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DESCRIPTION. 



E. marginata, Sm. 



Trans. Linn. Soc. vi, 302 (1802). B.ri. iii, 209. 



TiGURED and descril)e(l in " Eucalyptograpliia." See also Diels and Pritzel, 

 Engler's Jahrb., 1904, p. 43S. 



A full account of its economic uses will be found in jMaidcn's " Useful Native 

 Plants of Australia" (1889). 



Following is the original description : — 



Marginata, operculo conico magnitudinc calycis, umbellis lateralibus, foliis ovatis niargine incrassatis. 

 E. marginata, Donn. Herb. Cant. cd. 2. 101 (?) 



Mr. Alton f.avoured me with specimens of this plant three years ago from Kew Gardens. Tlie 

 seeds were brought from Port Jackson. Its leaves agree very much in form with those of E. rohusla 

 (next to which it ought to be placed), but the foot-stalks are shorter, veins more prominent, and tlie margin 

 more thickened, somewhat cartilaginous, and reddish. The umbels are .solitary, axillary, and simple- 

 Flowers scarcely one-third the size of the robusta, and their co\'ers arc neither broader than the calyx, 

 nor longer ; neither are they contracted in the middle. The flowers much resemble those of my E. pihdaris, 

 but the leaves are totally difi'crcut. 



Alton, Horlus Keioensis, iii, 192, calls it " Tliick-edged Eucalyptus," and 

 stated that it was introduced to Kev\% in 1794, by seeds obtained from Archibald 

 Menzies, Esq. 



Menzies was with Captain Vancouver, who visited South-western Australia, 

 and discovered King George's Sound in 1791. No other portion of Australia was 

 visited by the expedition, and Smith's statement that the seeds came from Tort 

 Jackson is probably a mere slip of the pen or a misunderstanding of what Alton 

 told him. The matter is also discussed by Mueller {'Eucalyptorjraphia) under 

 E. marginata, and there is no doubt that E. marginala, Sm., is tlic West Australian 

 Jarrah. 



SYNONYMS. 



1. E. pedicellata, 11. Br. MSS. or "Archd. Menzies" — perhaps as collector 

 only — in Herb. Brit. Museum. 



2. E.floribunda, Hiigel, Eniim. PL Ililyel, p. 49 (1837). 

 Type from " Swan Elver." 



3. E. hypoleuca, Schauer in Lehmann's P/. Preiss. No. 131 (1814). Preiss. 

 No. 226. 



The type came from Wuljenup, district of PlantagtMiot, 



