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3. E. persicifolia, DC. 



Following is a copy oi' the original description : — 



(Lodd. Jjiil. Cah., t. 501). Oiierculo coiiico cupula paulo breviore, peduuculis a.xillaribus et latioribus 

 ancipitibus potioli loiigitudine, pedicellis brevibus compressis, foliis oblongi.s basi attenuatis apice 

 acuminatis nervulo margine, subparallelo tenuis.simo iiotatis. Nova Hollandia. Folii petiolus 4 5 lin. 

 longus, lamina 3 jaoll. longa, G lin. lata. TJmbella; 8-10-flora\ 3 foliis paulo latioribus, pedunoulis 

 brevioribus Eucalyptus, iiieh., plant, exs. Nov. lloll. n. 593 (v.s. ). v. foliis paulo longioribus pedunoulis 

 petiolum paululum oxcedentibus. E. incrassata, Sieb., })lant exs. Nova HolL n. 477 E. muUiflora, Poir. 

 suppl. 2, p. 594? (v.s.). (Prod, iii, 217.) 



De Candolle, theiefore, states that the umbels are 8-10 flowered. He quotes 

 two varieties : — 



(a) With broader leaves and shorter peduncles. Sieber's No. 593. 



(b) With longer leaves, and the peduncles slightly exceeding the petioles. This 

 is Sieber's No. 477, and is stated to be U. multiJJora, Poir. 



A specimen in Ilerb. Barbey-Boissier in bud and leaf only bears the label, 

 " Eucalyptus persicifolia, Lodd., DC. De la Nouvelle Hollaude, M. Sieber, 1825, 

 No. 593." The leaves are broader than specimens of No. 477 in the same 

 herbarium, but I can sec no other difference. 



Specimens of Nos. 477 and 593 in the Berlin Herbarium are so similar that I 

 cannot detect any difference between them, and they also are referable, in my 

 opinion, to E, pilularis. 



These specimens are all in bud only, and there is no doubt that the 

 resemblance to specimens of E. siderophloia in bud is considerable, and deceived 

 Mueller ; Bentham followed him. 



Mr. Backhouse, the Quaker botanical traveller, collected E. pilularis at 

 Elizabeth Bay, Sydney, in February, 1836, and labelled it " E. persicifolia." The 

 specimens are at Kew. The late Rev. Dr. Woolls and other botanists, who worked 

 prior to the publication of Vol. Ill of the Flora Atislraliensis, used to style the 

 blackbutt E. persicifolia . 



4. E. incrassata, Sieb. 



Following is De Caudolle's descrijitiou of this species : — 



" Foliis paulo longioribus (than E. persicifolia, Lodd.), pedunculis petiolum paululum excedentibus. 

 E. iyicrassata, Sieb., 2)lant. exs. nov. Holl., n. 477. E. muUiflora, Poir., suppl. 2, p. 594 (?)" {Prod, iii, 

 217). It is identical, of course, with E. jwrslcifolia, DC. 



An original specimen of Sieber's No. 477 in Herb. Barbey-Boissier bears the 

 following additional label : — " Eucalyphis incrassata, Sieb. De la Nouvelle 

 Hollaude, Sieber, 1825." On the same label was added a little later, " Eucalyptus 

 p)ersicifoUa, Lodd., v.y., DC." 



Like other specimens of No. 477, it is in leaf and biul only, and is E.inlnlaris. 



