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its adaptability to a warm wet clime, and grew under Dr. 
Bonavia’s care better than any other species in Oude ; the technic 
value of its timber remained unascertained.” (Op. cit. under 
E. robusta.) 
The first reference is in Part I of the ‘‘ Kucalyptographia’”’ 
(1879). Indeed, under E. hcemastoma in the same work, 
Mueller definitely gives the date 1879 for EH. Kirtoniana. 
The second reference is in Part VII. Later on (in some 
editions of his ‘“‘Select extra-tropical plants’’) Mueller 
obviously looked upon it as a form of EH. resinifera. 
The description is unsatisfactory as measured by modern 
standards, but it is backed by herbarium specimens, and so, 
whatever the opinions of botanists as to its relationships 
may be, we know precisely the plant to which Mueller 
referred. 
The specimens seen by me are labelled as follows :— 
1. “EH. punctata, DO. (E. Kirtoniana, F.v.M.). Kirton, 
Illawarra.’’ <A piece from the Melbourne Herbarium, 
received from the late Mr. J. G. Luehmann. 
2. “E. punctata (E. Kirtoniana, F.v.M.). Lucknow, India. 
(Cult.)’’ 
3. ‘‘Lucknow. Comm. Dr. Brandis, July 1877.”’ 
Nos. 2 and 3 are identical. No. 2 was presented to the 
Sydney Herbarium by Mr. Luehmann, and No. 3, which 
bears the original label ‘‘ HE. resinifera,’’ bears also the 
label in pencil “HE. Kirtoniana, Mull, cf. H. rudis.”’ No. 3 
was presented by Kew to the Sydney Herbarium in April, 
1901. 
I exhibit all three specimens. 
Owing to Mueller’s recommendation of it as a species 
especially adapted for tropical cultivation, it has been 
extensively cultivated, particularly in Northern India, and 
to a less extent in North Africa. 
