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for fome time been ignorant, was firft publifhed in the 
Hortus Kewen/fis, vol.2. 157. The original f{pecies there 
mentioned is named ob/igua, anda figure of it is given in 
M. L’Heritier’s Sertum Anglicum, tab. 20; but the de- 
{cription has not yet appeared. Having lately received 
fpecimens from New South Wales of five more very 
diftinét fpecies, we fhall now attempt to characterize 
them, firft defcribing more fully that exhibited in our 
plate. 
Eucalyptus robufia is one of the largeft and loftiett of 
trees, frequently too feet in height ; its wood hard, heavy 
and ftrong, of a reddith colour, and abounding with refin. 
Branches round below, covered with {mooth 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. 
Stipule none. Umbels on flower-ftalks, frequently from 
the axillze of the leaves, and folitary, fometimes two or 
more together, forming a fort of alternate racemus, and 
fometimes fuch race terminate the branches. Sracfee 
none. General flower-fla/k 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 fhorter, fingle-flowered, dilated into the bafe of 
the calyx. Flowers yellowifh, occafionally with a red 
tinge. Calyx obconical, fometimes round, often two- or 
even four-edged, entire; 4d rather more than equal to 
it in length, {welling above the bafe, then fuddenly con- 
