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DESCRIPTION. 



CXIV. E. pulveridenta Sims, 



With t. 20S7, Eo f . Mag. 1819. 

 Following is the original description : — 



Operculo hemispluviieo, foil's oppositis orbiculato-cordatis integerriinis subcucullalis pulverulentis, 

 pedunoulis triiloris axillaribus cum Qoribus folia brevioribus. 



It was of course accompanied by a plate. Sims designated it " Heart-leaved 

 Eucalyptus." 



It was then described by Bentham in the Flora Auslraliensis, B.F1. iii, 223, 

 with the note that "F. Mueller (Fragm. ii, 70) considers this to be the same as his 

 JS. cinerea, but as far as our specimens go, it appears to differ in the foliage, in the 

 larger sessile flowers, and in the larger thicker fruit with a very prominent thick 

 rim." 



Mueller did not change his opinion, and in his " Eucalyptographia " figured, 

 as E. pulverulenta Sims, his own E. cinerea. Subsequently Mr. 11. IT. Cambage 

 rediscovered it, for it is a very local species, and it was identified as E. pulvigera A. 

 Cunn. ; and by Messrs. Baker and Smith as the original E. pulverulenta of Sims, 

 thus confirming Bentham's contention. 



As regards the "Eucalyptographia," not only did Mueller figure E. 

 cinerea as E. pulverulenta, as already narrated, but he figured E. cinerea as E. 

 Sluarliana. 



SYNONYMS. 



]. E. pulvigera A. Cunn. 



In Allan Cunningham's Manuscript Journal of a journey to Bathurst, p. 8, 

 is the following entry : — 



Cox's River, 8th Oct., 1822. A species of Eucalyptus related to cordala, Labill., also afforded me 

 l'.ickI specimens, viz. : — 



E. ful ritj, ra fruticosa albo-'glauceacens, operculo bcmisplierico aculo foliis oppositis so ssilibus basi 

 Bubconnatis suborbiculatis retu is, apice cuspidatis margino incrassatis uudulatis, umbellis axillaribus pedi- 

 ccllatis •"> floria oppositifolius, pedicellia brevissimis teretibus. 



A large shrub about * feel high. 



Subsequently in Barron Field's "Geographical Memoirs on New South 

 Wales," p. 350 (1825), he described it under the name E. pulvigera in the Following 

 words : — 



Fruticosa, albo-glaucescexi . operculo liemisphserico acuto, Eoliia oppositis seesilibus liasi Bubconnatis 

 suborbiculatis retusis, apice cuspidatis, margine incrassatis undulatis, umbellis axillaribus pedicellai is 8- 

 uoris, pedicellis brevi irai teretibus. Near Cox's River. 



