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Following is Cavanilles' description : — 



Eucali/ptiis obltqims, 375. Eucalyptus foliis ovato-lanceolatis, nervo unico ramoso, nei'vulis ad 

 ipsum raris : uinbellis axillaribus. In hac specie folia non videntur coriacea ; ncrvuli adsurgutit 

 formantque angulum acutum cum nervo principali : umbellae quinqueflorae : et calyptra hemisphaerica. 

 Videtur eadem species quam D. do Lamarck figuravit tab. 422, ill. gen. cujus dcscriptionem nondum 

 evulgavit. (Cav. Ic, Vol. IV, p. 2.5, 1797). 



Lamarck's figure is practically a copy of L'.lleritier's, Avitli the details 

 arranged differently on the smaller-sized plate of Lamarck's work. 



Link, in the following brief description, attributed the species to Smith, and 

 quotes Willdenow's JEiiume ratio : — 



218. E. ohliqua, Smith, W. R., 515. Fol. ut in pr. parum breviora, ultra 2' lata. Pedunculi 

 breves 1" longi axillares 6 flori ; pedicolli brevi.isimi. (Link. Unum. Berol. ii, 30.) 



The species is likewise attributed to Smith in the following lal)el in Herb. 

 Calcutta: — "Eucalyptus ohliqua, Smith, Serres de M. Noisette, 6 Aout, ]816." 

 This specimen is E. obliqiia, L'llerit. 



Pollowing is Ilofi'mansegg's brief reference to the species, which is given 

 here to save botanists searching after this rare work : — 



(130.) Encali/jitus ohliqua. Male in Willd. fuliorum nulla mentio, iil quod in Link Enum. 

 probe emendatuui. (Hoffmg. Yfrz. I'fl. Xwhlr. 2, p. 111.) 



It will be found to be fully defined in Bentham's " Elora Australicnsis " 

 (iii. 20-i), and in Mueller's "Eucalyptographia." 



Vernacular liauies. — It is usually known as " Stringy bark " in Tasmania 

 and South Australia, and to a less extent in Victoria ; in the last State, however, it 

 is usually known as "Messmate," because it is associated or mess-mates with other 

 stringybarks and fibrous-barked eucalypts. The same name is in use in southern 

 New South Wales, as for instance at Sugar Loaf Mountain, Braidwood, and at 

 Tantawangio Mountain, near Cathcart. Apparently this is the most widely used 

 name for it in New South Wales, and the term " Stringybark" does not seem to be 

 usually applied to it in this State. 



Because it is usually rough-barked to th.e ends of the branches, it sometimes 

 goes by the name of "Woolly-topped Messmate" in the Braidwood district (Monga, 

 &c.). Other names are "Bastard Stringybark," "Woolly Butt," "Woolly Bark," 

 and ''White Stringybark," all in use in New England, New South Wales. For 

 a note on the use of the terms Brown and White Stringybark in Tasmania, 

 see p. 54. 



Cotyledon leave.S. — Small, reniform to obtusely quadrangular, glabrous, 

 triplinerved, thin, more or les.s suffused with purple. 



