Baw-Baw mountains, by Mueller, at an elevation of five 
thousand feet. It is characterized by its small stature, 
leaves about two inches long, and three- to four-flowered, 
shortly peduncled umbels. In 1859 Miquel published an 
allied species, H. Stwartiana, inhabiting low levels, charac- 
terized by its great size, attaining two hundred and 
fifty feet in height, longer leaves, more slender pedun- 
cles, with more numerous flowers in the umbels. It is 
the H. Gunnti of Mneller’s Fragmenta cited above, the 
E. acervula of my “ Flora Tasmanica ” (not of Sieber), and 
has other synonyms. Bentham retains both species, but 
Mueller, being informed by Mr. Abbot, of Tasmania, a 
very competent observer, that H. Gunnii, in descending 
from the mountains to low levels, passes gradually into 
ff. Stuartiana, has united the two, and in so doing has 
greatly added to the geographical range of the species, 
for the Stuartiana form not only ranges over Tasmania, 
but from Lake Bonney and Quichen Bay, in South 
Australia, to Gipp’s Land in Victoria, and to Bathurst 
Plains and Two-fold Bay in New South Wales. 
E. Gunnii is the only species that has withstood the 
climate of the east of England. A small tree of it 
(formerly misnamed L. polyanthemos) stood for many years 
on a mound by the pond opposite the Palm House, in the 
Royal Gardens, Kew, where it was cut almost to the 
ground by severe cold in several winters, but as often sent 
up from the trunk one or more branches from ten feet to 
twenty feet high. A specimen in my garden, near Sun- 
ningdale, at an elevation of about two hundred feet, is 
now thirty feet high. It has suffered severely by frosts, 
but has survived them. In the West of England and of 
Scotland it is quite hardy. As a species it is remarkable 
for the obscure development of oil glands, and faint odour 
of the foliage, which is hence browsed upon in Australia 
by cattle and sheep. Mueller gives several Colonial names 
for it, besides that under which I knew it, as Red gum- 
tree of Tasmania, Gumtop-tree of Sealer’s Cove, and 
But-But, or Apple-scented Gum. The specimen here 
figured is taken from the plant that flowered in the 
Temperate House at Kew. 
Descr.—A rather slender tree, variable in height, from 
twenty feet to thirty feet in the mountains of Tasmania, 
