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DESCRIPTION. 



E. marginata, Sm. 



Trans. Linn. Soo. vi, 302 (1802). 13. Fl. iii, 209. 



Figured and described in " Eucalyptographia." See also Diels and Pritzel, 

 Engler's Jahrb., 1901, p. 438. 



A fall account of its economic uses will be found in Maiden's " Useful Native 

 Plants of Australia" (1889). 



Following is the original description : — 



Marginata, operculo conico magnitudine calycis, urnbellis lateralibus, foliis ovatis margine incrassatis. 

 E. marginata, Donn. Herb. Cant. ed. 2. 101 (?) 



Mr. Aiton favoured me with specimens of this plant three years ago from Kew Gardens. The 

 seeds were brought from Port Jackson. Its leaves agree very much in form with those of E. robust a 

 (next to which it ought to be placed), but the foot-stalks are shorter, veins more prominent, and the margin 

 more thickened, somewhat cartilaginous, and reddish. The umbels are solitary, axillary, and simple- 

 Flowers scarcely one-third the size of the robusta, and their covers are neither broader than the calyx, 

 nor longer ; neither are they contracted in the middle. The flowers much resemble those of my E. vihdaris, 

 but the leaves are totally different. * 



Alton, Hortus Kewensis, iii, 192, calls it " Thick-edged Eucalyptus," and 

 stated that it was introduced to Kew, in 1791, by seeds obtained from Archibald 

 Menzies, Esq. 



Menzies was with Captain Vancouver, who visited South-western Australia, 

 and discovered King George's Sound in 1791. No other portion of Australia was 

 visited by the expedition, and Smith's statement that the seeds came from Port 

 Jackson is probably a mere slip of the pen or a misunderstanding of what Aiton 

 told him. The matter is also discussed by Mueller (Eucalyptographia) under 

 E. marginata, and there is no doubt that E. marginata , Sm., is the West Australian 

 Jarrah. 



SYNONYMS. 



1. E. pedicellata, E.Br. MSS. or "Archd. Menzies" — perhaps as collector 

 only — in Herb. Brit. Museum. 



2. E.floribuncla, Hugel, Enum. PI. Hugel, p. 49 (1837). 

 Type from " Swan River." 



3. E. hypoleuea, Schauer in Lehmann's PI. Preiss. No. 131 (1814). Preiss. 

 No. 226. 



The type came from "Wuljenup, district of Plantagenet, 



