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In examining the catalogues of good Australian firms, I find the following given 

 under E. fici folia : — 



1 . " Red-flowering Gum," 20 feet. This colour may mean any thing. 



2. Scarlet, 15 feet; " Scarlet-flowering Gum," 15 feet. Scarlet is correct. 



3. Crimson, 20 feet; Crimson-flowered Gum, 20 feet; " Bright Crimson," 15-20 

 feet. This may or may not be a confusion with scarlet, as begun by Mueller; I shall 

 have something to say about a Crimson-flowering Gum presently. Pee also p. 79. 



Then one firm has :— 



6. " Scarlet-flowering Gum, 15 feet, literally a blaze of beautiful rich crimson 

 shade." 



In examining the catalogues of Australian nurserymen I cannot find one which 

 describes the colour of E. calophylla correctly. It should be white. One firm calls 

 it " rich pink." 



Several firms, however, have E. calophylla rosea in their lists, either without 

 comment, or " Bright pink, 30 feet," or " Similar to E. ficijolia, but rosy pink flowers." 



I think this view of the case is correct; the rose- or crimson-flowering forms, 

 which are large-growing (getting size from their calophylla parent, and their colour 

 more or less from their ficijolia parent). The habit of these trees reminds me more 

 strongly of E. calophylla than of E. ficijolia, and as to colour, we have them of all 

 shade? of the faintest blush-pink (almost white) to deep crimson. 



The flowers of E. ficifolia and E. calophylla are honey -smelling, the perfume 

 heavy and oppressive in a room. They flower mostly in December and January, and 

 the climatic conditions in Sydney during the last season have induced an exceptionally 

 fine display of bloom. 



I have received from Dr. Prior flowers, fruits and seeds of what I call No. 1. 

 The flowers are Tyrian Rose in colour; see Plate No. 155 of Rep. de Couleurs. There 

 is a short, white attachment to the anther, which is creamy-white in colour, with a line 

 of Tyrian Rose running round the back, and this colour is sometimes blurred. When 

 old, the anther-cells inside take a pinkish shade. The pollen is creamy-white 



In Proc. Boy. Soc. Qdd.,x, 17 (1893), the late F. M. Bailey described " what is 

 probably an accidental sport" in the Melbourne Botanic Gardens, with flowers of a " deep 

 rose " as E. ficifolia \ ar. Guiljoylei . . . "It proved to be only a form of E. ficifolia 

 differing from the normal plant in its smaller foliage, more compact inflorescence, different 

 colour of flowers, with prominent umbo to the operculum and slight difference of seed- 

 wing. I have received specimens of this form both from the late Mr. Guilfoyle and 

 from Mr. J. Cronin. The yellow anthers contrast well with the filaments. The calyx- 

 tubes are urceolate and apple-green, and both on account of the contrast of filaments 

 with anthers and calyx-tubes, the effect in the mass is most charming. 



