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" Sieber's No. 606. Short diagnosis, might perhaps do for cither albens or 

 dealbala. I have not seen it." (Bentham in B. El. Ill, 200.) 



Specimens labelled " E. pollens, DC, Broken River," in Mueller's hand- 

 writing, in Herb., Kew, arc E. hemiphoia, var. albens. 



2. E. procera, Dehnh. 



Eucalyptus procera, Dehnh., E. foliis late-ovatis longissimis obliquis coriaceis parallele venosis 

 marginatisve suberenulatis utrinque glanduliferis apice uncinatis, petiolis muricatis coloratis, ramulis 

 teretibus glanduliferis rubioundis. 



Cortice laevi aestivo tempore in squamas secedente Nov. Holl. 



(Dehnhardt, Catalogus plantarum horli Camaldulensis. Ed. IT, 1832, p. 20.)* 



Bentham (B. Eh, iii, 200), who had not seen any specimens, speaks of the 

 description as "far too imperfect to render identification possible." 



I have seen some excellent specimens, in bud, flower, and ripe fruit, 

 communicated by Dehnhardt himself to the Vienna herbarium (Herb. Mus. Cass. 

 Balat. Vindob.), which show that the species is E. obliqua, L'Herit. The label 

 states that the tree (Hort. Camaldul.) was raised from "unknown seed," and that 

 the tree (? that from which the original seed was taken) was 70 feet high. The 

 seed probably came from Tasmania. 



Following is Walpers' description : — 



Eucalyptus proeern, Dehnhardt, I.e., p. 174. — Operculo hemisphaerico mucronulato, calyce breviore ; 

 pedunculis subancipitib., umbellis lateralib., 5-9-floris parvis ; foil, alternis ovato-lanceolatis longissimis 

 obliquis falcatis coriaceis parallele venosis, apice uncinatis, margine subcrenulatis iutegerrimisve, juniorib., 

 utrinq., glanduliferis; ramis teretib. rubioundis. Crescit in Nova Hollandia, (Walpers' Repertorium 

 Botanices Systematica, ii, p. 1 64.) 



Mueller (in " Eucalyptographia," under E. pauciflora) quoting Walpers' 

 wording of the description of the species, refers it to pauciflora (coriacea), but the 

 specimens set the matter at rest. 



3. E. gigantea, Hook., f.f 



N. sp. ; ramis ramulisque lsevibus elongatis gracilibus, foliis alternis sublonge petiolatis amplis 

 oblique curvatis ovato-lanceolatis longe acuminatis basi valde inrequalibus costa distincta, nervis lateralibus 



* The following information about Hortus Camaldulensis is abbreviated from Dehnhardt's Preface to Ed. 2, of the 

 Cat. PI. Hort. Camaldulemis (1832). 



The hills of the Vomer (Ploughshare), and of the district of Camalduli, beneath which lies the city (Naples), are 

 foremost amongst the most picturesque parts of Campania. The climate is especially mild. On those hills the Count of 

 Camalduli has an immense farm, and excellently laid out gardens. The variety and plenteousness of the trees and 

 vegetation — products both of practical utility and of pure delight — draw crowds of inhabitants and strangers ; the immense 

 size and joyous shapes of the truly exotic plants only to be found elsewhere in hotdiouses, and which here are planted in 

 the open air as though native of the soil, must cause the greatest delight and wonder in the spectator. 



The following particulars about the Count are given in his preface to Ed. I (1829), and from the last sentence it 

 would appear that Dehnhardt was superintendent or head gardener of this garden: — "After the Count of Camalduli, 

 Franciscus Iticcardi, had obtained permission to retire from the splendid position whose duties he had most diligently 

 performed, he withdrew to the beautiful hills of the Ploughshare and of Camalduli. The garden attached to the country 

 house (described in poetry hy those most noble knights Angelo M. Riccio, in the vernacular, and Jacobo Farina, President 

 of the Supreme Court, in Latin), were given me to lay out and beautify." 



t E. gigantea, Dehnh., is E. globulus, Labill. 



