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3. E. persieifolia, DC. 



Following is a copy of the original description : — 



(Lodd. Bot. Cab., t. 501). Operculo conico cupula paulo breviore, pedunculis axillaribus et latioribus 

 ancipitibus petioli longitudine, pedicellis brevibus compressis, foliis oblongis basi attenuatis apice 

 acuminatis nervulo margine, subparallelo teuuissimo notatis. Nova, Hollandia. Folii petiolus 4-5 lin. 

 longus, lamina 3 poll, longa, 6 lin. lata. Umbellre 8-10-florse. 3 foliis paulo latioribus, pedunculis 

 brevioribus Eucalyptus. Sieb., plant, exs. Nov. Hott. n. 593 (v.s.). v. foliis paulo longioribus pedunculis 

 petiolum paululum excedentibus. E. incrassata, Sieb., plant exs. Nova IIoll. n. 477 E. multijlora, Poir. 

 suppl. 2, p. 594 1 (v.s.). (Prod, iii, 217.) 



De Candolle, therefore, states that the umbels are 8-10 flowered. He quotes 

 two varieties : — 



(a) With broader leaves and shorter peduncles. Sieber's No. 593. 



(b) With longer leaves, and the peduncles slightly exceeding the petioles. This 

 is Sieber's No. 477, and is stated to be E. multijlora, Poir. 



A specimen in Herb. Barbey-Boissier in bud and leaf only bears the label, 

 " Eucalyptus persieifolia, Lodd., DC. De la Nouvelle Hollande, M. Sieber, 1825, 

 No. 593." The leaves are broader than specimens of No. 477 in the same 

 herbarium, but I can see no other difference. 



Specimens of Nos. 477 and 593 in the Berlin Herbarium are so similar that I 

 cannot detect any difference between them, and they also are referable, in my 

 opinion, to E. pilularis. 



These specimens are all in bud only, and there is no doubt that the 

 resemblance to specimens of E. siderophloia in bud is considerable, and deceived 

 Mueller ; Bentham followed him. 



Mr. Backhouse, the Quaker botanical traveller, collected E. pilularis at 

 Elizabeth Bay, Sydney, in February, 1836, and labelled it " E. persieifolia^ The 

 specimens are at Kew. The late Bev. Dr. Woolls and other botanists, who worked 

 prior to the publication of Vol. Ill of the Flora Australiensis, used to style the 

 blackbutt E. persieifolia . 



4. E. incrassata, Sieb. 



Following is De Candolle's description of this species : — 



"Foliis paulo longioribus (than E. persieifolia, Lodd.), pedunculis petiolum paululum excedentibus. 

 E. incrassata, Sieb., plant, exs. nor. Holl., n. 477. E. multijlora, Poir., suppl. 2, p. 594 (?)" (Prod, iii, 

 217). It is identical, of course, with E. persieifolia, DC. 



An original specimen of Sieber's No. 477 in Herb. Barbey-Boissier bears the 

 following additional label : — " Eucalyptus incrassata, Sieb. De la Nouvelle 

 Hollande, Sieber, 1825." On the same label was added a little later, " Eucalyptus 

 persieifolia, Lodd., v.y., DC." 



Like other specimens of No. 477, it is in leaf and bud only, and is E. pilularis. 



