Eucalyptus 1 647 



We are unaware, when the species was first introduced. 1 Mr. Birkbeck con- 

 siders it to be far the hardiest of the Eucalypts, forming a beautiful shrub, and not 

 developing into a tree. 



At Kinloch Hourn, it was planted in 1891, and had attained 13 ft. high in 1905, 

 and has never been injured by frost. At Whittingehame, when about 5 ft. high it 

 bore 26 of frost without injury, in February 1894 ; but it was killed to within three 

 feet from the ground in the following severe winter. 2 It produced several shoots in 

 the following year, one of which was preserved ; Elwes found this 20 ft. high and 

 very thriving in February 1905. It ripens seed freely at both Kinloch Hourn and 

 Whittingehame. It is one of the species which is cultivated successfully at Inverewe 

 on the west coast of Ross-shire. We have seen no specimens in England or Ireland, 

 but, Mr. Kempshall states that at Abbotsbury it has passed through the last three 

 severe winters without injury. 



There is no specimen at Kew, a seedling, which was planted out in 1907, having 

 died in 19 10 without any apparent cause. (A. H.) 



EUCALYPTUS MUELLERI, Mueller's Red Gum 



Eucalyptus Muelleri, T. B. Moore, in Proc. Roy. Soc. Tasm. 1886, p. 208 (not Miquel, 3 not Naudin 4 ) ; 

 Mueller in Proc. Roy. Soc. Tasm. 1886, p. 209; Maiden, in Rep. Aust. Assoc. Advance. Sci., 

 Hobart, 1902, p. 376 ; Rodway, in Proc. Roy. Soc. Tasm. 1898-1899, p. 105, and Tasm. Flora, 

 58 (1903)- 



A tall erect tree, attaining in Tasmania in favourable situations a height of 

 200 ft. ; but in some localities much smaller. Bark smooth from the base, greenish, 

 blotched with reddish brown. Young branchlets glabrous, reddish, with prominent 

 oil glands. Leaves (Plate 365, Fig. 6) alternate, thick and firm in texture, 

 lanceolate, averaging 3 to 4 in. long and f to 1 in. wide, straight or slightly 

 falcate, unequal at the cuneate base, gradually tapering to an acuminate apex, ending 

 in a short blunt point ; margin white with remote and very shallow crenations ; 

 equally shining green on both surfaces ; oil-dots numerous, irregular in size, mostly 

 not pellucid ; lateral nerves inconspicuous, arising from the midrib at an angle of 30; 

 petiole twisted, |- to \ in. long. 



Flowers in umbels of threes ; peduncle f in. long ; flower-buds sessile ; calyx- 

 tube angled ; operculum cap-shaped, tuberculate, with an umbonate point ; anther- 

 cells parallel. Fruit-peduncle short, stout, \ to \ in. long, thickened at the distal 



1 Mr. Birkbeck received his first plant from the Edinburgh Botanic Garden in 1891. 



2 Landsborough, in Trans. Bot. Soc. Edin. xxiii. 145 (1905), who states that a seedling was planted at Cromla, Arran, 

 in 1906. 



3 E. Muelleri, Miquel, in Ned. Kruidk. Arch. iv. 130 (1859), is a synonym of E. incrassata, Labillardiere, a species 

 occurring in Victoria. 



* E. Mttelleri, Naudin, in Rev. Hort. Ivii. 406 (1885), and in Descrip. Eucalypt. 45 (1821), described from a tree 

 cultivated at Antibes, is unknown to me, and is a synonym of a previously described Australian species, possibly E. salmono- 

 phloia, Mueller. E. Muelleriana, A. W. Howitt, in Trans. Roy. Soc. Victoria, ii. pt. I, p. 89 (1 89 1) is a native of 

 Gippsland in Victoria, and is possibly identical with E. dextropinea, R. T. Baker, in Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S. Wales, 1898, 

 p. 417, t. n. 



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