PROCEEDINGS OF SECTION D. 555 
18.—SOME NOTES UPON THE RARER SPECIES 
OF TASMANIAN EUCALYPTS, WITH SPECIAL 
REFERENCE TO A SUPPOSED NEW SPECIES. 
By G. 8S. Perrin, F.L.8., Conservator of State Forests, Victoria. 
[ Abstract. | 
THE timber trees of Tasmania, and more particularly the 
eucalypts, are well and widely known. The famous blue-gum 
(Z. globulus) has won the name of anti-fever tree, whilst its 
merits as an anti-malarial agent upon the Pontine Marshes, in 
Algiers, and in America are now acknowledged. 
The next most important tree is Z. od/iqgua, the “ stringy-bark,” 
which has outstripped Z. g/obu/us in commercial value. These 
two, with £. amygdalina, var regnans, the swamp-gum, and 
E. sieberiana, vie with each other in the extraordinary girth and 
height of the trunk.* 
If we leave out the timber eucalypts of Tasmania the list of 
alpine or sub-alpine species becomes very restricted, and consist 
of the following :— 
£. vernicosa.—Sub-alpine, very distinct. Small-leaved species, 
somewhat similar to the Alpine form of Z. eunnii, Victoria. The 
former, however, has thick, fleshy leaves, ovate or semi-orbicular. 
Timber small, scrubby nature. Mountain tops. 
£. cordata.— A somewhat rare and very interesting eucalypt, 
from the extreme beauty of its foliage and inflorescence. That 
this tree is not commonly found may be inferred from the fact 
that, although the author explored the greater portion of Tasmania 
during a two years’ residence, and kept a special look out for this 
particular tree, he never had the good fortune to come across it. 
The specimen exhibited was sent from Hobart by Mr. F. Abbott, 
of the Botanic Gardens. It is, however, fair to state that the 
writer never visited that particular part of Mount Wellington 
where Messrs. Stephens and Abbott re-discovered the tree many 
years after Labillardiere first brought it under the notice of the 
scientific world in 1806. In respect to its isolation and compara- 
tive rarity, this species is comparable to £. alpima in Victoria, 
and, like the latter, may doubtless be cultivated, and thus saved 
from utter extinction, as an ornamental plant for our parks and 
gardens. 
£. cordata is of shrubby growth, its handsome glaucous foliage 
and rich golden-yellow stamens fringing the edge of the calyces 
at once arrest the eye, and also the rich colouration of its 
opposite, sessile, clasping, cordate, and broadly ovate leaves, in 
conjunction with the size and general beauty of its inflorescence. 
* A blue-gum measured by the author at Geeveston, Huon River, Tasmania, gave the 
length of 330 feet clear of top branches, having a diameter at the break of l6 inches. This 
was the highest tree seen and measured by the author in Tasmania. 
