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DESCRIPTION. 



CCCXCIII. x E. Mortoniana Kinney. 



Described in " Eucalyptus," p. 192 (1895), by Abbott Kinney, 

 Los Angeles, California, U.S.A. 



Leaves long-stalked, scattered, lanceolar or sickle-shaped, long and rather broad; equally dull green; 

 stalk compressed ; about the length of calyx-tube ; stalklet distinct ; calyx-tube rough, often slightly 

 ridged, top-shaped or truncate-ovate ; border of a tube has the appearance of a pot of some thick fluid 

 boiling over; lid hemispheric-acuminate, the point or beak of the lid is thick and long; buds flattened 

 and angular ; valves exscrted, generally four, or rarely three ; bark sheds in long strips. Genera] 

 appearance suggests E. globulus ; anthers oblong, opening by parallel slits, dorsal gland prominent, style 

 spotted, somewhat dilated towards top, stigma not dilated. 



Grown at Los Angeles, California, U.S.A. It is No. 237,908 in the United States 

 National Herbarium. I have figured leaf, bud and fruits in Part XVIII, Plate 80, 

 % 8. 



In the above part, p. 256, I have placed it as a synonym of E. Maideni, and I 

 regarded it as one of the large-fruited forms of that species. I now think it is distinct 

 from E. Maideni, and it seems to me to be more closely allied to E. McClatchie and 

 E. pseudo-glcbulus than to E. Maideni. 



RANGE. 



Besides the Los Angeles locality quoted above, I have received two specimens 

 from Miss Alice Eastwood, collected by herself and Eric Walther from Golden Gate 

 Park, San Francisco, July, 1921,- and February, 1922, which appear to be as near the 

 type of E. Mortoniana as we are likely to get. Miss Eastwood in a letter to me refers 

 to this species as follows :— " We had a specimen of E. Mortoniana sent us in a collection 

 made at the Forestry Station in Santa Monica ( ? the original tree of E. Mortoniana, 

 J.H.M.), and I have identified two trees in Golden Gate Park by means of it. The two 

 trees grow close together and are tall and handsome in general appearance, like E. globulus 

 for which they might be mistaken. The bark, especially at the base of the trunk, is 

 more persistent, and the young stems are brown instead of pale grey as in E. globulus- 

 The seedling leaves are not known." 



Under E. Cordieri Trabut, Part LII, Plate 213, figs. 3a and 3b, buds and fruit 

 of this species are depicted, and were attributed to E. Cordieri by mistake. They are 

 from No. 237, Herb. d'Algerie (Dr. Trabut), and were collected by M. Cordier, who 

 determined it as a hybrid of E. globulus. Dr. Trabut wrote across the label " x Eucalyptus 

 Cordieri, prob." thus indicating that he was uncertain of the determination. 



