EUCALYPTUS PELTATA. 



different, the former being only as yet known in an unexpended state and the latter having never 

 yet been collected at all. 



The very short descriptive phrase, given from mere leaves, of E. melissiodora in Mitchell's 

 Tropical Australia, p. 235, led me at first to assume (Journal of the Linnean Society iii. 95), that 

 it was the species here now more fully described, which Lindley had before him ; but a comparison 

 of the specimen, imperfect as it is, in Sir Thomas Mitchell's collection, suggested to Mr. Bentham, 

 that E. melissiodora might merely constitute the young state of E. citriodora, and this has since 

 been confirmed through local observation by Dr. E. Wuth, whose attention I directed to this 

 subject. In dealing with E. maculata in this work and then reducing, in concurrence with 

 Mr. Bailey, botli E. citriodora and melissiodora to that species as varieties, also E. peltata was by 

 a writing error added to the synonyms. It is however well marked, as noticed by myself already 

 in 1856 on the sources of the south-eastern rivers of Carpentaria, by the remarkable texture and 

 structure of the bark, in which respect it bears resemblance only to E. phceuicea and E. miniata, 

 constituting with them the section of Lepidophloiro in the cortical system. (See Journal of the 

 Linnean Society iii. 101.) 



E. peltata seems to be the only species of this extensive genus, which in an adult state has 

 leaves with suprabasal insertion. The appellation " Yellow Jacket " is not solely applied to this 

 species, but also to E. ochrophloia. 



EXPLANATION OP ANALYTIC DETAILS. 1, unexpanded flower, outer and inner lid lifted ; 2, longitudinal 

 section of an unexpandod flower ; 3, some stamens in situ ; 4 and 5, front- and back-view of an anther, with portion 

 of its filament ; 6, style and stigma ; 7 and 8, transverse and longitudinal section of a fruit ; 9, sterile seeds ; all 

 magnified, but to various extent. 



