THE EUCALYPTS OF GIPPSLAND. 101 



111 only one instance have I found it growing in the mountains, viz., at 

 Glen Fallooli, where it occupies a basin of soft shale of Upper Devonian age, from 

 700ft. up to 1500ft. above sea level. The soil of this basin, which is derived from 

 the soft shales, resembles that of the lower districts where E. tereticornis thrives 

 best. 



The slight distinctions which separate it from E. rostrata are constant throughout 

 Gippsland, although the terete form of the lid varies ; some forms being much more 

 attenuated than others. Yet in all the characteristic arrangement of the anthers is 

 constant. 



E. guiinii. — This type is very widely spread over Gippsland, not only in horizontal 

 range, but also in elevation above the sea level. I have observed a lowland and a 

 highland form, and each of them has a dwarf variety. 



Lowland form (a).— This form has been fully dealt with by Baron von Mueller, 

 and I have only to add that it occurs throughout the littoral country. In the damp 

 climate of West and South-Western Gippsland it grows to a considerable height, say 

 150ft., with a straight clear bole, and was there cut by saw-millers, in one instance 

 at any rate, as "blue-gum." In Central and Eastern Gippsland it does not grow to 

 so great a height, but maintains its other characteristics. 



(6).— This dwarf variety grows in poor, boggy country in the low-lying tracts, but 

 also occurs in the drier hills at Foster. It usually does not grow higher than 4ft. to 

 5ft., but at Foster it is found from 18ft. to 20ft. in height. The bark is smooth in 

 texture and ashy grey in colour, which becomes lighter in the upper branches. 

 Generally, when in its dwarf form it has a large butt level with the ground of several 

 feet in diameter, from which rise numerous shoots. 



In the dwarf form the leaves (excepting in the upper shoots) are somewhat 

 broadly ovate, and are opposed and sessile. The texture is thick and leathery, of a 

 dull, rather dark green colour. In the taller examples the leaves become scattered, 

 ovate lanceolar, somewhat attenuated at the stalk, and accumiuate. They are 

 equilateral, slightly shining, and of a rather brighter tint than the sessile leaves, and 

 have the marginal vein distinctly removed, the lateral veins numerous and rather 

 spreading. Very often the terminal leaves are opposed. 



This Eucalypt flowers and fruits when in a completely dwarf state. The umbels 

 are mostly axilliary, and of a bright yellow to orange colour, as are also the stalks and 

 young shoots. The stalklet is angular and wrinkled, sometimes rounded, about 

 twice as long as the sessile buds, which are o to 7, and much crowded together. The 

 fruit sessile in clusters of 3 to 7, semi-ovate, margin slightly compressed, valves small, 

 not exserted, stalk slightly flattened. 



