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" Sieber's No. 600. Short diagnosis, might perhaps do for either albens or 

 deulbula. I have not seeii it." (Bentham in B. Y\. Ill, 200.) 



Specimens labelled " ^. i^aUens, DC, Broken Eivcr," in Mueller's hand- 

 Avriting, in Herb.. Kew, are TJ. iKViiiphoia, A-ar. (ilhen.^!. 



2. E. procera, J)elinb. 



Eucalyptus procera, Dchnli., E. foliis late-ovatis loiigissiiiiis obliqui.s curiaoei.s parallele veiiosis 

 nuirginatisve subcrenulatis utrinque glanduliferi.s apice uncinatis, petiolis murioatis coloratis, ramulis 

 teretibus glandulifcris rubicundi.s. 



Cortice laevi aestivo tempore in scju.iinas secedeiite Nov. Holl. 



(Dehnhardt, CaUiIogu-s plcmtanim Jiorti Camalditleiisis. Ed. II, 1832, p. 20.)* 



Bentham (B. El., iii, 200), "wlio had not seen any specimens, speaks of the 

 description as "far too imperfect to render identilication possible." 



I have seen some excellent specimens, in bud, flower, and ripe fruit, 

 communicated by Dehnhardt himself to the Vienna herbarium (Herb. Mus. Caes. 

 Palat. Vindob.), which show that the sjoecies is E. ohliqua, L'Herit. The label 

 states that the tree (Hort. Camaldul.) was raised from "unknown seed," and that 

 the tree (? that from which the original seed was taken) was 70 feet high. The 

 seed probably came from Tasmania. 



Eollowing is Walpiers' descri])tion : — 



Eucahjplus proccr.i, Dehnhardt, he, p. 174. — Operculo hemispha'iicu niucrouulato, calyce breviore ; 

 pcdiinculis subancijjitib., umbeHis lateralib., .j-9-floris parvis ; foil, alternis ovato-lanceolatis longis.siiiiis 

 obliquis falcatis coriaceis parallele venosis, apice uncinatis, margine subcrenulatis integerriinisve, juniorib., 

 utrinq., glandulifcris ; ramis teretib. rubicundis. Crescit in Nova Hollandia. (Walpers' Jiepertorium 

 Botaniccs isijstematica', ii, p. 164.) 



Mueller (in " Eucalyptographia," under U. iniuciJJora) quoting Walpers' 

 wording of the description of the speeies, refers it to paucijlora {conacea), but the 

 specimens set the matter at rest. 



3. E. gigantea, Hook.. f.+ 



N. sp. ; rami.s ramulisque hevibus elongatis gracilibus, foliis alterni.s sublonge petiolatis amplis 

 oblique curvatis ovato-lanceolatis louge acuminatis basi valde insequalibus costa distincta, nervis lateralibus 



* The following information about Hortus Camaldulensis is abbreviated from Dehnhardt's Preface to Ed. 2, of the 

 Cal. PI. Hort. Camaldulensis (1832). 



The hills of the Vomer (Plouglisliare), and of the district of Camalduli, beneath wliicli lies tlie city (Naples), are 

 foremost amongst the most picturesque parts of Campania. The climate is especiallj' mild. On tliose hills the Count of 

 Camalduli has an immense farm, and excellently laid out gardens. The variety and plenteousness of the trees and 

 vegetation — products both of practical utility and of pure delight — dr.aw crowds of inhabitants and strangers ; the immense 

 size and joyous sliapes of the truly exotic plants only to be found elsewhere in hot-houses, and which here are planted in 

 the open air as though native of the soil, must cause the greatest delight and wonder in the spectator. 



The following particulars about the Count are given in his preface to Ed. I (1S29), and from the last sentence it 

 would appear that Dehnhardt was superintendent or head gardener of this garden : — "After the Count of Camalduli, 

 Franciscus Riccardi, had obtained permissi.-n to retire from the ."iplendid position whose duties he had most diligently 

 performed, he withdrew to the beautiful hills of the Ploughshare and of Camalduli. The garden attached to the country 

 house (described in poetry by those most noble knights Angelo M. Riccio, in the vernacular, and Jaoobo Farina, President 

 of the Supreme Court, in Latin), were given me to lay out and beautify." 



f E. ijigantea, Dehnh., is E. rjtohiiliis, Labill. 



