I would point out that early descriptions of Eucalyptus and other plants 

 were often vague, and I have had, in some cases, to appeal to herbarium specimens 

 and other less certain, collateral evidence, to decide what is intended as a species. I 

 frequently hear that zoologists are in a similar situation. I think it would place a 

 dangerous power in the hands of any man to enable him to pass over these imperfect 

 early descriptions, especially when they are supported, as in the present case, by 

 authentically named herbarium specimens deposited iinder proper safeguards, in 

 important herbaria. 



Many of Sieber's names have been accepted from herbarium labels only. 

 Schauer adopted Cunningham's names and described the plants, rectifying 

 Cunningham's omission to describe them. In 1859, Mueller's act in fully 

 describing E. biGolo<\ A. Cunn., shows that he had no wish to suppress Cunningham's 

 name. 



I therefore, after the most careful consideration, have decided to follow 

 Bentham in adopting the name E. hicolor, A. Cunn. (B.Fi. iii, 214). 



SYNOiNYMS. 



[a) Prefatory Note on E. bicoloi\ WooUs (also R. T. Baker), not A. Cunn. 



1. E. pendula. Page (?). 



2. E. pendula, A. Cunn. 



3. E. largijlorens, F.v.M. • 



4. E. hcemastoma, Miq. 



Note on («) E. parviflora, F.v.M. ; (6), E. bicolor, Duff (parfim). 

 (a) Prefatory Note on E. bicolor, WooUs (also R. T. Baker), not A. Cunn. 



In many instances it is impossible to classify Eucalypts on the shape of fruits, anthers, buds, and 

 leaves, arid in this connection is mentioned the case of E. bicolor* and E. 2>e>i(hda] of A. Cunningham. 

 It has been customary in recent times to synonymise these species under the name of E. largifloreiis, 

 F.v.M. Now Cunningham, who was a field botanist, and who was familiar with these trees, named the 

 bastard box of Cabramatta E. bicolor* a tree with a dark box bark on the stem, and with clear white 

 limbs, and having a light brown-coloured timber, whilst the " Coolabah " of the interior he named 

 E. pendula, i from its drooping habit. This tree has a red-coloured timber, and a box-bark extending to 



the ultimate branches. The oils of the two trees are also quite distinct If placed under 



E. largiflorenii,\ then there would be the anomaly of having under one species a tree with two kinds of 

 bark, two kinds of timber, two kinds of oil, and a variation in leaves. — (R. T. Baker, Proc. A. A. A S. 

 Melbourne, 1900, p. 230.) 



• E. lionhloana, F.v.M. 



+ E. bicolor, A. Cuim. 



X E- bicolor, A. Cunn., is a sj'nonyni of E. lartjiflorenK, F.v.M. 



