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No. 5. 
Eucalyptus longifolia, Link. 
The Woolly Butt. 
(Natural Order MYRTACE^E.) 
Botanical description. —Genus, Eucalyptus, L’ Heritier. 
Calyx-limb. —Concrete into a lid (operculum), separating circutnsciss from the tube. 
Petals. —None (or concrete with the calyx-lid). 
Stamens .—Numerous, in several rows, mostly free, usually inflexed in the bud 
Ovidary .—Two to six celled. 
Style. —U ndivided. 
Fruit .—A capsule, opening at the top into 3 to 6 valves. 
Seeds. —Numerous, but comparatively few fertile. 
Hardwood trees, usually quite glabrous. 
Leaves. —Usually alternate, mostly vertical, and more or less falcate ; usually thick, pinnately 
veined, almost always with an intermarginal vein. The leaves on the young seedling plants 
usually opposite, differently shaped and glaucous. 
Flowers .—Usually white, in simple or paniculate umbels, and without bracts. 
Botanical description. —Species, E. longifolia, Link and Otto. 
Following is the original description :— 
217. E. longifolia .—Foliis lanceolatis basi inrequalibus hinc rotundatis acumine incurvo, ramulis 
axillaribus apice multifloris. Hab. in Australia. T. Ptami rubri. Fol. deflexa ut in multis, 
petiolo 12" longo, lamina 6', ad ped lg. 1' 8" lata, basi insequalia praesertim inferiora rami, 
quifi quoque breviora latiora, longissime acutata punctata. Rami 1-2' Igi. deflexi turn foliis 
2 brevibus instructi inter quos pedunculi tres 1' 6" longi. Operculum conicum. Aff. 
E. resiniferaj at ped. longiores. (Link in Enum. Hort. Berol. ii, 29.) 
Following is the description by Bentham, taken from his “ Flora Aus- 
tralicnsis ” :— 
E. longifolia (Link and Otto, Ic. PI. Sel. 97, t. 45).*—A tree with a rough fibrous persistent 
or partially deciduous bark (F. Mueller ), somewhat smooth or fibrous and wrinkled according 
to the age of the tree ( Woods). 
Leaves .—Lanceolate, usually long and falcate, often exceeding G inches, the veins fine and 
divergent, but rather distant, the intramarginal one not far from the edge. 
Peduncles .—Axillary or lateral, usually recurved with three, or very rarely four, rather large 
pedicellate flowers. 
Calyx-tube. —Turbinate, thick and hard, sometimes slightly angular, 1 to 5 lines long, and as 
much in diameter. 
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This excellent plate precludes all doubt as to the identity of Link and Otto’s spcciesi 
