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On the type specimen at Kew its locality is described as " Rocky Hills, Cox's 

 River." 



Sprengel, Si/st. Vegetabilium ii, 501, Las " E. pulverulenta Ker, operculo 

 submutico, peduaculis 3-floris, foliis oppositis cordato-orbiculatis subcucullatis pul- 

 vcrulentis." 



In DC. Prod, iii, 221, it is described under E. pulcerulenta Sims, and E. 

 cordata Ilort. Berol. is quoted as a synonym. I Lave seen a specimen, and it is E. 

 pulverulenta Sims (E. pulvigera A. Cunn.). 



In D. Don's Gen. Hist Dichlam. Plants ii, &21, E. pulverulenta Sims is quoted 

 for Sims' Bot. Mag. t. 208, and as distinct from E. pulvigera A. Cunn. Although 

 he quotes E. pulcerulenta as introduced into cultivation in 1816 (Sims' figure is 

 dated 1S19) and E. pulcigera in 182 i (Cunningham collected it in 1822), the two 

 descriptions he quotes do not sufficiently contrast the plants to show whether he 

 really is describing two species or not. 



One can fairly surmise how E. pulvigera (Sims' pulverulenta) got into culti- 

 vation as early as 1816. Certainly the original grower did not get seed so early 

 from Allan Cunningham, who only arrived in New South Wales in December, 1816. 

 It is probable that it was collected during Macquarie's progress to Bathurst in 1815, 

 and that it may have been collected by Lewin, who was artist and naturalist. 

 Under date 30th April, 1815, Major H. C. Antill notes in his diary near the Cox's 

 River : — 



" After divine service was over, some of the party mounted their horses and took a ride to Mt. 

 Blaxland, and another gentleman and myself took a sober walk up the river for about 2 miles, where we 

 met with a waterfall extending across the river. . . . Having collected some seeds and plants along 

 the bed of the river on the way up," ifec. 



The track, such as it was, passes near a patch of E. pulverulenta Sims, not 

 far from the foot of Mt. Blaxland, while it would be a temptation to ascend Mt. 

 Blaxland, and seeds of this peculiar looking plant would form a memento of the 

 ascent. It could have been got nowhere else, although there is no specific mention 

 of the collection of seed of it until Cunningham collected it seven years later and 

 called it pulvigera. 



2. E. rigida Hoffmg. 



Mueller, " Eucalyptographia," indicates E. rigida Hoffmg., as probably 

 referable to E. pulcerulenta. I threw doubt upon this suggestion at vol. 1, p. 271, of 

 the present work, since I followed Mueller in looking upon the plant under reference 

 as E. pulverulenta E.v.M. non Sims (E. cinerea E.v.M.), whose foliage is not specially 

 rigid; but the word rigid would certainly be appropriate to E. pulveru'enta Sims 

 (E. pulvigera A. Cunn.), and so Mueller's surmise was sounder than he thought it 

 was. 



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