112 



A second specimen is perhaps a portion of the first : — 



" E. viminalis, but may be E. Stuartiana, var." (F.v.M.'s note) ; Fifteen Mile 

 Creek, Mueller. 1853, labelled by him "E. viminalis Labill., var. granulans (E. granulans, 

 Sieb.). 



1, 5, 6. It will be observed that Miquel described a var. microcarpa F.v.M. of 

 viminalis. " Ad Fifteen Miles Creek." I have seen an original specimen and it bears 

 the following label—" Eucalyptus sacckariflua Ferd. Miiller var. microcarpa (?) Fifteen 

 Miles Creek, Lofty Ranges (South Australia.— J.H.M.) E. viminalis var. microcarpa.''' 



The following passages explain the origin of some of the above names : — 



(6) Eucalyptus viminalis Labill. I.e. p. 12 Tab. 151. DC. Prodr. I.e. 218. n. 15. — E. saccharifera 

 Ferd. Miiller mss. E. crucivalvis ej. olim. 



In humidis ad Onkaparinga. m. Aug.. Beagle (Bugle) range. Lofty Range (South Australia. — J.H.M.) 

 F. Miiller.- — Tasmania (Stuart n. 7). Arbor procera trunco oinereo albo recto. 



(3. microcarpa F. Mull.; — Ad. Fifteen-ruiles creek. 



Folia chartaceo-coriacea elongato-lanceolata e basi latiore sensim angustata. acuminata. Umbellae 

 axillares et laterales triflorae ; pedunculus petiolo brevior pedicellis longior ; calycis tubus conico - 

 campanulatus operculum hemisphaericum muticum apice conoideo-attenuatum aequans. — Arbor gigantea 

 cortice griseo-nigricante rimoso secendente et truncum laevem cinereum relinquente, coma densiore quam 

 E. longirostris. Suturae valvarum 4 varo (raro) 3 e tubo calycino maturo turbinato-globoso emersae 

 crucem imitantur. Fl. Aestate (Mull, adnot.) (Miq. Ned. Kruidk. Arch. iv. 125 [1856] ). 



In the above quotation two species are involved : — 



1. From " 6. Eucalyptus viminalis .... albo recto."* This is E. viminalis 



Labill. 



2. From " yS. microcarpa," to the end. This is E. rubida Deane and Maiden. 



2. E. mannifera A. Cunn. 



Allan Cunningham's observations were made on herbarium specimens collected 

 at Bathurst, N.S.W. (now in Herb. Kew), and are as follow : — 



Eucalyptus mannifera A. Cunn.. operculo hemisphaerico acutiusculo umbellis axillaribus 

 terminalibus 4-6 floris, cortice arboris albo-cinereo. This species of Eucalyptus is very generally dispersed 

 through the country bordering on the Downs of Bathurst. where it forms a tree of irregular growth 30-40 

 feet high, flowering in the months of August and September, and in very dry, warm weather giving oufc.a 

 sweet juice or sap, which becomes white and concrete by exposure to the atmosphere when it drops to the 

 ground. N.B. — Throughout the late long and painful season of drought (m N.S.W.) to the agriculturist 

 the exudation from this tree has been verv considerable, so that so long as the atmosphere continued very 

 dry and not charged with moisture it might be gathered from the ground beneath the tree in a quantity 

 sufficient in a few minutes to fill a pint pot. The Manna, as it is called by our Ultramontane settlers, thus 

 produced is frequently collected for medicinal purposes, is of a pleasant sweet taste, and not in the least 

 affected by the essential oil, with which every part of the plant abounds. It dissolves immediately in 

 water so that it disappears at once from beneath the trees on the falling of the slightest shower of rain. 

 It is frequently taken by persons at Bathurst as a pleasant purgative, so gentle in its operation that it may 

 be administered to the tenderest infant, the dose for a healthy adult being from 2| to 3 tablespoonsfull. 

 The timber of the tree is considered useless for the purposes of rural economy and is in consequence only 

 used a.s fuel. A. Cunningham. 



