'548 ON EUCALYPTUS PULVERULENTA, SIMS, 



Indeed it was with some reluctance that E. inilverulenta became at all 

 accepted in the present work, from which all dubious species for distinct 

 illustration have been and are to be rigorously excluded. As, however, E. 

 piilverulenta is the only species with opposite leaves, indigenous to the colony 

 of Victoria, it was deemed desirable to accord full elucidation to it. This 

 finally narrow-leaved form of E. lyulverulenta, when yet in its young bushy 

 state, has the leaves all broad and opposite; but they do not continue in that 

 form, contrarily to what is noted elsewhere. Mr. Falck observed that the 

 bark of this Eucalypt is pervaded by a peculiar somewhat terebinthine odor, 

 so much so as to have given rise to the local name •' Turpentine-tree " for 

 this species. 



In this passage Mueller refers to a lanceolar-leaved form of E. 

 pulverulenta which will be referred to in detail presently. He 

 himself inclined to the belief that it was a form of E . indveridenta^ 

 and yet by a train of reasoning that I am unable to follow, he 

 seems to throw doubt on the validity of E. pulverulenta, Sims, as 

 a, species. There is no doubt, however, that it is a good species, 

 and its recognition dates from the year 1819. 



I am of the opinion that the lanceolar-leaved trees in question 

 are a form of E. pulverulenta. 



Mr. A. W. Howitt brought the matter of the variation of E. 

 pulverulenta prominently under notice in a paper on " The 

 Occurrence of Eucalyptus pulveridenta in Victoria,""^ in which he 

 olearly proves that that species is not different from one of the 

 trees which passes under the name of E. Stuartiana in Victoria. 



I have studied E. pulveridenta in the field from Melbourne in 

 the south to Tenterfield on the New South Wales-Queensland 

 border, and have come to the conclusion that it is more variable 

 than has been hitherto understood, and that the '' Apple " or 

 "Peppermint" (not the "But But") of Victoria and the Black 

 Peppermint of New England are conspecific with the Argyle 

 Apple. This will require the description of E. pidverulenta, Sims 

 ■(brief and imperfect like all the early descriptions of Eucalypts) 

 to be amended in the direction indicated by Deane and Maiden 

 under E. nova-anglica, namely, that the mature leaves may be 



* Seventh Report Aust. Assoc. Adv. Science. Sydney Meeting, 1898. 



