16 EUCALYPTUS TREES. 
Honey-Eucalypt may now also be alluded to the Manna-Eucalypt 
Fie. VIL. (Eucalyptus vi- 
minalis); this 
verges more 
towards E. ros- 
trata than to E. 
melliodora, and 
is one of our most 
widely distribu- 
ted but not often 
a gregarious tree. 
The foliage is 
nearly that of the 
Red Gum-tree, 
the fruit is also 
very similar, but 
the flowers stand 
nearly always 
ternately toge- 
ther, and have 
usually shorter 
stalklets; the lid 
of the calyx is 
not long-beaked, 
and the bark at 
the whole is 
somewhat persis- 
tent, while the 
wood is very in- 
ferior in quality 
as timber. 
The Manna- 
Fic. VII.—(Eucalyptus melliodora).—A leaf of a very 
young plant, left unshaded; 1, calyx of two varieties ; 2, Eucalypt ex- 
unexpanded flower, the lid removed ; 3, expanded flower; 4, tends to Tas- 
front- and back-view of fertile stamens ; 5, a sterile stamen ; 
6, fruit seen from above ; 7, longitudinal section of fruit ; 8, 
sterile seeds ; 9, a fertile seed; 1-9, variously magnified ; to Queensland 
the main-figure of natural size. and West Aus- 
mania, but not 
