EUCALYPTUS CAPITELLATA. 



generally smaller, more truncated and with narrower rim ; when the latter occurs broader, then 

 the similarity of the fruit-calyx to that of E. htemastoma becomes more obvious. On the whole 

 E. eugeuioides seems as much allied to E. capitellata as to E. piperita ; and although the latter 

 sjjecies is more similar in leaves and flowers, it appears to be always quite different in fruit, 

 reminding in the narrowness of the rim as well as in the enclosed fruit-valves rather of E. obliqua. 

 The variety brachycorys, doubtfully referred by Bentham to E. macrorrhyncha, from New England 

 (near Timbarra) at elevations of about 2,000 feet, may possibly be a form of E. capitellata, with 

 which it shares the blunt lid, though the calyces are attenuated into distinct and slender 

 stalklets ; but the bark of this tree, though stringy, is said to be separating in patches, and 

 curiously enough the tree is locally called Spotted Gum-tree. The fruits are rather more 

 depressed. Expanded flowers remained unknown. 



This species might with advantage be reaxed in wet sand-lands. 



Although the recognition of the Eucalypts, as among the most important of trees for 

 Hardwood-culture, belongs only to the researches of the second half of the presen^j secular period, 

 still nearly all the most celebrated species of this genus, though the most extensive of that of 

 timber-trees in the whole British Empire, became descriptively known in phytographic science 

 already at the end of the last and at the beginning of the present century ! So it was with the 

 species here now anew defined and with E. obliqua, on which the genus was established, among 

 leading Stringybark-trees ; — so with E. tereticornis, which includes as a variety our famous Red 

 Gum-tree, — so with E. marginata, yielding the almost imperishable Yarrah-timber, — so with 

 E. globulus, our Blue Gum-tree of unparalleled celerity of growth among Hardwood-trees, — so 

 with E. amygdalina, which (with E. diversicolor) ranks as probably the loftiest of all trees of the 

 globe ! The long neglect of trees of such marvellous value, must now-a-days appear to us almost 

 unaccountable and enigmatical. 



Explanation of Analytic Details. — 1, summit of calyx, lid detacheJ ; 2, longitudinal section of a flowerbud ; 

 3 and 4, front- and back-view of anther ; 5, style ; 6, longitudinal section of fruit ; 7, transverse section of fruit ; 

 8 and 9, sterile and fertile seeds; 10, embryo; 11, the same uncoiled; 13, portion of a leaf; aU but variously 

 magnified. 



