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E. Stuartiana, I should have considered them one and the same 

 species, although there is a slight difference in the fruits of each; 

 Mueller's species having exserted valves, and also a thicker rim. 



It differs from E. saligna, Sm., in the venation and 

 texture of its leaves, also in the shape of its fruits and con- 

 stituents of its oil, but has some resemblance to it in the colour 

 of its wood and nature of bark and its natural habitat, and these 

 three characters also connect it with E. punctata, DC, the 

 species under which it was placed by Baron von Mueller. It is, 

 however, well removed from that species by the shape of the fruits, 

 young leaves and its coriaceous mature leaves, which are almost 

 devoid of oil-glands, — the oil obtained being therefore much less 

 in quantity than that of E. jnuictata, and the quality of the oil is 

 also much below that of " Grey Gum," which has been shown 

 {loc. cit.) to surpass in quality and quantity the world-renowned 

 E. globulus, Labill. "Grey Gum" timber is also more highly 

 valued than that of " Yellow Gum." 



It differs from E. Gunnii of Hooker, f., in Fl. Tas. i. 134, t. 27, 

 in its larger, shining, acuminate young leaves; in its prominent 

 venation, and coriaceous leaves; in its turbinate or conical sessile 

 fruits, with slightly exserted valves, in the absence of a glaucous- 

 ness on the fruits, branches, leaves and twigs, cider exudation, 

 quality of timber, and constituents of its oil. 



The leaves of E. Gunnii are eaten by stock and, therefore, 

 classed as a fodder (Mueller, Eucalyptographia, Dec. 4), but the 

 leaves of this species could not be put in this category as the 

 volatile oil is too pronounced, as also are the tans. Some 

 experiments were undertaken, but cattle could not be tempted to 

 eat the leaves, preferring even bark and bones. 



The "Yellow Gum" referred to by Baron von Mueller (^oc. cit.) 

 is without doubt this species. I have examined complete material 

 of E. Gunnii, Hook, f., and " Yellow Gum " from the same 

 locality (Bombala), and except that the young leaves of the latter 

 are petiolate, it agrees in every other respect with the " Yellow 

 Gum " of the Wingecarribee of Woolls and my specimens from 

 Barber's Creek, and so is quite distinct from Hooker's E. Gunnii, 

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