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Mahogany, its wood being red, hard and heavy, in some degree answering the purposes of the West Indian 

 Mahogany. Its leaves are broader than in any other species that has come to my knowledge, and the 

 flowers larger, except only those of E. corymbosa. 



It is described in B.F1. hi, 228, but tbe reference to "White Mahogany" is a 

 slip on somebody's part, since that is tbe name usually applied to E. acmenloides 

 Scbauer, and never to E. robusta Sm. 



E. robusta is figured and described in Mueller's " Eucalyptograpbia." 



The juvenile leaves are broadly ovate, nearly orbicular, and acuminate, and 

 it sometimes has more or less urceolate fruits. 



The bark is brownish, sub-fibrous, scaly. 



SYNONYMS. 



1. E. rostratus Cav. 



2. E. multiflora Poiret. 



3. Var. of E. persicifolia Lodd. (See also Don's Bichlamydeous Plants, ii, 818) 

 = 27. multiflora Poir., which is, according to specimens in Herb, Berlin, examined 

 by me, E. robusta Sm. 



1. E. rostratus Cav. E. rostratus, Tab. 312. 



374. Eucalyptus foliis ovato-lanceolatis, valde acuminatis, nitidis : calyptra rostrata. 



Caulis arboreus 15-20 pedes altus ramis alternis. 



Folia alterna ovato-lanceolata, 4-12 pollices longa, duos lata, valde acuminata, nitida, coriacca, 

 nervis innumcris ad unicum longitudinalem parum obliquis, sustenta petiolo pollicari subalato. 



Flores umbellati, umbellis axillaribus solitariis, 



Calix longior quam in praecedentibus, cujus calyptra rostrata rostro compresso. 



Germen ovato-tetragonum in fundo calicis, hujusque parieti conglutinatum : stylus subulatus. 



Reliqua ut in praecedentibus. 



Fructum non vidi, qui ex germine videtur quadrilocularis. 



Habitat cum praecedentibus : floretque Aprili. Ex eodem herbario. 



Explie. tab. «. Flos cujus calyptra dehiscit, et stamina evolvuntur. b. Idem absque calyptra. 

 c. Calicis sectio ut appareat germen. d. Germinis aucti seetio. 



Obs. Praeter istas species alias vidi in laudato herbario, non ita perfecte conservatas ut iconibus eas 

 sistam quas nihilominus indigitabo bravi descripiione. (Cav. Ic. Vol. iv, p. 23 [1797]). 



A portion of the figure has been reproduced at fig. 2, Plate 97. 



2. E. multiflora, Poir. 



Eucalyptus a fleu.rs nombreuses. Eucalyptus multiflora. 



Eucalyptus opereulo conico, langitudine calicis ; umbellis lateralibus, multifloris ; pedunculo 

 compresso, pedicellisque angulosis ; foliis ovato-oblongis, acutis. (N.) 



Ses lameaux sort cydindriques, d'un vert-pale it cendre, tors, aplatis & anguleux a leur partie 

 supeYieure ; les feuilles alternes, pdtiolees, epaisses, coriaces, d'un verl>pa!e, ovales, alongees, aigues, 

 tre 5-entieret., longues de cinq a six pouces, a nervures ties-fines, presque parallel es, retrevies, a peine 

 obliques a leur base; les petioles long3 d'un pouce; le p^doncule lateral, comprime, e^argi, anguleux, 



