Ewealyptus.] XLVIII. MYRTACEJE. 203 
Tasmania kat: Gees Abundant throughout the island, * Peppermint-tree,? J. D. 
Hooker, es other 
~ E ligust a, DC. Prod. i iii. bx described from Sieber's specimens n. 617, which I have 
not seen, is siet this specie 
Var. radiata. Leaves rushed: broade er, 3 to 4 in. long. Flowers usually more numerous, 
sometimes near 20 in the umbels, Fruit almost pear-shaped.— E. radiata, en ae n DC, 
Prod. iii. 218; DC. fun Myrt. t. 7. —Chiefly in N. S. Wan, Sieber, n. 475, thers ; 
Beut’s Basin and Nepean mths “White Gum,” with a smooth bar k, Vois; South of 
Angle, i5 Hinh ots in Victoria and "titia mute into the ord 
Leav bmp and more rigid.  Peduncles and pedicels sorter. 
Wd wn gen DC. Prod. iii. 219? from the diagnosis taken fr labile ar- 
= mum E. nitida, Hook. f. Fl. Tasm. i. 137. t. 29.—In the dried phir erar this 
appears to pe into the variety elata of E. Risdoni. 
as ? hypericifolia. Leaves of the Ze branches all posit Caen goi 
: rounded or cordate at the base, and ‘ep or nearly so.— Risdon Cove, R. Bro hyper: 
cifolia, R. Br. Herb.—The specimens are hag and good but in fruit SC To ‘this tine oun 
belong also some of the geg plants dicted from the foliage E under the same name, 
(Old ld), dark brown or atria i or a mixture of both (2. Brown), the flower- 
ing shoots often glaucous or nearly white. Leaves spec eis all, eve the 
lowering branches, opposite ovate-cordate and more or less connate, or some- 
Buds mitia d Calyx-tube very open, RUNE 5 Tines diameter. Oper a 
culum hemispherical, obtuse, shorter than the calyx-tu tamens nearly 3 
long, inflected in the bud, all perfect ; anthers with divergent confluent 
cells, Ovary flat- -topped. Fruit subglobose-truncate, attaining 4 lines dia- 
meter, somewhat contracted at the orifice, the rim rather broad, fiat or slightly 
s Kb the EH not sunk, the valves flat or slightly protru 
« pesman In the Wës parts of the ez dla rather abundant, ‘‘ Risdon” or 
Zo SC sd d Brown, J. D. Hooker. , Oldfield 
res ar. elata. A beautiful tree of the largest size, the bark of the trunk grey and deci- 
m that of the extremities of Aa €— os? plish-red or age? ei done 
ae broadly M faleate, 2 to . long, rather es ck, som s almost as in 
P ‘qua. Flow f E. Cor Fruit. pear- i ped, 4 lines Casen with a broad 
pa tim.— Lake St. er re This va doe ^ the dried yum. appears to connect 
SCH to E Ris 
o E.a 
a thee : nites E. Risdoni ger with m "pues ina. J.D. Hooker and Oldfield, 
: dines oe from observations made on the spot, have assured me that the two are quite 
as well as in the bark. i y frequent 
STM 
h than i 
Ze "oe ege however, » to wh xs atm d e ible 
to dente qur ii any precise limite, and in that state it is sometimes scarce , possible 
0 which s Species they should be referred. 
