Tas, 7808, 
EUCALYPTUS GUNNI, 
Var. MONTANA. 
Native of Tasmania and Victoria. 
Nat. Ord. Myrtack#.—Tribe LeprosPpERME. 
Genus Eucatyrtus, L’her. ; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. i. p. 707.) 
Evucatyrtus (Strongylanthera) Gunnit; arbor altitudine varia nunc valde 
elata, glaberrima, trunci cortice fragili inferne ruguloso superne ramo- 
rumque levi, ramis patulis, foliis alternis petiolatis ovatis v. ovato- 
lanceo!atis acuminatis rectis rigidis utrinqne pallide viridibus basi 
acuminatis cuneatisve, nervis glandulisque obscuris, primariis oppositis 
sessilibus rotundatis pruinosis, umbellis axillaribus lateralibusque 
3-pluri-floris subsessilibus v. pedicellatis, calycis tubo ad 3—-} poll. longo 
obovoideo v. turbinato, margine acuto, operculo tubo maulto breviore 
hemispherico vel conico et umbonato, filamentis 3-7 poll. longis alabastro 
inflexis, antheris brevibus oblongis obovatisve rimis elongatis dehiscenti- 
bus, stylo brevi, capsula pyriformi truncata ore paullo constricta tereti 
3-5-loculari margine angusto, valvis brevibus deltoideis leviter immersia, 
seminibus inappendiculatis. 
Var. montana; arbor parva, foliis ad 2 poll. longis, umbellis paucifloris, 
E. Gunnii, Hook. f. in Hook. Lond. Journ. Bot. vol, iii. (1844) p. 499 ; FI. 
Tasman. vol. i. p. 134, t. 27. Benth. Fl. Austral. vol. iii. p. 246. F, 
Muell. Fucalyptogr. Dec. iv.; Key Syst. Vict. Pl.i. 240. E. ligustrina, 
pe in Ned. Kruidk. Arch. vol. iv. (1859) p. 134 (non D.C.). ‘Lab. nostr. 
Var. elata ; arbor elata, foliis longioribus, umbellis plurifloris. EB. Stuartiana, 
F. Muell. ex Mig. lc. vol. iv. (1859) p. 131; Hucalyptogr. Dec. iv. 1. 
persicifolia, Mig. l.c. p..137 (non Ivdd.). HE. Baneriana, Mig. lc. p. 137 
(non Schau.) K. falcifolia, Mig. lc. p. 136 (partim.) E. acervula, Hoo. 
f. Fl. Tasman. vol. i. p. 135 (non Sieh). E. Gannii, F. Muell. Fragment. 
vol. ii. p. 62 (non Hook. f.). 
The species of Hucalyptus are notoriously variable, and 
difficult of discrimination. . Gunnit forms no exception, 
and has given rise to a difference of opinion as to its 
limits of variation between Mr. Bentham and Baron 
Mueller, both able monographers of the genus. The 
species was discovered by myself in 1840, forming a 
forest of small trees in a swampy soil at elevations of 
three thousand to four thousand feet in the centre of 
Tasmania, where it was known to stock-keepers as yielding 
abundantly an agreeable sap; and hence called cider-tree 
or swamp-gum. This Tasmanian mountain form was sub- 
sequently found in the Victorian Alps, on the summit of the 
' DecemBer lst, 1901, 
