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axils, and one or three together; the fruit is cylindric to 

 turbinate, generally ribbed, about seven millimetres »n 

 diameter. 



The peculiar Box-like foliage comes true to seed whei» 

 grown at a low elevation. At Mt. La Perouse some 

 trees grew to twenty feet, still retaining the characteristic 

 foliage. 



I'm Gum {Euc. urniyeni, Hooher). — A tree varying 

 greatlv in stature, according to edaphic conditions, and, 

 like MueJIer'x Gum, mostly confined in Tasmania to an 

 altitude between two and three thousand feet, though «n 

 England it does well at sea level. The bark, like that of 

 Mueller's: Gvin, is smooth, and usually blotched with red 

 or brown ; the foliage, both juvenile and mature, is similar 

 to the foliage of that species, but the flowers are vcr}' 

 different. They are three in the umbel on a long common 

 stalk, and each flower ia cylindric and fairly long stalked ; 

 the operculum is very short, nearly flat, with a central pro- 

 tuberance. Tlie fruit is shaped like an urn, being con- 

 stricted just below the oi-ifice, ranging about rather more 

 than a centimetre in length, the valves are very deeply 

 sunk. A form of this tree grown at Whittinghame, Scot- 

 land, said to have been raised from seed gathered on Mt 

 Wellington, has the characteristic capsules, but verv much 

 smaller, and the leaves are long and narrow. Other trees 

 growing in England exactly conform to the type. 



One specimen from Alma Tiers has the flowers upon 

 a shoot while still in juvenile foliage. 



The juvenile foliage of f'rn Giiin is more glaucous 

 than that of Mueller'ii Gum, but otherwise similar. 



Henri -leaved Gum. (Euc. rardata. Hooker). — Usually 

 a small tree, hut at Uxbridge, in forests, it attains a 

 height of two hundred feet. The foliage is ashy-blue. 

 Leaves opposite, sessile, very broadly ovate to orbicular, 

 not joining across the stem ; this juvenile condition, which 

 is verv like the foliage of Tr// and Mueller x Gums, is 

 maintained throughout the life of the tree. The flowers 

 are three together on short stalks, close in the angles of 

 the leaves; tube is broad, operculum almost- flat. The 

 fruit is nearly spherical, and about one centimetre dia- 

 meter to rather more ; the rim is rather broad, and the 

 valves deeply sunk. 



Ovnfe Gum (Euc. nvntn. Lab.). — Generally a small 

 tree. Bark scaly at the base, smooth above. Leaves 

 equal-sided, oblong or ovate, polished and often undulate, 

 sometimes narrower ; juvenile foliage opposite, sessile, 



