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DESCRIPTION. 



E. dives, Schauer. 



Following is the original description : — 



Schauer mss. — Glaucescens : ramis ramulisq. rigidulis teretib. ; foil, firruis oppositis alternisve ovatis 

 petiolatis v. subsessilib., basi obliquis acuminatis, summo acumine breviter recurvo, margine incrassatis 

 venosis subperforatis ; umbellis subcapitals multifloris lateralib. axillaribq. ; pedunculo semipollicari 

 tereti. ; pedicellis cupulam obconicam subaequantib. et continuo in eandem accrescentib. ; operculo depresso 

 subconvexo obtusissimo vix umbonato. — Folia 3-4 poll, longa, 1-2 poll, lata ; cupula cum pedicello 3 lineas 

 explens. In Nova Cambria australi interiori. — A. Cunn. Herb. no. 181 1822 (Walpers' Rep. ii, 926). 



The type came from "Forest land north of Bathurst," where Allan Cunning- 

 ham was in 1822. 



Subsequently Bentham described it in B.F1. iii, 205, the fruit being unknown 

 to him. 



Mueller, in the " Eucalyptographia," alludes to it under E. amyydalina, 

 and I believe that he always held the view that it was not separable from that 

 species. I doubt if he ever saw juvenile foliage ; I have not seen any that I know 

 passed through his hands. 



The next account I find of it includes an account of the fruit :— 



E. dives . . . occurs on the Blue Mountains, and the Mittagong Range. The . . . seed- 

 vessel is globose-truncate, about two lines in diameter, four-celled, with a broad rim, and the capsule sunk, 

 the valves scarcely protruding . . . the wood is not esteemed. — (Woolls' Fl ra oj Australia, p. 241. 

 See also his Plants oj New South Wales). 



The tree is abundant on the Mittagong-Berrima Road, which Dr. Woolls used 

 to travel, and I have some specimens collected by the reverend gentleman. 



For a long time there remained a doubt as to the identity of the species, 

 partly because it was looked upon as a shrub (or a small tree of 10 or 12 feet, a 

 statement repeated by Dr. Woolls), and, meantime, Mr. Deane and I redescribed it 

 under the name of E. amygdalina var. latifolia. (See Synonyms.) 



Shortly afterwards I visited the Melbourne Herbarium, and found one of Dr. 

 Woolls' specimens from Mittagong labelled E. amygdalina var. dives by Mueller. 

 These precisely matched the Woollsian specimens in my possession, and Mr. Deane 

 and I published a note, announcing the rediscovery of E. dives, Schauer, Proc. 

 Linn. Soc. N.S.W., 1899, 460. 



