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DESCRIPTION. 



CLXXIV. E. cornuta Labill., 



Voij. i, 403, t. 20 (1799). 



This is the Voyage in search of La Perouse, and the full title is given in my paper in 

 Proc. Roy. Soc., N.S.W. xliv, 127 (1910). 



There is an English translation in " Voyage in search of La Perouse .... 

 during the years 1791, 1792, 1793, and 1794," by M. Labillardiere. Translated from 

 the French. London (John Stockdale, Piccadilly), 1800. At p. 263 we have 



I gathered a new species of very tall (saillante) Eucalyptus, of which the following is a description : — 



The most elevated twigs of that shrub are not above 13 feet in height. They are smooth, are 

 furnished, chiefly towards the extremity, with leaves, alternate, oval, elongated, slightly bent, and about 

 4 inches in length. 



The flowers are sessile, and generally eight or ten in number, at the extremity of a common peduncle, 

 about an inch and one-fifth (3 cm.) in length, having all the characters of the genus Eucalyptus. Their 

 stamina (stamens), which are very numerous, have long filaments of a yellow (fawn) colour. The style 

 projects a little over the stamina (stamens). 



The calyx is very much elongated, and is pushed outwards by the stamina (stamens;, in proportion 

 as they are developed, and it falls when they have acquired their full growth. 



The capsule is open at top, and furnished with three cells and sometimes four. It is surmounted 

 by a small portion of the base of the style, which is divided into as many parts as there are cells. 



Every cell contains a great number of angular seeds. The form of the calyx (operculum) has induced 

 me to give it the name of the Eucalyptus cornuta. 



There is a brief Latin description in the same author's Plantarum Specimen, 

 ii, 121 (1804-6). A similarly brief description by Schauer will be found in Lehmann's 

 Plantae Preissianae, i, 127, in which the species is recorded from Cape Kiche, with 

 Herb. Preiss, Xo. 238. 



It is described by Bentham in B. Fl. iii, 234, and figured by Mueller in 

 " Eucalyptographia." 



Yeit ... a species of the extensive Eucalyptus family, with a dark, rough, netted bark, and 

 is always welcomed by the traveller, as growing in good soil, and amongst grass. (Surveyor General J. S. 

 Roe in Hooker's 3 own. Bot. vi, 45 (1854). 



The bark of the upper part of the stem is often smooth and pale from lamellar secedence, but on the 

 lower portion of the stem and occasionally even highly upwards it is dark and rugged from complete 

 persistency, becoming sometimes as rough as that of the Ironbark trees. . . . It is one of those species 

 which bears flowers and fruit while still a shrub (" Eucalyptographia.") 



' The Yate " as a young tree is a Grey Gum, i.e., with bark not so smooth as 

 a White Gum. 



A tree of medium size, is spreading in habit, and has rough, boxy, fibrous, dark 

 bark, with vertical fissures close to each other, limbs ribbony and smooth. 



