BY R. T. BAKER. 165 



or acuminate. Stameas inflected in the bud, roof of ovary flat or 

 curved. Anthers oblong, parallel, opening with longitudinal slits, 

 connective small. 



Fruits hemispherical, rarely conical, 3 to 4 lines in diameter, on 

 a short pedicel, sessile when conical, rim mostly thickened with a 

 ring below the edge; a specimen from Araluen has quite a flange. 

 Valves exserted. 



//a6.— Victoria : Gippsland ("But But," "Apple-tree," 

 " Apple-tree Box," " White Box," J. W. Howltt, F.G.S.). N.S. 

 Wales : Colombo (" Apple-top Box," W. Bduerlen) ; Albury 

 ("Apple," Dr. Andrews); Gerogery ("Woolly-butt," J. Mmnix); 

 Rylstone ("Woolly-butt," R.T.B.); Bathurst i "Bastard Box," W. 

 Woolls). 



If this species were classified on its bark and timber alone, it 

 would be placed between the ordinary " Box," E. hemiphloia, 

 F.V.M., and "White Box," K. albens, but these belong to the 

 Porantherse division of Eucalypts, whilst the anthers of this 

 Species are parallel and open by longitudinal slits, and it there- 

 fore comes in the Parallelantherte series. 



The hemispherical-shaped fruits connect it with E. viminalis, 

 LabilL; in fact it is impossible to determine the two species from 

 fruits alone, and in one instance the young leaves of each species 

 very similar. It difiers, however, from this latter species in its 

 timber, and particularly in its bark (not that much reliance can 

 be placed in cortical features in working out specific distinctions), 

 but in this case we have the only instance recorded of a Euca- 

 lyptus bark yielding an oil ! This in itself is, I think, sufficient 

 to establish its specific rank. The oil from the leaves is quite 

 distinct in quality and quantity from E. viminalis oil. 



I should not be surprised if the " Woolly-butt" recorded under 

 E. vi?ninalis, B.Fl. iii. p. 240, were also this species. 



Unfortunately I have not been able to obtain timber and bark 

 of E. alba, Reinw., but from published descriptions of that species 

 I feel disposed to think that these two parts of the respective 

 trees much resemble each other. The leaves of both are distinct. 



