Drummondiane. N. O. Myrtacee. 
TABS. CDV. CDVI. 
EvcALyptus MACROCARPA. fn. sp. 
Arbor ubique farinaceo-glaucescens, foliis cordato-ellipticis brevi- 
acuminatis, pedunculis axillaribus solitariis brevissimis uné- 
floris, calycis magni crassissimi Operculo conico-acuminate, 
capsula maxima breviter hemispherica marginata lignosa 4-5 
Has. Guangan; Swan River Colony, Australia. Mr. J. Drum 
mond. : 
One of the finest among the many fine plants lately sent to me 
by Mr. Js. Drummond from the Swan River Colony, is the pre- 
_ Sent new species of Eucalyptus. (t is noticed in Mr. Drummond's 
letters published in the 2d vol. of our “ Journal of Botany,” 
p- 343, and subsequent pages. Guangan is the native name of 
‘@ country inland from the Swan River coast, constituting at 
Open sandy desert, commencing about eighty miles E. S. E. of 
Freemantle and continuing for 200 miles, This barren sandy 
district is bordered by a considerable forest, composed princi- 
pally of two Species of Eucalyptus, called Urac and Morral 
by the aborigines, The present one is the Morral, conspi- 
— by its noble, glaucous, almost white leaves, its red 
: wers and Its fruit, both of an unusually large size. The 
rok Species, however, Mr, Drummond has seen with white 
Tab CDV. CVI. Portion : 
ee oe of a flowering pl t: nat. size, and 
et Paco, «32S 
