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DESCRIPTION. 



LXVIIL E. unclnata, Tnrczaninow. 



PoLLOwiNG is the original description : — 



Eucalyjilus wicinata. Caulo, raniis, ramulisque teretibus cortice fusco ; foliis alternis petiolatis 

 lineari-lanceolatis, glauc sceiitibus, subpellucidoi-punctatis marginatis, basi Icnge attenuatis, apice in 

 acumen unciiiatuin productis ; capitulis iiuiltiHoris pedunculatis, inferioribus remotiusculis, supeiioribus 

 in racemum densiim coUectis ; ptdiinculis petioles subaequantibus : pedicellis fero nullis ; cupula turbinata 

 tereti aut vix angulosa ; operculo conico obtusiusculo cupulam subaequante slaminibus exsertis (albidis). 

 Alabastra parva, magnitudine illorum E. rohustae, folia 2—3 poll, longa, latitudine majore ih lin. noii 

 excedente. Drum. 3, n. 66. Turcz. in Bull. Soc. Nat. Moec, xxii, pt. 2, p. 23 (1849). 



It will be observed that tlie type is Xo. G6 of Drummond's third collection. 



This is repeated, word for A\ord, in Walpcrs' Anuales Botanices St/s(ematicic, 

 u, 620 (1843). 



It was then described by Eentham, in B.Fl. iii, 210, and afterwards figured 

 and described by Mueller in the " Eucalyptdgraphia." The narrow-leaved specimen 

 at the riglit of the plate is E. Ie2-)tuphylla, Miq. [E. oleom, F.v.M. ; var. leplophylla, 

 E.v.M.) — in other words, the narrow-leaved form of E tincinata. I have heard 

 doubts expressed as to the validity of E. uncinata as a species, but such doubts are 

 quite unnecessary. It is, however, not a very well-known species even yet, being 

 confused with other Malices. 



E. uncinata is one of the species in which the juvenile form of foliage often 

 remains side by side with the mature foliage. The leaf is often hcoked (uncinate), 

 but this is by no means a universal character. 



The anthers are not terminal truncate like those of E. melliodova, iiankulala 

 and others, but (see Tig. li, Plnte 02) of an allied and peculiar shape, for whicli I 

 propose the name semi-truncate. 



The kink in the filament is well exhibited in this species and does not occur 

 in the flowers of many others. 



VARIETIES. 



Bentham suggests three varieties : — 

 ]. Var. latifolia, Benth., Drummond, Ith Coll., No. 70 {B.FL iii, 210). 



I have had a drawing prepared of Urummond's specimen in the Cambridge 

 Uerbarium. A sulTicient portion is figured at 2a of Plate 02. It is not in 

 ripe fruit. 



I collcc(ed si^ccimcns from the Kalgan Plains, north of the Kalgan River, 

 Western Au^tralii, which match Drummond's specimen in every detail. It seems 

 to me a stunted, precocious form of the type, witli, on the same shrub or clumji of 

 shrubs, leaves of the normal width and leaves broad, and witli the pedicels absent or 

 nearly so. These shrubs flowered while the leaves Averc in the broad ojiposite-leaved 

 stale. Specimens are figured at 3a, 'Sli of Plate 02. 



