EUCALYPTtrS RESINIFERA. 



to E. resinifera. Thus leaves occur twice as broad as those of the lithogram, whereas flowers are 

 also found of double the size of those illustrated. In a stunted state this tree, when growing 

 among granite-rocks in New England, may have its flowerstalks much shortened, the staMets 

 vanishing and the lid abbreviated to a pyramidal-hemispheric form. 



The timber is pronounced by the Eevd. Dr. WooUs " splendid and as durable as that of the 

 Ironbark-trees " of New South Wales, though the tree itself in outer appearance resembles more 

 the Stringybark-Eucalypts. It ought to be for timber-culture, along with E. rostrata and E. cor- 

 nuta, one of the most valuable in wet tropical countries ; nevertheless in its merits for sanitary 

 purposes it cannot rival with any of the Eucalypts richest in Cajuput-like oil. 



Explanation or Ajialttic Details. — 1, part of flowerbud, the lid separated; 2, longitudinal section of 

 flowerbud ; 3 and 4, front- and back-view of anther ; 5, pistil ; 6, outer stamens ; 7, longitudinal section of a fruit ; 

 8, transverse section of a fruit ; 9, sterUe seeds ; 10, fertile seeds ; 11, portion of a leaf ; variously magnified. 



In the niawarra-district occurs a tree, which attracted great attention in India, not only because 

 of its rapid growth, but also as it proved the best species there to cope with the moist tropical 

 heat. This tree has been cultivated at Lucknow by Dr. Bonavia, who recorded, that it attained in 

 the best soil 12 feet in two years ; it was there considered to belong to E. resinifera. It differs 

 however from that species in having the leaves of equal color on both sides with more prominent 

 veins, the intramarginal veins more distant from the edge ; thus in venation as also in odor of 

 foliage and fruit the tree in question approaches E. robusta, but its fruit is certainly similar to that 

 of E. resinifera, wanting however the broadish outer ring around its orifice, characteristic of the 

 typical E. resinifera, while the lateral veins of the leaves are not quite so transversely spreading 

 as in either. If really specifically distinct, the tree might be named E. Kirtoniana in honor of its 

 discoverer. 



Eucalyptus punctata (Candolle, prodromus systematis naturalis regni vegetabUis iii. 217) is 

 evidently very closely related to E. resinifera, though Bentham took for it a variety of E. tereti- 

 cornis with broader and shorter leaves, thicker flowerstalk and very blunt operculum. Dr. WooUs 

 acknowledges perhaps correctly E. punctata, the " Leather-Jacket " of the colonists, as a separate 

 species and places it into the section of Hemiphloiee. His Parramatta specimens agree precisely 

 with Heyland's drawing in De Candolle's m^moire sur la famille des myrtac^es, pi. 4. The main 

 differences, by which E. punctata can be held separate from E. resinifera, are the thinness of its 

 leaves, its general tendency to a paniculate inflorescence, the abbreviated lid of the calyx, the more 

 depressed rim of the ripe fruit and the extremely short in no way or but very slightly protruding 

 valves of the latter ; it is brought into closer contact with E. saligna by the size of its flowers and 

 fruits, the shortness of the lid and of the fruit-valves, differing however in the total persistency of 

 the stem-bark, the longer staMets and the less pointed lid. The reverend gentleman observes, 

 that E. punctata passes among artisans also as " Hickory," that it has a tough and thick bark 

 that the wood is useful for fencing and other rough purposes, and that the tree attains a height of 

 70 feet. I find the leaves copiously pellucid-dotted, as the name would imply. 



