EUCALYPTUS CORNUTA. 



La Billardifere, Eelation du voyage k la recherche de La P(5rouse, i. 403, t. 20 (1799) ; English translation by Stockdale, 

 263-264, pi. 20 (1800) ; Novfe HoUandias plautarum specimen ii. 121 (1806) ; CandoUe, prodromus systematis 

 natiiralis regni vegetabilis iii. 216; Schauer in Lehmaim plantte Preissianfe i. 127; F. v. M., fragmenta phyto- 

 graphiie Australia ii. 39; Bentham, flora Australiensis iii. 234; F. v. M., select plants, 77 (1876) ; Indian edition 

 110 (ISSO) ; New South Wales edition 117 (1881) ; German edition, translated by Goeze, 139 (1883) ; American 

 edition (1SS3) ; Report on the Forest-Resources of Western Australia, 8, pi. 7. 



Finally tall ; leaves scattered, generally narrow-lanceolar, slightly curved or sometimes almost 

 sicMeshaped, of rather thick consistence and of nearly equal color on both sides ; their lateral 

 veins moderately spreading, not very prominent or quite faint, the circumferential vein somewhat 

 distant from the edge of the leaf ; oil-dots much concealed ; stalks of the inflorescence valid, 

 usually lateral, solitary or rarely two or few united, various in length but seldom very short, 

 cylindrical or considerably compressed, bearing from three to numerous flowers ; stalklets none or 

 very short; lid from a dilated base eylindric-hornshaped, several times longer than the semiovate or 

 somewhat hellshaped tube of the calyx; stamens not indexed before expansion, filaments yellow, as 

 well as the style very long; anthers narrow-ellipsoid, opening by longitudinal slits ; stigma hardly 

 broader than the summit of the style ; fruits closely crowded, free or slightly coherent at the base, 

 semiovate-bellshaped, oftener three- than four-celled ; rim narrow ; valves quite exserted, muck 

 elongated, from a broad turgid base very narrowly attenuated, towards the summit coherent ; seeds 

 without any apj)endage ; the sterile seeds not very narrow. 



From the vicinity of Geographe-Bay eastward at least to the neighbourhood of Cape Arid, 

 extending inland to the Stirling's Range. 



The " Yate," a tree of moderate size, when aged rising exceptionally to 100 feet, adapted for 

 poor soU, but preferring humid localities, occurring also on limestone-ground, thriving even in 

 moist tropical climes, and being so rapid in its development as to have made exceptionally as 

 much as 10 feet growth in one year. This tree is fit even for greatly exposed situations. The 

 bark of the upper part of the stem is often smooth and pale from lamellar secedence, but on the 

 lower portion of the stem or occasionally even highly upwards it is dark and rugged from complete 

 persistency, becoming sometimes as rough as that of the Ironbark-trees. 



Leaves on stalks of moderate or inconsiderable length, somewhat shining, occasionally verging 

 into an oval or oblong or linear-lanceolate form ; stomata sometimes reduced to 83,000 on the 

 upper and 120,000 on the lower side. General flowerstalks reaching exceptionally the length of 

 three inches. Lid attaining now and then a length of IJ inch, as shown on the illustrative plate 

 in a separate cluster of unojJened flowers at natural size. Stamens of large flowers to 1| inch long, 

 always quite straight in bud except slight flexuosities, as noted by the author in 1865. Anthers 

 f-l^ line long, fixed above the base. Fruits variable in size, not conspicuously angular in their 

 lower portion ; valves towards the summit far united and passing into the remnant of the style, 

 externally streaked particularly when aged, points of the valves wearing away finally, leaving the 

 summit of old fruits quite blunt. Fertile seeds only about one line long. The relation of 

 E. cornuta to its nearest allies has been discussed already in the article on E. occidentalis ; but 

 here should be added, that Eucalyptus Lehmanni (Preiss in Lehmann planta3 Preissianas i. 127 ; 

 E. maerocera, Turczaninow in Bulletin de la Soci(5t(5 des naturalistes de Moscou 1849, part ii. 20 ; 

 Sympliyomyrtus Lehmanni, Schauer in Lelimann plant. Preiss. i. 127) is specifically inseparable 

 from E. cornuta, although the description, as here offered for the latter, excludes the former. 

 Sir Joseph Hooker has given of this remarkable variety a splendid illustration in the bot. 

 magazine, 0140. Tlic only characteristic, wliic.li distances E. Lclimanui from E. cornuta, 



