DESCRIPTION. 



XCV. E. macrocarpa, Hook. 



In Icones Plantarum, tt. 405-7 (1842). 



Following is the original description : — 



Arbor ubique farinaceo-glaucescens, foliis cordato-ellipticis brevi-acuminatis pedunculis axillaribus 

 solitariis brevissimis unifloris, calycis magni crassissimi operculo conico-acuminato, capsula maxima 

 breviter heniispherica marginata lignosa 4-5 valvi. 



It was again figured and described in Bot. Mag. t. 4333, also by Paxton, 

 Mag. Bot. xv, 29. 



It is described by Bentharn in B.F1. iii, 224, and by Mueller in 

 " Eucalyptograpbia." 



Notes supplementary to the Description. 



I have never seen it grow higher than about 14 feet. It forms copses, which are very tough, and 

 as it is usually very crooked in its growth, the wood is not used. The stems are seldom thicker than 

 about 2h inches. The flower has a superb appearance, usually about 3 inches across, and of a rich 

 crimson colour. (W. D. Campbell, of Perth, in a letter. ) 



Mr. 0. H. Sargent has sent me a small photograph of a seedling raised by 

 him, in which a number of leaves are petiolate, and some of the lower ones 

 quite narrow. 



The thin bark is quite smooth, and varies from pale to dark grey, according 

 to its age; the wood is pale-coloured, according to a specimen received from 

 Mr. Sargent. 



RANGE. 



It is confined to Western Australia. 



Hab. Guangan, Swan River Colony, Australia. Mr. J. Drummond. 



One of the finest of the many fine plants sent to me by Mr. J. Drummond from the Swan River 

 Colony is the present new species of Eucalyptus. It is noticed in Mr. Drummond's letters, published in 

 the second volume of our Journal of Botany, p. 343, and subsequent pages. Guangan is the native name 

 for a country inland from the Swan River coast, constituting an open sandy desert, commencing about 

 80 miles E.S.E. [E.N.E. in the original passage as quoted in the Journal of Botany] of Fremantle and 

 continuing for 200 miles. This barren, sandy desert is bordered by a considerable forest-, composed 

 principally of two species of Eucalyptus, called Urac and Morral by the aborigines. The present one is 

 the Morral, conspicuous by its noble, glaucous, almost white leaves, its red flowers and its fruit, both 

 of an unusually large size. The same species, however, Mr. Drummond has seen with white flowers. 

 (Hooker, in original description.) 



