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erroneously included other species (see my Crit. Rev., xxviii., 

 172). He also furnished a description of E. santalifolia, 

 F. v. M., at B. Fl., iii., 206, and additional notes at pp. 217 

 and 230, which are explained in my Crit. Rev., vii., pp. 199, 

 200. Some of his material was probably mixed. 



4. The French botanist Naudin, who had access both to 

 Bonpland's original specimens of E. diversifolia and to the 

 progeny therefrom, wrote two papers: — 



(a) "Memoire sur les Eucalyptus introduits dans la 

 region Mediterraneenne." Ann. des Sc. Nat., 6° Ser. Bot . 

 t. xvi. (No. 6), p. 413 (1883). 



(b) "Description et emploi des Eucalyptus introduits o±x 

 Europe, principalement en France et en Algerie." Antibes, 

 1891. 



(a) is quoted as 1st Mem. and (b ) as 2nd Mem. 



Naudin's remarks are valuable, not only because of his 

 valuable contributions to a knowledge of the genus, but also 

 because he was in possession of the French traditions as to 

 E. diversifolia. Following is a translation of what he said: — 



E. diversifolia, Bonpl. : Nav. et. Malm. ,(3) p. 35, tab. 13; 

 D.C. Prod., iii., 220. Species mistakenly identified with E. 

 viminalis by Bentham. 



A lofty tree [this is a slip ; it only grows to 12-15 metres 

 according to his own showing. — J. H. M.], the older bark falling 

 off in ragged pieces, leaving the trunk smooth. Leaves in the 

 juvenile stage opposite and sessile, oblong-elliotioal, in the 

 adolescent stage alternate, petiolate, lanceolate, 'lightly or not 

 falcate, coriaceous, rigid, shining. Umbels ax .ary, peduncu- 

 late, often 9-11 flowered; flowers shortly pedicellate: 

 operculum shortly conical. Fruit broadly turbinate, rather 

 woody, flattened on the upper side ; capsule the same length as 

 the calyx-tube, four-celled at the most, and opening with the 

 same number of apertures. 



The original of the above is in Latin. It is one of his 

 "biforme" species (i.e., where the differences between the 

 juvenile and adult leaves are much accentuated). 



He then gives an expanded translation of the above 

 referred to Latin, in French. He goes on to say: — 



This tree, that Mr. Bentham has confused with E. viminalis, 

 from which it is very different, seems to me one of the least 

 variable of the species. I have always found it uniform in the 

 different gardens of Provence (Nice, Antibes, St. Raphael, Hyeres, 

 Toulon), as well as the nursery at Hamma, near Algiers, where it 

 attains a height of 12-15 metres. It is certainly one of the first 

 eucalypts which has been introduced into France, perhaps the 

 first of all, since it was in cultivation at la Malmaison from the 

 beginning of the century, and it flourished, when in 1813 Bon- 

 pland published his descriptions of the plants of this establishment. 



(3) His method of quoting Bonpland's work, "Description des 

 plantes rare cultivees a Malmaison et a Navarre." 



