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DESCRIPTION. 



CIV. E. cordata, LabilL 



Nov. Holl. PI. ii, 13, t. 152 (18')n) (the toothing of the leaves being rather 

 too accentuated) in tlie following words : — 



Eucalyptus operculo hemia[)haBtico, mucronato, folius oppositis, sessilibus, cordatis, erenatis. 



Arlx)!' procera, raiiiulis teretiusculis, ssepius glaucis ut folia ovato-cordata, vix acuminata, 

 decussatim opposita, patentia. Capituli ut plurimum triflori, pedunculo comnuini seniitereti, florum 

 longitudine, opei'culo brevi. Calyx turbinatus. Stylus brevior staminibus ; stigma obtusuni. Capsula 

 obovata, immersa, tri ad quadriloculai'Ls. Cieterum ut in prifcedentibus. Habitat in capite Van-Diemen. 



It was then described in Hook, f., Fl. Tas. i, 132; also in B.Fl. iii, 224 and 

 Encalyptographla , the leaves perhaps being figured a little too crenate in the 

 latter work. 



It is figured in Bot. Mag. t. 7835, and also in the Gardeners' Chronicle for 

 12th March, 1910. 



Notes Supplementary to the Description. 



It is a tree up to 50 feet in height. The bark is not described in the Flora 

 Avstraliensis. 



" Bark of stem comparatively thin, solid, outside but very slightly wrinkled, 

 dark coloured and mai'ked with whitish blotches." [Eucalyptoyrapliia) . 



T^^odwixy (Tasmania)/, F^orfl) says the tree rarely exceeds 20 feet, and that 

 its bark is smooth. 



RANGE. 



It is confined to Tasmania. 



It was originally found in Recherche Bay by Lubillardiere, whence the type 

 specimens were obtained and described by the finder. This locality is in the 

 extreme south of Tasmania, and although Mueller {Encalyptoyraphifi) says Robert 

 Brown, Hooker, Gunn, Stephens and Abbott all found it in the same locality, I 

 have not seen the evidence to that effect. 



After Labillardiere, Gunn found it. I have a specimen labelled by him, 

 " Huon Mountain, North-west River, collected 27th October, 1839." This was 

 before Dr. i afterwards Sir Joseph) Hooker arrived in Hobart, and Gunn probably 

 showed growing plants to him. 



