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There is a note on the size of this tree at Wide Bay, Queensland, and on a planted 

 one in the Sydney Botanic Gardens, in Dr. George Bennett's " Gatherings of a Naturalist 

 in Australasia" (1860), p. 265. Dr. Bennett got Mr. Norrie, the Sydney chemist, to 

 distil the leaves for oil and the specimen was sent to Kew, and must have been one of 

 the earliest prepared from the species. 



SYNONYMS (of variety). 



1. E. citriodora Hooker, in Mitchell's Journ. Trop. Austral., 235. 

 A translation of the brief Latin description is as follows :— 



Branches angular, brownish, minutely tuberculate, leaves broad-lanceolate, petiolate, pinnulate, 

 spreading parallel veined, green (not glaucous). 



Then follows the statement : — • 



Sir William Hooker has ventured to name this Eucalyptus, though without flower or fruit, from 

 the deliciously fragrant lemon-like odour, which exists in the dry as well as the recent state of the plant. 



I have seen the following specimens : — ■ 



(a) " 1846, July 16, No. 153 bis. Sub-tropical New Holland, Lieut.-Col. Sir 

 T. L. Mitchell. Eucalyptus citriodora.''' 1 



(b) " 1846, July 17, No. 217. Height 6 feet. [Evidently young scrub, not yet 

 arrived at the flowering stage.— J.H.M.] Leaves perfumed like lemon. Sub-tropical 

 New Holland. Lieut.-Col. Sir T. L. Mitchell. Eucalyptus citriodora Hooker, 204." 



(c) " Eucalyptus citriodora Hook., Sub-tropical New Holland, Col. Mitchell." 

 All in Herb. Cant. All in leaf only; (6) in young leaf, (a) and (c) in older, broad, shining 

 and markedly veined. All are E. citriodora Hook. ; (a) and (6) are ex Herb. Lindley. 



Imperfect specimens were described by Bentham in B.F1. iii, 257, as E. citrio- 

 dora, from Balmy Creek, Mitchell, and Wide Bay, Moore. 



2. E. melissiodora Lindley in Mitchell's Journ. Trop. Austral., 235. (nonF.v.M., 



which = peltata.) 



The brief description is in Latin, which may be translated as follows : — • 



Branches ferruginous-tomentose, scabrous, leaves on both sides with rusty papillae, scabrous, 

 ovate oblong obtuse, peltate above the base (flowers and fruits unknown). 



I have examined the following specimens : — 



(a) " No. 153, July 16, 1846. Sub-tropical New Holland. Lieut.-Col. Sir T. L. 

 Mitchell. Height 5 feet. ' Strong balm scent,' Eucalyptus ? melissiodora." Herb. 

 Cant, ex Herb. Lindl. 



