580 BU!,LKri.N DK l/aKllÜlKli ItOiSSIKK (i''"" SiCR.). (ü) 



Eucalyptus rostrata Schlecht.. Llntuea XX, 655. 



a. K. aciniiinata lluuk. 



E. brachiipoda Tnivz. 

 h. E. loufiirostria F. v. M. 

 c. K. i'xsi'rla F. v. M. 



(1. /::. canialdiiknsis Deiiuli. in Cal. PI. Ilorl. C/nnald. Ed. II. 1820. 

 e. E. ioibulala A. Gray, non A. Ciiiin. 



a. E. cK'wnhiata Hook, in Mitchell, Journ. Troy. Austral., oÜO. 

 Description. — « Foliis alternis petiolatis lauceoiatis longe acumi- 



iiatis subai'i.statis penninerviis glaucis reticulatis, nervis lateralibus a 

 mai'gine remotiusculis. fioribus umbellatis (4-6 floris), umbellis pedun- 

 culatis, calycis tubo homispherico iupedicellum graciiem attenuato, 

 ealyptra conico acuminato calycis tubum superante ». 



Bentham (B. Fl. IIL 241) states that this form approaches the variety 

 hrevirostris, F. v. M. of E. tereticornis (? of rostrata). 



SPECIMENS EXAMINE!) 



1. « Nov. 20. 1846. N° 4.B5. « Yarrow' » of the blacks. Siib-tropical 

 New Holland. Lient. Col. Sir J. L. Mitchell. Encah/ptus acuminata 

 Hooker, 472 »). Herl). Cant. ex herb. Lindl. 



2. Spécimen in Herb. Miquel. 



3. « D'- Bohr. N" 1376. Sud Australie, 184S ». 

 The two latter in Herb. Barbey-Boissier. 



b. E. loHfjirostris F. v. M. ex Miq. in Ned.'Kruidk ArcJi.YV (1856), 125. 

 Description. — 5. E. longirostris Ferd. Müll. Herb. — E. rostrata 



Schlech., Linruea. XX, p. 655, n. 176, haud Cavanilles. 



« Fréquenter in planitiebus et montibus humilioribus v. c? Mount 

 Burke Range, Lofty Range, Beagle Bange, Salt Creek. a lîed Gum 

 tree » colonorum. Fl. lestate. Folia 3-6 poU. longa V2- fere 1 lata, haud 

 crasse coriacea ». 



5. forma hrevirostris, Müll, rostro breviore : see j). 571 (3). 



Ad Glenelg river (F. M.j. 



c. E. exserta F. v. M., Joum. Luin. Soc. III (1859). B. Fl. III. 241. 

 Somo of Oldfields spécimens from Murchisou River, W. A. labelied 



E. rostrata Schlecht, by Muellcr, altered by Bentham to E. exserta, are 

 in Her])iei' Bai-l)ey-Boissier. I have seen other spécimens and cannotsee 

 liow E. exserta can be sopai-ated from E. rostrata, I have seen speci- 



* " Varra » is aiiolln'i' siirliiiiL'. 



