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MAURITIUS. 
For a note on E. calophylla R.Br., see Kew Report for 1878, p. 3G. 
E. maculata var. citriodora oil from Mauritius. See Bull. Imp. Imt., xi, 48 
(1913). 
WEST TROPICAL AFRICA. 
In Kew Report for 1881, p. 12, it is stated (as expected) that E. globulus docs 
not succeed, but that " E. Baileyqna thrives wonderfully well, also E. acmenioides and 
E. resinifera." Years ago E. globulus, the pet species, was sent to all parts of the world, 
often with little consideration as to whether it had the remotest prospect of succeeding. 
For E. globulus in West Africa, see also Kew Reports for 1873, p. 5, and 1881, p. 12. 
MOLONEY, A. "Sketch of the Forestry of West Africa." (Sampson Low, 
1887.) At p. 224 is an account of experimental Eucalyptus plantations. 
A. ZIMMERMAN discusses the question of planting Eucalypls for the purpose 
of draining the soil, in German tropical colonies. While urging experiments, he suggests 
that E. rostrata, E. robusta, E. resinifera, and E. cornuta may be suitable, and eliminates 
E. globulus. See Der Pflanzer, ix, 107 (1913). 
At Amani (German colony of South West Africa ?) of all the Eucalypts planted 
there E. citriodora, metadata, resinifera, and amygdalina have made the best growth. 
E. corymbosa, robusta, goniocalyx, microcorys, paniculata, rostrata, melliodora, salubris, 
pilularis, also made good wood. (Der Pflanzer, x, 54 (1914). ) 
ARGENTINE. 
ABERG, E. " Irrigacion y Eucalyptus," 8vo, p. 103, Buenos Aires, 1874. 
This was a pioneer work, and the following touching letter to me, dated 16th June, 1902, 
from this old pioneer, is full of instruction : 
I had onoe, as it turned out later, the very foolish idea to form in this country, so little civilised 
it then was, a small botanic garden with special regard to the genus Eucalyptus. In my endeavours to 
introduce and promote the cultivation of these magnificent fast-growing trees on its vast plains without 
a tree to shade or shelter for thousands and thousands of square miles, I had of course to make a selection 
of those which seemed most liable to adapt themselves to existing conditions of climate and soil. My 
aim was accordingly to collect all the species I could get hold of and by cultivation ascertain their resistance 
to cold, drought, saline soil, of which there is much in the south, &c. 
But besides this there was another motive of nearly equal importance, that is to say, to try by a 
scientific determination to do away with the existing great confusion of species, the seeds of many of these 
having come with nothing but their vernacular names and other errors. To mention but one instance. 
I had got one labelled yopulijolia. which later on I was able to determine to be polijanlhemos, one of the 
most suited to this country, as I found it to be the only one self-sowing. All that was many years ago in 
the sixties and early seventies of last century. 
I was at that time in frequent correspondence with the Baron F. von Mueller, and he had the kindness 
to send me seeds of some of the rarer kinds; from Vilmorin in Paris I obtained all he was able to procure, 
and still others 1 got from some Italian nurserymen hero, in all a splendid collection of about ninety species. 
Now, after the lapse of more than thirty years, only fancy what they might have been ! Quite the thing, 
I suppose, from which to collect herbarium specimens for you; another source for me to deplore my 
misfortune. 
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