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3. E. purpuraseens Link, var. petiolaris, foliis louge petiolatis lato-lanceolatis. 



E. oppositifolia Desf. cat. Iwrt., p. 1804, p. 422. Ramuli teretes, petioli 

 nervique folioruni fusco-purpurascentes. Folia 3-4 poll, longa pollicem 

 lata basi inaequaliter attenuata marginibus nervulo cinctis. (De Candolle, 

 Prodromus hi, 221.) 



Through the kindness of M. Casimir De Candolle I have examined the original 

 specimen, which is in the opposite-leaved stage. The oiiginal label is " Eucalyptus, 

 Jardin Noisette, 11 Juill. 1818," and endorsed " 42 E. purpuraseens Lk., var. petiolaris, 

 DC." It is E. corymbosa Sm., and the name purpuraseens is obtained, as the name 

 indicates, from the purple venation and petioles. 



(E. purpuraseens var. petiohdata DC. is E. amygdalina Labill. See Part IX, 

 p. 151, of the present work. ) 



4. E. longifolia Link. 



A very fair drawing of a fruit of E. corymbosa is in Herb. Cant. It has a label 

 bearing also the words : — " E. longifolia Lk., non Lindl. in Heward's Herbarium. Was 

 gathered by A. Cunningham close under Blue Mountain, Waragamba " (i.e., a few miles 

 west of Penrith, N.S.W.). 



What is E. corymbosa Hofhnannsegg ? 



I do not know what E. corymbosa Hoffmg. is, and as the work in which it is 

 published is very rare, I transcribe what he says about it :— 



(428) Eucalyptus corymbosa. Mea planta E. obliquae ita siniilis, ut primo intuitu eadeni fere videatur. 

 Attentius tamen examinata difiert : Caule ramisque, praesertirn adultis, stellato-pubescentibus, foliis 

 adultis omnibus parumper magis subrepandis, inferioribus demuni scabiiusculis, rnargineque, praesertim ad 

 basin, scabro-, imo subspinuloso-ciliatis. At haec omnia in recentibus partibus non obvia, qua? igitur in 

 ambabus Spp. simillimae. Tamen et substantia in E. c. aliquanto minus rigide coriacea ac in E. o. mini 

 videtur, sed folia non lanceolata nisi summa nondum adulta ; reliqua ramea, ut minimum, oblonga, 

 perfectiora vero, ramos stipantia, fere vel ovata dicenda. 4-5' lg. 2' It. (Hoffmg. Verz. Pji-. Nachtr. 2, p. 113 ) 



RANGE. 



The type came from Port Jackson, at the site of modern Sydney, New South 

 Wales. Bentham (B.FL iii, 256) extends its New South Wales range from Twofold 

 Bay, near the Victorian border, to the Richmond River, near the Queensland border. 

 In Queensland he gives it as far north as Rockhampton. All his localities are coastal. 



Mueller, in the " Eucalyptographia," records its range from the "vicinity of the 

 Genoa River (north-eastern Victoria) to Rockingham Bay (Queensland, say 18 deg. S. 

 lat. ), on dry ridges and hills or in open forest ground, ascending to considerable 



