DESCRIPTION. 



CCIV. E. Torelliana F.v.M 



In Fragmenta x, 106 (1877). 



Following is a translation of the original :- 



A tall tree, with terete branchlets and petioles hispid-scabrous, leaves broad, or cordate-ovate, 

 scattered or here and there opposite, deep green on the upper side, somewhat distantly ponninerved , 

 scanlily hispid, the peripheral vein distant from the margin, terminal panicles many-flowered, 

 glabrous, the ultimate peduncles strong, angular, and mostly rather long, pedicels very short, the 

 lube of the exangular calyx canrpanulate -serai-ovate, twice as long as the depressed hemispherical 

 and hardly apiculate operculum, stamens bent in before expansion, anthers oblong with parallel 

 cells dehiscing along their whole length, stigm a barely dilated, ovary 3-celled. 



Near Trinity Bay : Fitzalan. 



Branchlets fairly strong, covered with a darkish indument. Petioles about 1J inches long or 

 a little longer. Leaves rather papery than coriaceous, 2-3 inches long, li— 2 inches broad, on the 

 under side rather pale-green, but not, however, becoming paler, on neither side very shiny, not 

 acuminate, but plentifully dotted with pellucid oil-bearing glands, conspicuously hispid as far as 

 the nerves, and traversed by veins and veinlets. Panicles with spreading branches; the ultimate 

 peduncles crowded, rarely exceeding 1-J inches at the point of expansion and often shorter. The 

 calyx tube about 3 lines long; operculum shining, smooth, hardly more than 2 lines broad. I have 

 no opened flowers. Anthers below the apex, at the back thickened with a gland. Fruits unknown. 



I have given to the species the name of Count L. de Torelli, a member of the Italian Senate, 

 who, under ro.yal patronage, established a plantation of Eucalypts in the Pontine marshes, in 

 order (to endeavour) to suppress malaria. 



[Count Torelli was author of a small work " L'Eucalyptus e Roma "J (Rome, 1879). 



Mueller did not describe the mature leaves, although he thought he had done 

 so; what he described were the juvenile leaves (see figs. 2a, 2b, 3a of Plate 160). The 

 mature leaves are shown at 2c and 2d of the same Plate, and may be described as 

 petiolate, lanceolate, acuminate, say 10-15 cm, long, with a maximum width of 

 2 cm. ; venation tending to be pinnate. 



The fruits, which were unknown to Mueller, are spheroid-urceolate, high 

 shouldered, with a marked rim; contracted at the orifice, about 7 mm. in diameter. 

 The species was not figured in " Eucalyptographia. " 



" Branches spreading. Young leaves round and hispid, older leaves narrow 

 and elongated. All young trees up to 20-30 feet in height carry the rounded hispid 

 leaf in early leaf -growth; these become narrow and elongated." 



