EUCALYPTUS SEPULCKALIS. 



Arborescent ; leaves rather small, scattered, on slender stalks, narrow-lanceolar, slightly 

 curved, of equal color and somewhat shining on both sides ; their lateral veins very subtle, 

 moderately spreading, almost concealed, the circumferential vein but slightly removed from the 

 edge of the leaf ; oil-pores angular, much obliterated ; umbels 3-5-flowered, solitary, axillary, 

 soon lateral ; umbel-stalks long and slender, but much compressed; tube of the flowering calyx 

 slightly bulging towards the base, thence much widening upwards, about as long as its stalklet, 

 of about twice the length of the pyramidal-hemispherical lid, not prominently angular, but as 

 well as the lid wrinkled ; stamens all fertile, and all inflexed before expansion ; filaments yellow; 

 anthers ovate- or roundish-cordate, bursting in front with upward confluent slits ; style elongated ; 

 stigma not dilated ; fruit large, urceolar-ovate, wrinkled and streaked, somewhat contracted at the 

 margin; orifice cylindrical; edge of the summit narrom ; valves 4 rarely 5, very short, deeply 

 enclosed; fertile and sterile seeds of nearly the same size, very angular, without any membranous 

 appendage. 



Near the Thomas-River in South- Western Australia ; Campbell Taylor, Esq. 



" Strange-looking trees, with their branches hanging down all round to the ground, like those 

 of a weeping willow," according to Mr. Taylor, through whose circumspectness and exertions 

 branchlets of this new Eucalypt became accessible to me from a desolate place far inland. Bark 

 of the stem smooth and whitish. Branchlets slender, angular toward their summit and tinged 

 with a bluish-white bloom, soon becoming cylindrical and assuming a dark-bluish somewhat 

 black hue. Leaves vividly green ; the majority from 2 to 3^ inches long, and from ^ to f of an 

 inch broad, almost equilateral, terminating into a narrow apex, narrowed into a stalk of from 

 i to I inch length. Umbel-stalks 1-1 J inches long, two-edged, gradually somewhat dilated 

 upwards ; two narrow deciduous at first connate bracts enclosing the umbel in its earliest stage. 

 Stalklets . wrinkled and angular, but not much compressed or dilated. Tube of the flowering 

 calyx from ^ to nearly \ an inch long, conspicuously corrugated, as well as the lid ; between the 

 latter and former a conspicuous transverse sutural furrow. Longest stamens hardly above ^ inch 

 long ; filaments not angular, dotted with a few oil-glands, their lower portion not flexuous in bud ; 

 anthers whitish, inserted below the middle ; dorsal gland small, seated near the summit ; in dry 

 anthers the slits wide and separated downward only by an exceedingly narrow intervening mem- 

 brane ; in fresh or macerated anthers the slits very narrow, conspicuously distant downward, 

 though not marginal, confluent in an arched curvature on the summit. Style yellowish, some- 

 what twisted. Ovary only occupying the basal portion of the calyx-tube, very much overreached 

 by the comparatively narrow walls of the latter. Fruits about one inch long, seated on stalklets 

 of about half that length, greyish and not shining outside, longitudinally traversed by raised 

 and somewhat undulated streaks, the upper fourth rather suddenly ennarrowed and straight, 

 except at the incurved summit, but this infraterminal constriction sometimes so faint as to render 

 the fruit simply truncate-ovate. Placental column comparatively short. Valves deltoid. Seeds 

 not numerous in each cell, mostly from 1 J to 2 lines in length, a few scarcely 1 line long ; the 

 fertUe seeds outside black, shining and marked with exceedingly subtle reticulation, the promi- 

 nent angles ascending and diverging from the hilum, the summit convex and broad ; sterile 

 seeds brown, narrower, but never veiy slender. 



The specific name was chosen, because this Eucalypt will be destined to add another emblem 

 of sadness to the tree-vegetation of cemeteries in climes similar to ours. It finds its systematic 



