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Les feuilles dans Ips jeinips plantes de cet Eiiralyptu!', de meme que dans plusieurs autres especesdu 

 meme mnre qui se cultivent a Malmaison, sont oppos^o-', et affectent une forme entierement differetite de 

 oelle des memes individus plus avances dans leur vegetation. 



Les Kucaiyptuif oirient une nouvelle richessc au midi de I'Empire. M. Martin, savant estimable, 

 directeur du jardin botanique de Toulon, a mis depuis plusieurs annees, en pleine teire, un petit pied 

 d'Eiicah/ptus qu'il avoit re^ii de Malmaison. Cette jilante, que j'ai vue dans 1 ete de 1813, avoit acquis plus 

 de vinct pieds de hauteur, et etoit, pour la premiere fois, couverte de fruits bien nourris. Cette seule 

 experience prouve que les Eucalyptus ppiivent croitre avec I'olivier, les grenadier.*, les citronier.*!, et 

 d'autres arbres utiles de nos provinces m^iidionales. 



L'Eucalyptus cultive par M. Martin nous paroit etre le meme que VEuc ilyptus divers i/nli a. Les 

 petites differences que j'observe entre I'^chantillon de cette plante, que j'ai cueilli a Toulon, et Ips pieds que 

 je cultive k Malmaison, semblent etre produites par le changement de culture ou par le climate. (Descr. 

 PI. Jard. Mal.iiiaison, 3-5, 1813.) See also DO. Prod, iii, 220 ; " M^m sur les Eucalyptus introduits dans 

 la renion Mediterraneenne," par C. Nau<lin (.H?MtaZ«s des Sciences Nnturelles, 6' S^rie Bot., t. xvi (No. 6), 

 p. 413 (1883) ; " Description et emploi des Eucalyptus introduits en Europe, principalement en France et 

 en Algerie." C. Naudin. Antibes 1891, p. 50. 



It is described by Bentham (B.Fl. iii, 20G), and I proceed to amplify his 

 description : — 



Usually a tall, Mallee-like shruh, with smooth, ribbony hark, but stated to occasionally attain 

 tree size. 



Lpaves. — Oblong or lancenlatp, acute or acuminate, mostly utider 3 inches and often nearly .straight, 

 very thick and rigid, scarcely showing the oblique veins. 



PetllinclcS. — Axillary or lateral, short, terete or angular, each bearing 3 to 8 rather large flowers 

 on very short pedicels. 



Calj'X-tube. — Short and open, above 2 lines diameter. 



Opevcillum. — Conical, sometimes quite rostrate. 



StameuS. — At least 3 lines long ; anthers reniform, with diverging confluent cells (see below). 



Fl'Uit. — The fruit displays great variation in size, shape, and sculpture. It is often warted. It is 

 subcylindrical or conoid to nearly globular, from scarcely more than |-inch to |-inch in diameter. The 

 fruit sometimes, but not always, contracted at the orifice, the rim broad, usually convex (sometimes hori- 

 zontal) and always prominent, the valves sunk or slightly protruding. 



The prominence of the rim varies a good deal, that of Drumnioiid's No G-i (Bentham's E. pachi/hvia) 

 being quite domed. A specimen from Stirling Range, West Australia, has an even broader lim, even 

 broader than the calyx, the fruit being markedly globular. The rim often has a well-marked groove, 

 sometimes two. 



It is again described (as £1. santalifulia) and also fignred by Mueller in 

 " Eucalyptographia." In this work he states that : — 



The cardinal characteristic of E. santahfolia rests in the position of the stamens before their expan- 

 sion : then through a simple turn the lower portion of the filaments remains df-ciunbent, whereas 'he upper 

 part becomes erect, but in no way the filaments are reduplicated. Such ])eculiar curvature of the stamens, 

 while in bud, is not known to exist in any other species of Eucalyptus, although an approach to such a 

 staminal sestivation is offered by E. Planchoniana. All other species, in which the stamens are not 

 distinctly doubled back in their early state, namely E. gomphocephnla, E. Oldjieldii, E. sidi-rophloia, 

 E. ifreticurnis, E. sahnoiwphloia, as well as E. cornuta and its allies, have the filaments in bud either 

 straight or turned differently to those of E. santahfulia. 



The section of the bud at Fig. 2 of the illustration is somewhat diagrammatic, 

 but it essentially represents the position of the stamens before expansion in fresh 

 Victorian specimens, for example. I am not in a position, without further investi- 

 gation, to say whether this arrangement of the unexpanded stamens is " the cardinal 

 characteristic " of the species, which would involve examination of an enorrnous 

 amount of material. 



