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Following is Cavanilles' description : — 



Eucalyptus obliquus, 375. Eucalyptus foliis ovato-lanceolatis, nervo unico ramoso, nervulis ad 

 ipsum raris : umbellis axillaribus. In hac specie folia non videntur coriacea ; ncrvuli adsurgunt 

 formantque angulum acutum cum nervo principali : umbellae quinqueflorae : et calyptra hemisphaerica. 

 Videtur eadem species quam D. do Lamarck figuravifc tab. 422, ill. gen. cujus descriptionem nondum 

 evulgavit. (Cav. Ic, Vol. IV, p. 25, 1797). 



Lamarck's figure is practically a copy of L'Heritier's, with the details 

 arranged differently on the smaller-sized plate of Lamarck's work. 



Link, in the following brief description, attributed the species to Smith, and 

 quotes Willdenow's JEnumeratio : — ■ 



218. E. obliqua, Smith, W. E., 515. Fol. ut in pr. parum breviora, ultra 2' lata. Pedunculi 

 breves 1" long! axillares 6 flori ; pedicelli brevissimi. (Link. Enxm. Berol. ii, 30.) 



The species is likewise attributed to Smith in the following label in Herb. 

 Calcutta: — "Eucalyptus obliqua, Smith, Serres de M. Noisette, 6 Aout, ]816." 

 Tli is specimen is E. obliqua, L'Herit. 



Following is Hoffinansegg's brief reference to the species, which is given 

 here to save botanists searching after this rare work : — 



(430.) Eucalyptus obliqua. Male in Willd. foliorum nulla nientio, id quod in Link Eiuuii. 

 probe emendatum. (Hoffmg. Verz. I'll. Nachlr. 2, p. 114.) 



It will be found to be fully defined in Benthahi's " Flora Australicnsis " 

 (iii. 201), and in Mueller's " Eucalyptographia." 



Vernacular names. — It is usually known as " Stringybark " in Tasmania 

 and South Australia, and to a less extent in Victoria; in the last State, however, it 

 is usually known as "Messmate," because it is associated or mess-mates with other 

 stringybarks and fibrous-barked eucalypts. The same name is in use in southern 

 New South Wales, as for instance at Sugar Loaf Mountain, Braidwood, and at 

 Tantawanglo Mountain, near Cathcart. Apparently this is the most widely used 

 name for it in New South Wales, and the term " Stringybark" does not seem to be 

 usually applied to it in this State. 



Because it is usually rough-barked to the ends of the branches, it sometimes 

 goes by the name of "Woolly-topped Messmate" in the Braidwood district (Monga, 

 &c.). Other names are "Bastard Stringybark," "Woolly Butt," "Woolly Bark," 

 and "White Stringybark," all in use in New England, New South Wales. For 

 a note on the use of the terms Brown and White Stringybark in Tasmania, 

 see p. 54. 



Cotyledon leaves. — Small, reniform to obtusely quadrangular, glabrous, 

 triplinerved, thin, more or less suffused with purple. 



