12 O-ECANO. Eucalyptus «imat<iute>tm l^YaL™*' 



clear. £axr Bathurst was Secretary tor War and the Colonies from about 

 1312 to 1827 when he became LofO President of the Council (1828-30).^ 



To sum up this aspect, the evidence seems strong that the seed oi i:. 

 coma.ldnltnsis came frutn the Lachlatl near Cuttdobolin and was collected by 

 Charles Fraser. 



Now as regards The photograph of the type eivwi by T. G- B Osborn 

 in Iht* Proceedings of the tinman Society a) New South Wales (Vol. 62, 

 1937, Pts. 1-2, Plate IV), Maiden identified the lype i« the Vienna Hcr- 

 baiium in 1902 as E rostrate. Why did he not implement his identification? 

 He seems to have had no doubt and Mr R H. Anderson, Chief BoUnin 

 and Curator, National Herbarium, Sydney, assures me that he has no 

 doubt about the identification The buds of nearly iff, but not (flrft* 3tl t of 

 the River Red Cunis, hi localities lhat could have been visited before 1322, 

 -lie markedly rostrate even in the early stage. The \>wU deputed in the 

 photograph are conico-acuminate, but not rostrate. No one intimately ac- 

 OoVuiccd wdh the Rtvcr Red Ouiu would at first siKrhi recognize it from 

 the photograph, 



1 have been m cot re^pondem-i- with Mr. Anderson and have his permission 

 to <|«ole from hi* letters, as follows- 



"We have given a good oral of consideration to the nuestton of the correct 

 name for the River Red Gum, This ha.\ involved a review of ttit whole range 

 ot sanation within the specie* and the distribution 01 the vanou-s forms- _ 

 The River Red Gum include* a mimhcr oi more or less intergradintj ge.o- 

 graphic and ecological races, but all of these arc readily distihguUhed, when 

 unaffected by hybridisation, I row other red Rum species, providing complete 

 material iff available. The fruit shape is characteristic, and it iv. unfortunate 

 that the type of fi. ctiman1nleusKf was devoid of fruits. The bud shape shows 

 a certain variability, but in most areas the opercnltiut is fundamentally 

 hemispherical in outline, with a beak-like process which may vary con- 

 siderably in length, being almost absent in some forms, (The shape* of 

 both buds and huits are very constant on any one tree) However, trees 

 may be found hi which the operculum li more elongated and these are 

 especially common m two area* The first of these is |n£ marginal Jtonc at 

 the eastern limit oi the range of the River Red Gum, and the more conical 

 operculum hcrv Ketns to be always correlated with certain features oi 

 juvenile and mature leaver, pedicels and fruit shape which appear to indicate 

 hybridisation with F htoktfyi, 11. IciciiLftrni.i and occasionally H. dcnttKtta. 

 To other words, these trees arc not "pure' 1 Raver Red Gum. The second 

 area includes the Barrier Range area of New South Wales, where two 

 d^mutiv^,faA4irt--at— Rivia^Rtd-Guii) -occur, alou^U small, creeks In one o* 

 these there i* a decided tendency to a more conical operculum not associated 

 with any indication oi hybridity. 



''As well as these, however, occasional trees are found in other areas 

 (fg. on the Lacblin River around Condobolm. NSW 1 ) which *re quite 

 characteristic River Red Gurus, but nevertheless have a rather conical 

 operculum. In these cases there is no evidence of hybridisation and the trees, 

 seem lo be merely individual variant; . . 



"The specimen is an undoubted red gum (leaf-ihape, venation, inflorci* 

 eence, bud>). It ts not a River Red Cum oi the most usual form foycrcula 

 are more conical). It has no fruits or juvenile leaves. It has long pedicels 

 >nd is not a good match in general appearance for the n>ual River Red Cum.' 1 ' 

 The b»»ds are immature, but couW agree unite well with boiuc of the forms 

 with conical ontTcula mentioned above, but would not agree with any other 

 ml gum species, 



'There is no doubt thai the trees described by Cunningham as arching 

 OKr the river were River Red Cum Many old trees alonjr I he Laclitan. a> 

 •*lor\e ollici inland stieams. do have a considerable jimount of old rough 



* Other red ft"" ftjrWIifci 



