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EUCALYPTUS longifolia. 
| Long-leaved Eucalyptus. 
ICOSANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Nat. ord. Mynracke. 
EUCALYPTUS L.—Cal. truncatus, in estivatione calyptra caduca 
tectus. Capsula infera, 4 locularis, polysperma. Spreng. syst. veg. 2.473. 
E. longifolia; operculo hemispheerico submutico, foliis lineari-lanceolatis bas! 
cuneatis subineequalibus, umbellis. paucifloris pedunculatis axillaribus. 
_ Our drawing of this species of Eucalyptus was made 
some months since, from a plant 7 feet high, in the con- 
servatory of the Comtesse de Vandes, at Bayswater. No 
specimens having been preserved at the time, and the 
plant having subsequently perished, we are unable to offer 
any other description of the species than could be obtained 
from our figure. C 
The numerous species of Eucalyptus of -which the 
forests of many parts of New Holland are chiefly composed, 
are almost unknown to the European world. ‘Twenty-four 
only have been enumerated in the most recent botanical 
compilation which has been published, so that the public 
are waiting with impatience for the appearance of the 2d 
volume of Mr. Brown’s Prodromus, from which alone is 
any really valuable account of the genus to be expected. 
In the meanwhile the subject of this article may stand as 
a distinct species, differing from /’. viminalis in the form 0 
its operculum, «in the nature of its inflorescence, and in thé 
greater breadth of its leaves; from E. amygdalina in the 
two latter characters, and from LE. obliqua chiefly in the 
form of its leaves. . resinifera, under which name w& 
are told this plant was purchased by the Comte de Vandes, 
is quite a different thing, with a long rostrate ae 
