THE AUSTRALASIAN 
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No. 7.] 
JULY, 1886. 
[Vol. I. 
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DESCRIPTION OF AN HITHERTO UNRECORDED SPECIES 
OF EUCALYPTUS FROM NEW BRITAIN ; 
By Bakon Yon Muellee, X.C.M.G., M. & Ph.D., F.R.S., F.C.S. &c. 
In a small collection of plants, formed some time ago in New Britain by Mr. 
J. Turner, occurs what to all appearance is a veritable species of Eucalyptus, a 
genus not previously known as represented there, although the Rev. G. Brown 
spoke already of Eucalypts, noticed by him in New Ireland during his mis- 
sionary travels. The closer investigation of the Flora of New Guinea more 
recently has rendered the comparison of the Papuan vegetation with that of 
Australia gradually possible at least to a fractional extent ; thus any Australian 
features in the Flora of any of the adjacent islands have become of augmented 
interest also now. But the Eucalyptus, referred to on this occasion, interests 
us not merely phytogeographically, but more particularly as likely affording 
timber of useful quality and in copious readily available quantity, eucalypts 
often being gregarious ; and we may furthermore perhaps gain in this tall 
species a new tree for tropical forest- culture and possibly even for medicinal 
products. 
Eucalyptus Naudiniana. — Branchlets valid, angular ; leaves scattered, on 
short broadish stalks, ovate-lanceolar, acuminate, much paler beneath ; their 
primary veins distant, thin, very spreading and somewhat ascending, the 
peripheral vein not quite close to the edge of the leaf ; veinlets subtle ; oil-dots 
much concealed ; panicles ample, terminal or from the upper axils ; flowers 
small, nine or often fewer in each umbel ; stalklets angular, as long as the 
total calyx or somewhat longer ; tube of the latter hemispheric, slightly angular ; 
lid hardly longer, almost semiglobular, suddenly produced into a thin beak- 
like apex ; stamens all fertile and all inflected while in bud ; anthers minute 
roundish-ovate, bursting longitudinally; style short; stigma not dilated; ovary 
surpassed by the calyx-tube, somewhat convex and angular at the summit. 
Near Spacious Bay; J. Turner. The specimens communicated by Ch. Moore, 
Esq., F.L.S., Director of the Botanic Garden of Sydney. A tree, attaining a height 
of about 100 feet. Leaves usually 3—4 inches long, If — If inches broad, slightly 
inequilateral, not very thick in texture, dark-green and shining above, quite dull 
beneath. Panicles measuring from a few to several inches, the majority of their 
branches not opposite. Total length of the calyces hardly more than J inch. 
Stamens very numerous. Style only about f inch long. Fruit unknown. This 
species bears in some respect near affinity to E. Cloeziana; but the branchlets 
are much thicker, the leaf-stalks dilated upwards, the leaves broader, less 
oblique and of firmer structure with a soft lustre on the surface, the branches 
of the panicle and also the stalklets are more angular, while the lid is conspicu- 
