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12 months after the founding of the Gardens. They were presented 
by Dr. Schomburg of Adelaide and consisted of packets of seed of 
the following varieties : — E. alpina ; E. amygdalina ; E. calophylla ; 
E. coriacea ; E. empetrifolia ; E. ficifolia ; E. globulus ; E. Lehmanni' r 
E. margin at a ; E. oblique; E, piperita; E. unifera and an unnamed 
species from Tasmania. . 
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Seed of E. tereticornisl were received in June, 1876, from the Botanic 
Gardens of Rockhampton and at the same time plants were received 
of E. engenoides from the same Gardens. In addition to the already 
mentioned varieties, the following were received from time to time: — 
k. citriodora, goniocalyx , rostrata, siderophloia and viminalis from the 
Gardens, Brisbane in July, 1877. E. Baileyii from the Queensland 
Arboricultural Society in 1878; plants of E. longifolia and cornuta in 
1878, from the Botanic Gardens, Brisbane ; E. callosa, haematostoma r 
pilularis and pankulata, from the Botanic Gardens, Adelaide, in 1879 
and so on, practically every year, in ever increasing variety down to the 
present year. (I have enumerated a few of the many varieties received 
in order that there may be no doubt about all or nearly all the 
varieties, which had any likelihood of success in this climate, being 
tried.) 
Jt would seem quite permissable therefore, to imagine that there 
ought to be a considerable number of large trees in the Gardens at 
the present time, but such is indeed far from being the case. Out of 
the many hundreds of packets of seed which must have been pre- 
sented to the Gardens during their existence, only one specimen of 
any dimension is to be found in the Upper Garden E. intermedia 1 
was planted on rising ground adjacent to the bandstand. It is now 
a tree of about sixty feet tall and has a circumference of six feet at a 
distance of three feet from the ground. 
The situation must be described as being dry and favourable to 
the growth of plants requiring such an one (I have been unable to 
trace “intermedia” in any of the treatises on the genus but as this 
tree has lately flowered, specimens have been prepared .in order that 
the correct determination may be arrived at). 
In the Economic Garden, eleven trees are to be found. Seven of 
those were planted adjacent to Bukit Tiinah Road. It is probably well 
known that this land is frequently covered with water and at no 
time is the water deeper than about eighteen inches from the surface. 
The trees do not look healthy and all that can be said of them is that 
they have merely existed. They are about forty feet in height un- 
branched and with extremely few leaves on the crowns. 
The other four were planted adjacent to the Subordinates Quarters 
i.e. on rising ground. They are practically in a similar state to the other 
seven and all are slowly dying. No particulars can be obtained as to 
when those 11 trees were planted nor have I been able to identify 
them (specimens have also been prepared for identification). 
