u6 EUCAL YPTUS. 



the tree which we have identified as a sport or variety of 

 Eucalyptus botryoides that has also a decorticating bark. 

 The buds and fruit in Eucalyptus botryoides are markedly 

 angular and more crowded together, and the bark of the 

 one specimen that decorticate comes off in long strips. 

 Eucalyptus saligna has a good reputation as a timber tree 

 and has proved here a fast grower but is very shy in flow- 

 ers or fruits at Santa Monica. 



EUCALYPTUS TETRAPTERA, 



This tree is a dwarf with very thick long scattered 

 sickle-shaped leaves. The flowers are pendent, very large, 

 solitary and quite numerous. The tube of the calyx is 

 very angular, in fact winged. At Santa Monica the calyx 

 tube and the stalk just before the cap falls become a bril- 

 liant crimson, and are by far the most striking part of the 

 flower. The stamens are comparatively short and of a dark 

 red, the anthers are purple. 



EUCALYPTUS MINIATA, 



I have elsewhere alluded to Eucalyptus miniata as 

 shrubby. It, however, grows to be a tree of seventy or 

 more feet in height. It has crimson flowers and often a 

 silvery white bloom on the foliage. The leaves are some- 

 what paler beneath. It is a native of the tropical part of 

 Australia. The tree has not, to my knowledge, be^en in- 

 troduced here, but certainly deserves to be tried. 



Mr. Walter Gill has furnished me a note on Eucalyptus 

 hemiphloia, which it is too late to put in its proper place. 



