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EUCALYPTUS EUCOMMIA 



E. URNIGERA, Hooker fit. 







A tree up to 80 ft. high in this country. Young shoots of juvenile trees 

 warted ; leaves orbicular, often notched or with a small mucro at the apex ; 

 i to if ins. wide ; those of adults ovate to lanceolate, 2 to 4 ins. long, f 

 to 2 ins. wide ; tapered or rounded at the base. Flowers usually three 

 together (sometimes one or two) on a main-stalk up to I in. long, the stalk 

 of the individual flowers also distinctly developed and to \ in. long. Calyx- 

 tube urn -shaped, \ in. long ; stamens yellow, forming a ring f in. across. 



Native of Alpine districts of Tasmania. Mr Bennett, late gardener at 

 Menabilly, informs me that in 1909 a specimen 80 ft. high and 3 ft. 9 ins. 



EUCALYPTUS GUNNII. 



in girth of trunk, was the tallest gum-tree there. E. urnigera is much 

 confused with E. Gunnii, but is well distinguished by the longer main flower- 

 stalk, the well-developed secondary ones, and by the calyx-tube being more 

 swollen towards the base, i.e. urn-shaped rather than funnel-shaped. 



EUCOMMIA ULMOIDES, Oliver. TROCHODENDRACE^:. 



A deciduous tree, not yet found by Europeans in a wild state, but 

 from 20 to 30 ft. high, as seen cultivated by the Chinese. It probably 

 attains to a large size. Leaves alternate, ovate to oval, long and slender- 

 pointed, toothed, 3 to 8 ins. long, slightly hairy on both surfaces when 

 young, becoming smooth above. Flowers unisexual, the sexes on 



