210 XLVIII. MYRTACEA. [Eucalyptus 
i. 60. A middle-sized or tall tree, with a persistent rough dark iron-grey 
ueller), dark grey and spongy on the trunk, soft and white on the 
oblique and irregular, sometimes scarcely conspicuous, the intramarginal one 
more prominent, not far from the edge, except when the leaf is broad. 
Peduncles axillary, terete or slightly flattened, with 3 or sometimes mor ` 
rather large flowers, on pedicels often as long as or longer than the calyx-tube. 
Buds ovoid, acuminate. Calyx-tube turbinate, usually about 3 lines long - 
and as much in diameter, but sometimes long Operculum conical or 
acuminate, about as long as the calyx-tube. cp usually very unequal, — 
red or white, the outer ones often 2 in. long or more, and usually anantherous, 
the inner much shorter; anthers “very small, truncate, with contiguous Ce 
opening in terminal pores or short oblong slits, sometimes at length con- 
fluent. Ovary flat-topped. Fruit obovoid or subglobular, truncate, not con- 
tracted at the orifice, 3 or sometimes 4 lines diameter, the Eu t ger flat, or 
slightly convex, the capsule slightly depressed.— Mig. in n Ned. K 
iv. 126; E. sideroxylo on, A. Cunn. in Mitch. Trop. Austr. 339 m only). 
Wale George's River, Ca/ey.—Com ** Tron-bark ” of Hei usd Fraser, ` 
A. Cu am ; red “Iron-bark” of Liverpool, E Paranata and M roe 
" ng ark " of New iiiad, C. Stuart; “ Iron-b or “ Black Mo DË Ash" ; 
Twofold ur Oldfield. 
voca river, F. Mueller; Murray river, Dal/ach 
S. Ass iratis From the Murray to St. Vincent's Gulf, F. ‘Mueller, and others. 
Var. pa. Flowers large, the calyx distinctly angled.— Devil's Country, 8. Amm 
ad Woolls ; e several of the S. Australian specimens, “ White Gum,” Beir ` 
is variety seem ms almost to pass into E. melliodora. 
18. E. melliodora, A. Cunn. Herb.; Schau. in Walp. Rep. ii 
i. 924. 
A Eau an tree of. éi eg growth, with a smooth bark of a pale lead E 
colour (4. Cunningham), scaling off in flakes in the upper p art of the tee - 4 
(C. Moore), furrowed and SN (PF. Mueller). Leaves lanceolate, usually 1 
narrow, acum and often falcate, mostly 3 to 4 in. long, ra rather thick 1 
with very fine ‘and rather numerous but oblique veins, the intramargin ngulst 3 
at a prape from. the edge. Peduncles axillary or lateral, somewhat an 
flowers on pedicels of 1 to 2 lines. Kee? -tube campanulate, about 2 
long and diameter. Operculum hemispherical or shortly conical, with e 
small pr varying from a little shorter to rather longer than the 
Stamens about 2 lines long, the outer ones rather longer and ananth 
somew mtract ; the rim rather broad, flat or nearly 80; - 
more or Kis: depressed, but "the valves sometimes prominent when ope 
E. patentiflora, Miq. in Ned. Kruidk. Arch. iv. 12 
N.S. Wales. A frequent gum about Bathurst e to the north and = ^ i 
ZE e EE A LEUN fons Yate E 
A 
but not thick, usually short, each with an umbel of 4 tó 8 rather „e 3 
