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DESCRIPTION. 



CCV. E. corymbosa Smith. 



In " Botany of New Holland," Vol. I, p. 43 (1793). (This work is sometimes bound 

 up with a zoological portion, and then becomes " Zoology and Botany of New 

 Holland," by G. Shaw and J. E. Smith. ) 



Following is the original description : — 



E. corymbosa, operculo hemisphaerico inucronulato, umbellis coryniboso-paniculatis terniinalibus. 



Lid hemispherical, with a little point. Umbels panieled in a sort of terminal corynibus. 



This, when in flower, is the most magnificent of its genns. The leaves are lanceolate, 

 astringent and acrid, but scarcely at all aromatic. (N.B.— This is the first reference to the absence, 

 or almost absence, of oil in E. corymbosa. — J.H.M.) Flower-stalks all compressed. Lid somewhat 

 membranous. 



He redescribes it in Trans. Linn. Soc. iii, 287 (1797), embodying the brief Latin 

 description, and adds— 



The flowers are large and handsome, forming magnificent terminal panieled clusters of 

 umbels, by which this species is readily distinguished. Leaves lanceolate, coriaceous. Fruit 

 turbinate, the permanent calyx forming a very high urceolate border, the style remaining in the 

 centre of the cavity. 



It is described in Latin with a figure (Tab. 340) in Cavanilles' Icones, Vol. iv, 



p. 23, which is so exceedingly rare that it will be convenient to have a copy of the original, 



which follows : — 



Eucalyptus corymbosus. Tab. 340. (A portion of the figure is reproduced at Plate 161, fig. 4.) 



372. Eucalyptus foliis lanceolatis, petiolis. subalatis : floribus corymbosis. 



Caulis arboreus 20-Z0 pedes altus, ramis alternis, numerosis. 



Folia alterna petiolata, petiolo leviter alato, lanceolata cum acumine producto, uninervia 

 nervulis numerosissimis parallelis oblique ad primarium positis, nitida et nonnihil coriacea. 



Flores corymbosi terminales, corymbo ex pluribus umbellis 4 aut 5-floris. 



Calix turbinatus, integerrimus, coriaceus, truncatus, calyptra hemisphaerica decidua tectus, in 

 duas concamerationes diaphragmate partitus, in quorum inferiore germen, in superiore stamina dum 

 inflexa et clausa sunt calyptra. 



Staminum filamenta fere 80, limbo calicis variis ordinibus inserta, interiora breviora, exteriora, 

 semipollicem longa lutea ; antherae reniformes nutantes. 



Germen turbiuatum; stylus calice longior : stigma obtusum. 



Fructum non vidi, qui ex germine fecundato apparet capsula trilocularis. 



Habitat in nova-Hollandia prope oppidum Jackson, floretque Aprili. Ex eodem herbario. 



Explic. tab. a Calix calyptratus. b Idem calyjrtra dehiscente. c Idem staminibus erectis. 

 d Idem sectus ut appareat diaphragma sub quo jacet germen. e FOamentum aucturn,, j Germinia 

 aucti sectio transversalis. (Cavanilles Icones, Vol. iv, p. 23.) 



