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39 EUCALYPTUS robusta.

Brown Gum Tree, or New Holland Mahogany.

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Cal superior, permanent, truncated, covered before flowering with an entire lid, soon falling off. Cor. none. Caps. of 4 cells, opening at the top, containing many seeds.

Lid conical, contracted in the middle. Umbels lateral and terminal; general and partial flower-stalks compressed.

THE genus of Eucalyptus, established by the celebrated French botanist M. L'Heritier, of whose fate amid the present dreadful convulsions of his country we have