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CXXXIX. E. Gunmi Hook. f. 



SYNONYM. 



E. Whittingehamensis Hort., in "Kew Handbook of Trees and Shrubs," p. 395 

 (1902), under the reference E. umigera Hook, f., Gard. Chron. 1888, iii, 460, f. 64. 



The name is spelt erroneously in horticultural literature as Whittinghame and 

 Whittingham. The tree which bears the above name is growing at Whittingehame, 

 near Prestonkirk, .Scotland, the ancestral home of the Right Honourable the Earl of 

 Balfour, K.G., and his sister (the Lady Alice Balfour) has not only provided me with 

 a suite of specimens, but has also informed me that the tree arose from seed collected 

 by the late Marquis of (Salisbury, K.G., when he visited Tasmania. That year was 

 1852. Later on it will be seen that the date of the tree was given as 1845, but that 

 must have been from memory. 



It was figured in Gardeners' Chronicle, at pp. 460, fig. 64, 461, fig. 65, 14th April- 

 1888, as E. umigera Hook. f. A twig was shown without juvenile leaves and the fruit 

 not quite ripe, also an excellent wood-cut showing the tree itself. The Journal says : 

 ' We suspect the tree now figured is the one alluded to by Rev. D. Landsborough in 

 the Trans. Bot. Edin. 1887, p. 21, under the name of E. Gunnii." This evoked a reply 

 from Dr. Landsborough in the issue of 12th May, 1888, p. 595, part of which was as 

 follows : — 



" You were right in supposing that it was to it that I alluded in my paper to the Edinburgh 

 Botanical Society which appeared in the Transact ions, and also in the Gardeners' Chronicle (27th 

 November and 4th December, 1886). In it I mentioned that 'it was planted (? sown) at Whittinghame 

 in 1845, was cut down to the ground by frost in I860, and is now more than 60 feet in height.' ■' 



It produces fertile seed, which is a remarkable thing for a Eucalyptus tree to 

 do in Scotland. He then proceeds to say that botanists gave it no less than four different 

 names : — 



1. E. viminalis. 



2. E. Gunnii. 



3. E. umigera (already referred to). 



4. E. cordata, " of which E. umigera is a variety. Both E. cordata and 



E. cordata var. umigera grow in Arran." (Dr. Landsborough.) 



E. cordata is a species quite distinct from E. umigera, but all four species are 

 recorded here for convenience. It is not E. viminalis, as the juvenile leaves and fruits 

 are very different, neither is it E. cordata (see Part XIX of the present work). There 

 remain E. Gunnii and E. umigera. For E. Gunnii see Plates 108 and 109, Part XXVL 

 and for E. umigera see Plate 80, Part XVIII, of the present work. 



I have no doubt that the determination originally cited by Dr. Landsborough 

 (probably made by Kew) is the correct one. The chief difficulty concerning this Scotch 

 introduced tree as between E. Gunnii and E. umigera lies in the fact that, although 

 it produces fertile seed, the shape of the fruit is always a little pinched or slender 

 as compared with that of the typical Tasmanian tree. Or, on the other hand, the 



