et ee 
WESSEN ST OMS op. 
212 XLVIII. MYRTACER. [ Eucalyptus. — 
ar. fasciculosa. pese Paro smaller, operculum usually short KE. fasciculosa, F. 
Muell in veer: Vict. Ins 
ia Lofty, Buale, and other ranges along St. Vincent’s Gulf, E. Mueller; 
Banks of the Three-Well river, Waterhouse ; * z /hite Gum," Behr. 
Var. angustifolia. Leaves narrow and thin, as in some varieties of Æ. crebra. Um 
loose, paniculate. Opere — nical. Quis cin anantherous.—N. S. Wales, ** Narrow- 
leaved Iron-bark," Wool/s 
Var? meets Flowers still smaller, like those of E. gracilis, Leaves rather short and 
. Austr a, Drumionid, (3rd Coll. ?) Suppl. n 
: The species is E diuo E. g racilis, with which F Medi (Fragm. ii. 67) proposes to 
unite his Æ. fasciculosa, but both the folinge and the flowers appear to me to së e 
When large, the flowers almost assume the aspect of the smaller forms of £. co 
21. E. heemastoma, Sm. in Trans. Linn. Soc. iii. 985. A large timber 
tree, with a smooth deciduous bark, leaving a spotted or variegated trunk 
CF. Mueller) or the bark sometimes smooth and sometimes half- “barked, like 
tapering into a rather long, thick or rather slender pedicel. Operculum very 
short, hemispherical, obtuse. Stamens 2 to 3 lines long, inflected, the outer 
ones long ger an anantherous ; anthers. of the ve? ones small, the 
protruding when open but very ee falling away —DC. Prod. iii. ao 
x Muell. Fragm. ii. 51; E signata, F. Muell. in Journ. Linn. Soc. iii. t 
ROMPE 22 and 23, from N. A Wales, Miq. in Ned. Kruidk. Arch. ir 1 
Qr UA Wide Bay, C. Moore; Brisbane river, Moreton Bay, "' Spotted Gum,” 
F. Mueller. 
N. S. Wales. Port Jackson, “Blue or White .Gum," Woolls ; Illawarra, “ Black- - 
batt,” 4. Cunningham ; in the interior, “ Mountain Ash ” and * Spotted Gu m," Macarthur. 3 
Var. micrantha. Leaves often 6 to 8 in. lon ng or even more, the veins less conspicuous : 
Flowers and fruit much Ge but not se om different.—E. micrantha, D.C C. Prod. i 3 
217, and Mem. Myrt. t. ; Port Jackson, R. Br rown, Sieber, n. 497; Paramatta, Wools. 
somewhat angular, compressed, to 1 in. long, each with about 4 wes 
uds clavate, short but tapering into thick pedicels of 2 to 3 
h d, a 
umbonate. - Stamens inflected in the bud, the outer ones about 3 lines long, 
anantherous or with small abortive anthers, the inner ones much shorter 
