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SYNONYM. 



E. multiflora, Rich. 

 Following is the description, which is not readily available, and therefore I 

 reproduce it : — 



E. 1 foliis subalternis petiolatis oblongis acuminatis basi acutis aequilateris concoloribus laxe penni- 

 nerviis venulosis costa venisque primariissubtus prominentibus ; cyrais paniculatis multifloris ; pedunculis 

 cornpresso-angulatis ; capsulis subglobosis. Hab. near Caldera, Mindanao, one of the Philippine Islands. 



The specimens consist of a leafy shoot, and a leafless branch -with the inflorescence of the previous 

 season, bearing the persistent capsules. The latter show what appears to be the line of circumscissile 

 dehiscence ; otherwise there are no evident grounds for referring the plant to Eucalyptus. The leaves are 

 not phyllodineous, and apparently not vertical ; they are unequally alternate, oblong, acuminate, or at least 

 acute at both ends, 4 or 5 inches long and \} z or 2 inches wide, on petioles of half an inch in length, 

 equilateral, chartaceous, thickly pellucid-punctate, dull and of the same hue both sides, loosely feather- 

 veined, the primary veins and the midrib prominent underneath, but impressed above ; the veinlets 

 minutely reticulated. Branchlets, especially the fructiferous ones, somewhat angled. The flowers appear 

 to have been in naked, terminal and axillary, paniculate cymes ; the peduncles, &c, compressed-angled, 

 many flowered ; the pedicels umbel lately fascicled in threes and fives, as long as the capsules. The latter 

 are globular ; 2 lines in diameter, the summit, above the line from which the limb of the calyx has fallen, 

 convex; there four-valved ; within four-celled ; each cell containing a large placenta, which has evidently 

 borne numerous seeds. These, however, have all been shed. I thus record the plant, under the name 

 given by Mr. Rich in the collection, since Blume has published one or two Eucalypti from the Moluccas 

 and other Malayan Islands, to which this plant may be related. — (A. Gray in Bot. U.S. Exped., 554.) 



The type is referred to in the following paper by me : — 

 " On the Identification of a Species of Eucalyptus from the Philippines." 



In the Botany of the United States Exploring Expedition during the years 1838-1842, under the 

 command of Charles Wilkes, U.S. Navy," there is given b an account of a plant found near Caldera, 

 Mindanao, one of the Philippine Islands. Leaves and fruits were available, and Asa Gray says : — " I thus 

 record the plant under the name Eucalyptus multiflora, Rich, given by Mr. Rich in the collection." 



Bentham refers d to this specimen in the following words : — 

 A fifth species of Eucalyptus from a still more distant region, Mindanao, one of the Philippine Islands, is described 

 by A. Gray in the Botany of the American Exploring Expedition/ under the name of E. multiflora, Rich, from a specimen 

 in leaf, and with a panicle of old fruits from which the calyx limb and operculum, if any, are fallen away and the open 

 capsules have lost all their seeds. The four-celled (not three-celled) capsule is the only character leading us to suppose 

 that it may be a Eucalyptus rather than a Tristania or a Metrosideros. No mention of it occurs in Blanco's Flora. 



It will thus be seen that the very identity of the genus of this plant was doubted by an eminent 

 authority. 



A short time ago, through the kindness of the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution 

 Washington, D.C., I was able to examine Gray's specimen. It is No. 25483 of the U.S. National 

 Herbarium, and as it turns out to be identical with Eucalyptus Naudiniana, F. v. Muller, E. midtiflora, 

 Rich, must fall, because the name is preoccupied (E. multiflora, Poiret, probably a synonym of E. pilidaris, 

 Smith).' 



There are so few Eucalypti found outside Australia that the question of the identity of one found 

 beyond the limits of that continent is of interest, and the occurrence of the genus in the Philippines is 

 now set at rest, and doubtless its range in that group will be ascertained by American botanists. 



E. Naudiniana, F. v. Muller, is so little known that the following notes in regard to it may be 

 acceptable. It was described by Muller in the " Australasian Journal of Pharmacy, " g under the title 

 of " Description of a Hitherto Unrecorded Species of Eucalyptus from New Britain." New Britain is, of 

 course, now a German possession under the name of Bismarck Archipelago. 



1 " Phanerogamia," by Asa Gray, I, 1854. 

 b Page 554. 



c William Rich, botanist of the U.S. ship " Relief." In Captain Wilkes' narrative Mr. Rich's name is given as one 

 who made an excursion from Manila, and he speaks of " our botanical gentlemen botanizing in the forests of Mindanao." 

 A i' Journ. Linn. Soc." (Botany), X, p. 143. 

 c Page 554. 



' See "DC Prod., Ill, p. 217, under E. persic- 'folia, Lodd. 

 ejuly, 1886. 



