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A second specimen in young foliage bears the label : — 



" Eucalyptus amplifolia Naud. Cultive a Cannes, M. Naudin." 



A third specimen, evidently belonging to the second, bears the following label 

 in M. Naudin's handwriting, together with a sketch : — 



" Eucalyptus amplifolia, Ndn. Jardin du Riou, a Cannes, 14 Septembre, 1880, 

 Ch. Ndn. Ombelles de 7 a 9 fleurs et quelque-fois plus attenuees en un court pedicelle- 

 pedoncle commun plus court cpie le petiole. Arbiisseau, feuilles coriaces, tres grandes. 

 Opercule des boutons, conique ou cornu, plus long que le tube du calyce. Non E. 

 platyphylla Bentb." 



These specimens were lent to me by M. Jules Poisson, and they are quite 

 characteristic. Before re burning them to Paris, Miss Flockton made excellent drawings 

 of them, from which were selected the small sketches, figures 2a, b, c, d, in Plate 131. 



It will thus be seen that the species was founded on specimens cultivated in 

 France; they match absolutely a number of specimens in the National Herbarium, in 

 the Bankstown and Cabramatta districts, near Sydney, Bowral to Goulburn in the 

 south, and indeed, many other localities both south and north, for it is a very well- 

 defined .species. 



Mr. Theodore Payne of Los Angeles, California, U.S.A., informs me that it is 

 locally known as the " Cooper variety of E. tereticomis," as the old trees are on the 

 Ellwood Cooper ranch, Santa Barbara, California, and all the other Californian trees 

 can be traced to this source. He adds : ' When young, the seedlings have a large, 

 almost round leaf, and very square stems. The lower branches of the young trees 

 often retain this round leaf for several years." 



The specimens Mr. Payne sent have very short pedicels, and closely conform 

 to the type. 



E. amplifolia is not a big tree as a iule; it is usually a denizen of swamps, and 

 when occurring on the sides of hills, theie is probably subterranean water. It has a 

 comparatively soft timber, which is stated to be usually inferior in quality. The 

 juvenile foliage is very coarse, and the. branchlets quadrangular. 



Its flowers are sessile or with very short pedicels ; often many in the head, at least 

 up to twenty-one, although only up to fifteen in the type. They are sometimes arranged 

 in a stellate manner. There is often a double operculum on each bud, the outer one 

 paler. In consequence of the double operculum the calyx tube is of greater diameter 

 than the operculum. Often the operculum is curved. 



The fruit is small and domed, with the valves much exsert, and often taking on 

 an incurved or clawed appearance. 



It often flowers in the sapling stage, i.e., when quite small. 



