EUCALYPTUS PULVERULENTA—VICTORIA., 519 
The venation of the young leaves is not always distinct. The 
mid-rib is usually well marked, and in some localities compara- 
tively wide at its base. The stem, leaf-stalk, mid-rib, and leaf- 
edge in some cases are dark red in colour. 
On the leaves of strong saplings the venation is often well marked. 
The lateral veins diverge at angles between 40° and 50°, and are 
somewhat apart. The marginal vein not always distinguishable, 
and placed irregularly distant from the edge. 
In the leading shoots of strong saplings, the leaves are 
lengthened so as to become lanceolar, or somewhat sickle-shaped, 
or faleate. On aged trees the whole of the leaves, excepting, 
perhaps, those on the lower drooping boughs, are usually long- 
lanceolar, and opposed ; but in places, especially high up, show a 
tendency to be alternate or scattered. Almost always a shoot is 
terminated by a pair of opposed leaves. 
In the north-eastern district the leaves appear to be thinner in 
texture than those of trees in Gippsland, which are sometimes thick 
and leathery. In such cases the venation is somewhat hidden, but 
dots are plentiful. 
The flowers are mostly axillary, and are to be found even on 
saplings, not more than 5 feet in height. The peduncle is rounded, 
though I have occasionally observed a trace of flattening, and 
it is from three-eighths to one-half of an inch long. Buds are 
about as long as, and the lid may be one-third to one-half, of the 
length of the calyx-tube. Form of bud, truncate conoid ; lid some- 
what mammilate; filaments yellow; anthers all fertile, almost oval, 
opening by long parallel slits ; style rather short, and scarcely 
dilated. The number of flowers in a head from three to six, rarely 
two. The trees flower in Gippsland about October, and April. 
The fruits are sessile, or almost so, and vary somewhat in size 
and shape. Of a number which I have examined from the different 
places mentioned some were top-shaped, being about equal in height 
and in breadth at the rim; less frequently semiovate top-shaped. 
Rim somewhat marked, occasionally almost flat, but vertex some- 
times convex, and occasionally strongly so. The valves are not 
large, are deltoid, exerted slightly and bent a little inwards, 
In a number of fruits collected in Gippsland I found those 
having three, four, and five valves in the ratios of 5, 9, 1. 
The timber of the Victorian variety is somewhat dark coloured, 
liable to be pipy and of no economic value unless for fuel in 
default of better. 
The most westerly locality where I found this tree is Moe, in 
Gippsland, 80 miles from Melbourne. From Moe to Bunyip River, 
a distance of 32 miles, there extends the great forest of Western 
