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Les feuilles dans les jeunes plantes de cet Eucalyptus, de meme que dans plusieurs autres especesdu 

 menie genre qui se cultivi nt a Malmaison, sont opposee-s et affectent line forme entierement differente de 

 celle des rnemes individus plus avances dans leur vegetation. 



Les Eucalyptus offrent une nouvelle richesse au midi de l'Empire. M. Martin, savant estimable, 

 directeur du jardin botanique de Toulon, a mis depuis plusieurs ann^es, en pleine terre, un petit pied 

 <X Eucalyptus qu'il avoit re§u de Malmaison. Cette plante, que j'ai -soie dans l'ete de 1813, avoit acquis plus 

 de vinct pieds de hauteur, et etoit, pour la premiere fois, couverte de fruits bien nourris. Cette seule 

 experience prouve que les Eucalyptus penvent croitre avec l'olivier, les grenadiers, les citroniers, et 

 d'autres arbres utiles de nos provinces meridionales. 



L'Eucalyptus cultive par M. Martin nous paroit etre le meme que V Eucalyptus divers (folia. Les 

 petites differences que j'observe entre l'echantillon de cette plante, que j'ai cueilli a Toulon, et les pieds que 

 je cultive a Malmaison, semblent etre produites par le changement de culture ou par le climate. (Descr. 

 PI. Jard. Malmaison, 35, 1813.) See also DC. Prod, iii, 220 ; "Mem sur les Eucalyptus introduits dans 

 la re-ion Mediterrane'enne," par C. Nauclin ( innate* des Scimces Nnturelles, 6 5 Serie Bot., t. xvi (No. 6), 

 p. 413 (1883) ; " Description et empl>i des Eucalyptus introduits en Europe, principalement en France et 

 en Algeria" C. Naudin. Antibes 1891, p. 50. 



It is described by Bentham (B.E1. iii, 206), and I proceed to amplify his 

 description : — 



Usually a tall, Mallee-like shrub, with smooth, ribbony bark, but stated to occasionally attain 

 tree size. 



Leaves. — Oblong or lanceolate, acute or acuminate, mostly under 3 inches and often nearly straight, 

 very thick and rigid, scarcely showing the oblique veins. 



Peduncles. — Axillary or lateral, short, terete or angular, each bearing 3 to 8 rather large flowers 

 on very short pedicels. 



(Jalyx-tube. — Short and open, above 2 lines diameter. 



Operculum. — Conical, sometimes quiie rostrate. 



Sliimeus. — At least 3 lines long ; anthers reniform, with diverging confluent cells (see below). 



Fruit. — The fruit, displays great variation in size, shape, and sculp ure. It is often warted. It is 

 subcylindrical or conoid to nearly globular, from scarcely more than ^-inch t ) jj-inch in fliameter. The 

 fruit som times, but not always, contracted at the orifice, the rim broad, usually convex (sometimes hori- 

 zontal) and always prominent, the valves sunk or slightly protruding. 



The prominence of the rim varies a good deal, that of Drummond's No 64 (Bentham's E. pachyfoma) 

 being quite domed. A specimen from Stirling Range, West Australia, has an even broader lim. even 

 broader than the calyx, the fruit being markedly globular. Tne rim often has a well-marked groove, 

 sometimes two. 



It is again described (as E. santalifulia) and also figured by Mueller in 

 " Eucalyptographia." In this work he states that : — 



The cardinal characteristic of E. santaltfolia rests in the position of the stamens before their expan- 

 sion ; then through a simple turn the lower portion of the filnments remains decumbent, whereas ihe upper 

 part becomes erect, but in no way the filaments are reduplicated. Such peculiar curvature of the stamens, 

 while in bud, is not known to exist in any other species of Eucalyptus, although an approach to such a 

 stamina! aestivation is offered by E. Planclwniana. All other species, in which the stamens are not 

 distinctly doubled back in their early state, namely E. gomphocephala, E. Oldjieldii, E. sid>-rophloia, 

 E. P-reticumis, E. salmonophloia, as well as E. comma and its allies, have the filaments in bud either 

 straight or turned differently to those of E. santabfulia. 



The section of the bud at Pig. 2 of the illustration is somewhat diagrammatic, 

 but it essentially represents the position of the stamens before expansion in fresh 

 Victorian specimens, for example. I am not in a position, without further investi- 

 gation, to say whether this arrangement of the unexpanded stamens is " the cardinal 

 characteristic" of the species, which would involve examination of an enormous 

 amonnt of material. 



