. Smith, who 

 has shown that its oil contains geranyl acetate in large quan- 

 tities, which oil, when rectified, has a delicious odour of roses, 

 which is remarkable in the genus. As I do not know the 

 extent to which this interesting species occurs in Tasmania, 



