EUCALYPTUS TODTIANA. 



F. V. M. in Wing's Southern Science Record ii., August (1882). 



Arborescent, but not tall; leaves scattered, rather small, rigid, narrow-lanceolar, slightly 

 curved, almost equilateral, shiaing on both sides, scarcely paler beneath ; their veins pinnately 

 spreading, much immersed, the circumferential vein only slightly removed from the edge ; oil- 

 pores concealed ; flower-staJks axillary, rather long, not much compressed, bearing generally from 

 4 to 7 flowers ; stalklets none or exceedingly short; calyces longitudinally streaked, their tube 

 semiovate, attenuated at the base, not much longer than the hemispheric lid ; stamens all fertile, 

 with exception of some of the outermost iaflexed before expansion ; anthers nearly heartshaped, 

 anteriorly dehiscent by longitudinal upwards confluent slits ; stigma not dilated ; fruits rather 

 large, nearly globular or truncate-ovate, their margin thin; valves three, enclosed, very short; 

 sterUe seeds mostly broad; fertile seeds expanding laterally into a hroadish transparent 

 membrane. 



Near the Greenough- and Arrowsmith-Eiver on sandy Ridges (F. v. M.) ; in the vicinity of 

 the Moore-Eiver (J. Forrest). 



A small tree, with a bark not dissimilar to that of E. patens. Branchlets slightly angular. 

 Leaves mostly 2-3^ inches long, 5-9 lines broad, gradually narrowed into a rather short stalk, 

 thinly short-pointed. Flowerstalks -J-l inch long, not recurved. Stalklets when present com- 

 paratively thick. Tube of the flowering calyx hardly g inch long. Filaments yellowish-white. 

 Anthers whitish, blunt or retuse. Style much exceeded in length by the stamens. Fruits ^| of 

 an inch long, streaked, outside not shining, of rather greyish color, conspicuously contracted or 

 sometimes more widened at the orifice, the lining disk there towards the margin ascending but 

 towards the opening horizontal ; placental column twice or thrice as long as broad. Sterile seeds 

 rather large, not very numerous, generally not much longer than broad, brown or blackish, 

 angular, often compressed, 1-1^ line long ; fertile seeds very few, pale-brown, measuring with 

 addition of the membranous expansion 2-2| lines, the surrounding membrane on the summit of 

 the nucleus very short or there not developed. 



This Eucalyptus ajiproaches systematically to E. buprestium, from which it chiefly difi'ers in 

 thicker and smaller leaves with the perij)heric vein nearer to the margin, in thicker flowerstalks, 

 in fewer flowers together but of larger size and not placed on thin stalklets, in proportionately 

 longer lid, in anthers not broader than long with more extended but far less divergent slits, 

 in the ampler orifice of the fruit with thinner edge and higher inserted as also broader valves, and 

 in the fertile seeds expanding into a broader and paler membrane. The differences of E. patens 

 consist in that species having thinner leaves, shorter flowerstalks, narrower anthers and smaller 

 fruits ; besides it attains as a tree to much greater dimensions. 



This species bears the name of Mr. Emil Todt, whose artistic talent became devoted only to 

 illustrating plants at a venerable age, when most of those, engaged in such pursuits, have ceased 

 to work professionally. Therefore all the more praise is due to this gentleman for the youthful 

 ardour, which he still brought to bear on the extensive furtherance of the present publication. 



This species, like many others of small size, is i^erhaps not of any technic importance, but 

 would yield fuel in localities too arid for numerous otlier kinds of Eucalypts. The relative value 

 of the wood of various Eucalyptus-species for charcoal has not yet been ascertained with 

 exactitude. Among West Australian woods the comparatively light one of E. marginata is 

 regarded as the best for coal. Although no kind of Eucalyptus-wood can rival with the woods of 



