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for fome time been ignorant, was firft publifhed in the 
Hortus Kewenjis, vol. 2. 157. The original fpecies there 
mentioned is named obliqua, and a figure of it is given in 
M. L’Heritier’s Sertum Anglicum^ tab. 20 ; but the de* 
fcription has not yet appeared. Having lately received 
fpecimens from New South Wales of five more very 
diftindl fpecies, we fhall now attempt to charadlerize 
them, firft defcribing more fully that exhibited in our 
plate. 
'Eucalyptus robujla is one of the largefi; and loftiefi: of 
trees, frequently 100 feet in height ; its wood hard, heavy 
and ftrong, of a reddifli colour, and abounding with refin. 
Branches round below, covered with fmooth bark, very 
angular towards the extremity. Leaves alternate, on 
footftalks, firm, fmooth, with a ftrong rib and fine pa- 
rallel veins, ovate, pointed, entire, generally oblique, and 
often a little unequal at the bafe, but not univerfally fo. 
Stipulce none. Umbels on flower-ftalks, frequently from 
the axillae of the leaves, and folitary, fometimes two or 
more together, forming a fort of alternate racemus., and 
fometimes fuch racemi terminate the branches. Bradlece 
none. General Jiower-Jlalk an inch or more in length, 
comprefled, two-edged, dilated upwards ; partial ones 
about eight or ten together, nearly of the fame form, but 
much ftiorter, fingle-flowered, dilated into the bafe of 
the calyx. Flowers yellowifli, occafionally with a red 
tinge. Calyx obconical, fometimes round, often two- or 
even four-edged, entire ; lid rather more than equal to 
it in length, fwelling above the bafe, then fuddenly con- 
