10 The Vithwm Jj^JmriSN [ Wrt 



EUCALYPTUS CAMALDULENS1S AND E. LONGIROSTRIS (ROSTRATA) 



By J. B. Clelanu. c.K.h.., m.d. 



to 1*32. Dehnbardt (CnK ti Hort Camahhd. £<«>. 2 40; published fa 

 description of E. tuuutiriutttisis The tree was (hen 40 feet high and 10 

 years old. (See Reu/.o A&ostitu. "Cemn Stotici SulU lutiodtiXione DegU 

 Ewcatiui ill Iwlia" in L'ftoltu f'-ovrstni*: *; Ahm(ona t At\nf> t'ltl, pt$c. rt. A— 

 Moyt/io-Giagiw, l?$Jt; i-o). Agostini says that Ure Horteis CauialOulcu^s 

 Ufttt situated on the hill oi Vomero (Naples) Pq a charming position henveen 

 the hills of Camaldoli and Posillif o and the Cult -of Naples, at l height of 

 <tbout 1/0 metres. It was attached to the v* tr 'ctan Country scar ot Francesco 

 Ricciarrli, Count of Cama|rJo-li, Agostini sa>< that the garden was thnrt- 

 hved and all the coralypt* rn it have completely disappeared since about 30 

 years ago when the majestic trees of the first planting, nearly 1 00 year* 

 "Id. were cut off. {Transition by Mrs. ZirmrMUei, Univeivty Library. 

 Adelaide.! 



Jn Dulntharill's Latin description. the operculum is given »s cnuioi- 

 acuminate and equalling the calyx Now one of the most striking feature* 

 of £ rostrattr Schlceht., the one vvlucb gave it its tpecihe name, is tl»e bt*li*xl 

 appearancr o* the operculum. It is true that on occasional tree.\, this 

 piiched-m *ir tc»ked appearance may not he manifest Every tree on the 

 plains round Adelaide- has probably a rostrate operculum, but trees occur 

 in the north or South Australia, with buds which are conical. The iititt i& 

 merely called globose with no mentton ok the valves. 



The flowering period is givco Ihus: Nov. Holl., Flor. Sep Oot. (tpiottng 

 Maiden) "E. rostmkt" in my experience flower* only between the end of 

 December, in jamjar) jnd ■» February 



Dehtihai-dt S&&3 that be received it -under the name of ti. pcrstafotui. but, 

 receiving the true E ptrsn:ijt>lui later, he perceived a great difference and lu: 

 coulil nut approach it to anything eJae. ti, pvrmctfofTa DC is jpven fcy 

 Dial <\- as a synonym of the BhtcWbult, E, pitnfarti. This. r£ course, at 

 once .stw^csts that lb* s,eed came from New South Wales Where eoutd the 

 seed of tftjs cwcalypt, planted in Italy in 1H2J, liavc come from, it it is 

 indeed the same species as E. rmtruttt Schlceht and h. Ummrtsihis F 

 Jfctetr.* 



En 1825. trie only parts of AitftaaHft where the specie* grows that had 

 been visited were Kangaroo Island {Robert Brown, Baudm — 1B02), the 

 head of Speuccr Gulf and Mt. Brown (Robert Brown, 1202). Port Phillip 

 (Grimes aud Fleming. 1&0J> and the western pitting of New South Wales 

 (Cunningham and Fraser. Lajchtan near Comfobnltn, 1817) 



The o»|ly jfoce On Kangaroo UUitd where E. canurfduh-nsis crows is on 

 the Cygnet River, even close down to its exit to the sea. Mr, H, M Cooper 

 the authority on Ihe South Australian part of the expeditions ol Flinders 

 ami oi Bnudin, assures mr that niemhers of* these did not visit the Cygnet 

 River or its imrnediate neighboorli^KJ, The hods on these txec/s $r»4 

 character istically rostrate, Robert Brown was put ashore from "Investv 

 Kator" probahly a 3 i trie north of Yaiala Harhour and made directly for Mt. 

 Rrown, some fifteen unk-s away, across the. plain between the Flintier? Ramre 

 and the <ra. Variou* creeks emerge from the Flhidcrc Range and cross, this 

 plain, <oiue fading" cut as they do so. though Ihe plain is only about ten or 

 twelve miles wide at its widest. Mr H. M. Cooper of the South Australian 

 Museum, and Mr. A. R. R. Htg£inson of Purl Augusta, who know ttyb 

 h>caiity well a»:d have studiod Ihe probable route taken by Robert Brown, 

 were at first doubtful vhether al»e latter, making a straight course for the 

 tiM>unlain later named after him. must inevitably have crossed over one 

 of Ihese rreeVs, though he must at least have seen them ncn far off. However. 

 a special seatch by Jvlc. Hiegin^ou near the iooi Dt the range revealed a 

 small creek emerging near Horrocks' Pass which it seemed Robert Qrowo 



