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DESCRIPTION. 



CCCXIII. E. Milligani R. M. Johnston. 



In Papers and Proc. Boy. Soc. Tasmania, p. 336, Plate ii, fig. 4 (1885). 

 Following is the original description : — 



Leaves ovate-lanceolate or lanceolate, mucronate acute, with very numerous fine transverse 

 parallel veins, the intrarnarginal one scarcely distant from the edge. The lateral parallel veins emerge 

 and radiate gently outwards and upwards. This species more closely approaches the existing Eucalyptus 

 jicifolia of Western Australia than to existing species in Tasmania, or to the described fossil species > 

 E. Kayseri rnihi, and E. Plvti McCoy. Large specimen*, 9 inches long when perfect, and 2| inches 

 broad at greatest diameti r. 



Supposed locality : Tertiary leaf beds, Macquarie Harbour (Tasmania). 



See also the same author's " Geology of Tasmania," p. 293 and fig. 11. Plate 

 xxxix (1888). 



' The only Eucalypts (fossil) described by me up to the present time are 

 E. Kayseri and E. Milligani. The genus Eucalyptus, in our old Tertiary (Eocene) is 

 the most rare of all genera associated therewith. I have only come across two or three 

 casts among many thousands of representatives of other genera. The period in Tasmania 

 indicates the dawn of our Eucalypts of Australia." K. M. Johnston in letter to me of 

 21st January, 1918 (he died in March). 



Now we come to — 



" Beitrage zur Kenntniss der Tertiarflora Australiens," by Dr. Constantin v. 

 Ettingshausen. The original (Part I) appeared in Denkschriften der Math. Naturwiss. 

 K. Akad. Wiss., Wien., xlvii Bde. (1883), and Part II, op. tit., liii Bde (1886). 



At p. 142, with Taf. vi, fig. IS of Part I, we have Eucalyptus Delftii, sp. n. (1883). 



In Part II (Zweite Folge) we have Eucalyptus Mitchelli, Diemenii (p. 51), 

 Houtmani, Hayi (p. 52), spp. n. (1886). 



The whole of the two Parts appeared in Sydney as — 



" Contributions to the Tertiary Flora of Australia," by Dr. Constantin, Baron von 

 Ettingshausen. Translated to form Mem. Geol. Survey, N.S.W. Edited by B. 

 Etheridge, Jnr., as No. 2 of the Palaeontology Series (1888). 



I take the following notes from this translation : — 



"Although :he Tertiary Flora of Australia deviates very much -from the living one, we find 

 numroni points of connection between them. . . . Eucalyptus (is) represented by species more or 

 les3 closely related to living Australian forms " (p. 81). See also p. 4- and the late Mr. 0. S. Wilkinson"s 



