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feet high, with a slender stem, and flowers the second time." The reference to the 

 " Catalogue " is doubtless to the " Catalogus plantarum horti Camaldulensis," 

 which contains the description of the species. The work in question was ptiblished 

 at iSaples, and the Hortus Camuldulensis * was a garden near that city. The first 

 edition was published in 1829, and the second in 1832, and should be noted in case 

 any claims for priority arise. 



Dehnbardt's plant is, without doubt, a cultivated one, and bearing in mind 

 the marked way in which seedling Eucalyptus plants differ from their parents, it is 

 not likely to be absolutely identical with the Mount Wellington plant to . which it 

 has been referred. The idea becomes stronger with me that E. linearis, Dehnh., 

 may prove to be a perfectly smooth -barked form of E. amygdalina, with unusually 

 thin, linear leaves. If so, this form of E. amygdalina might be named var. linearis.^ 



SYNONYM. 



E. pulehella, Desf. 



My researches in European herbaria in regard to this genus has brought to 

 light another named species which seems to be con-specific with E. linearis. It is 

 E. pulehella, Desfontaines. 



The original work not being in any Australian library, I obtained a copy of 

 the description from Kew. It is as follows : — 



Eucalyptus pulehella, Desf. Ramulis filiform ibus, foliis alternis, lineari-subulatis ; floribus 

 axillaribus, umbelJatis, operculo convexo, mucrone obtuso, brevissimo. Hamuli filifornies, paniculafci. 

 Folia uncias 2 longa, lineam 1 lata, utrinque acuta. Petioli breves. Flores in umbellulas axillares dispositi. 

 Pedunculus communis folio multoties brevior, 10-12 floras. — (Cat. IJort. Paris. Ed. 3, 408, 1829). 



Dehnbardt contracts this description into :■ — ■ 



Eucalyptus pulehella. Ramulis filiformibus ; foliis alternis lineari-subulatis. Ramulis filiformibus 

 paniculatis. Folia uncias 2 longa, lineam 1 late. — (Dehnh. Cat. PL Hort. Camald. Ed. 2, p. 20.) 



Walpers' description, published in 1845, is also adapted from the original, 

 and is as follows : — 



Ramulis filiformib. foil, alternis lineari-subulatis, florib. axillarib. umbellatis ; operculo convexo, 

 mucrone obtuso brevissimo. — Crescit 1 " — (Repert iii., 927.) 



Bentham perhaps saw the species, but he pronounces it to be " very 

 doubtful." 



* See p. 58, Part II. of this work. 



t Note on Uncalyptus linearis, Dehnhardt (a supposed Tasmanian species). — Maiden in Proc. Roy. Soc. Tas., 1902, 

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