. A critical revision of the genus Eucalyptus. Eucalyptus. ' DESCRIPTION. CXLV. E. vernieosa Hook. f. In London Journal of Botany vi, 478 (1847). Eamis validis, ramulis acute angulatis foliis alternis parvis uniformibus breviter petiolatis crasse coriaceis late elliptico-oblongis utrinque obtusis mucronulatis nitidis vernicosis, pedunculis brevissimis 1-3-floris, alabastris sessilibus late obconicis, operculis cupulam subaequantibus conico-hemisphericis subrostellatis, capsulis hemisphericis ore non contracto piano v. depresso. Hill).—Mount Fatigue, altitude 4,000 feet. Gunn. Arbor parva, 4
. A critical revision of the genus Eucalyptus. Eucalyptus. ' DESCRIPTION. CXLV. E. vernieosa Hook. f. In London Journal of Botany vi, 478 (1847). Eamis validis, ramulis acute angulatis foliis alternis parvis uniformibus breviter petiolatis crasse coriaceis late elliptico-oblongis utrinque obtusis mucronulatis nitidis vernicosis, pedunculis brevissimis 1-3-floris, alabastris sessilibus late obconicis, operculis cupulam subaequantibus conico-hemisphericis subrostellatis, capsulis hemisphericis ore non contracto piano v. depresso. Hill).—Mount Fatigue, altitude 4,000 feet. Gunn. Arbor parva, 4-pedalis, in convallibus 15-pedalis. Eami crecti, robusti, rugulosi, cicatricati; ramulis plerumque tetragonis, angulis acutis. Folia breviter petiolata, petiolo \ unc. longo, lamina uncialis, f-f unc. lata, valde rigida, coriacea, apice rotundata apiculata, sicca flavido-virescentia nitida, obscure nervosa. Pedunculi brevissimi, crassi, vix \ unc. longi v. sub-nulli. Alabastra \ unc. longa, sicca rugosa. Capsula \ unc. longa, ad orem aequilata obconico-hemispherica. In Fl. Tan. i, 135 (1860), Hooker re-described his species in the following words :— Arbuscula glaberrima verrucosa nitida, ramis ramulisque erectis robustis, foliis parvis erectis breve petiolatis exacte oblongis ellipticis rotundatisve apiculatis crassissime coriaceis, pedunculis cragsis brevissimis 1-3-floris, calyce late obconico v. oblongo operculum conico-hemisphsericum subrostellatum aequante, capsula hemisphserica ore non contracto piano v. depresso. (Gunn, 1113.) Hab.—Summit of Mount Fatigue, elev. 4,000 feet, Milligan, Gunn (Fl. April). A very peculiar and most distinct form, perhaps the smallest of the whole genus, quite unlike any other Tasmanian one, though, all the specimens being from but one locality, some allowance must be made for deviations from the description. Gunn describes it as forming a bush 1-4 feet high, though he suspects that some trees of 15 feet, which he saw in rocky, sheltered
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