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REMARKS, 

 has a similai bark and timbei and which charactei I ellei to expi 



the two tr es were not one and the same specii phia " under i Che two differ 



distinctly in foliage and fruits. It has little or no affinity with J I timber, 



and a " Box ' bark and hemispherical fruits. fhis la on herbarium 



material confounded with the " Victorian Vppli '/. Stu ark and 



red -coloured timber of " Vrgyle Vpple ' [E. cinerea) shows conclusively tl 



known to him in the field. \. W. How 



E. Stuartiana, in which the lanceolate form of leaf is less pi 



ilong with Bowers and fruits in the axils. The timbei bark, and inflon cal with the 



type E. Stuartiana. li has littli connection with the lanceolai 



hi New Smith Wales as tl consistent!) thri flo almost 



uniformly seven .1 fact that appi ars to have been ovi rlooked l>v those w 1 1 1 > have synonymised it with I 

 Apple .1 M Dr. Howitt who knew both trees well in the field, and di lem with thi 



iccord with us in oui cla tion ol / . Stuartiana and I.. Bi 



ESSENTIAL OIL. We arc indebted to Dr. A. W. Howitt, F.G.S., for 

 the material of this species for distillation. 



Thr leaves and terminal branchlets had been collected as for commercal 

 distillation, and were sent from Melbourne, Victoria, in April, 1898. The yield 

 ■ it oil was 0-4 per cent. The crude oil was red in colour, and had an odour 

 resembling the cineol-pinene oils generally. Phellandrene could nol be detected 

 but pinene was present. The amount of ester was somewhat large, resembling 

 in this resped the oils obtained from E. cinerea and allied species. I lie oil 

 was rich in cineol, and a determination bv the phosphoric acid method O.M. 

 gave 53 per cent, of that constituent in the crude oil. The specific gravitj 

 of the crude oil = 0-916; and optical rotation a D + 4*8°; refractive index 

 at jo° = 1-4652. The saponification number for the esters and lice acid was 

 14-2. The er.ule oil was soluble in 1] volumes 70 per cent, alcohol. 



49, Eucalyptus Stuartiana, var. cordata. 



(R.T.B. & H.G.S., in Euc. and their Ess. Oils, rst Edit., 1902.) 

 (Svn. E. pulverulentu, var. Ixnceolata, A.W.H.) 



Systematic. A small tree, 411 to 50 feet high, with a red, stringy bark. 

 Leaves glaucous, opposite, sessile, cordate to ovate, or alternate, ovate lam eolate, 

 lanceolate, 3 to 4 inches long, 1 to 2 inches wide, venation well marked, lateral 

 veins oblique, spreading, intramarginal vein well removed from the edge in the 

 ovate leaves. Peduncles axillary, terete, 6 lines long, with from five to eight 

 flowers in the umbel. Calyx conical; operculum hemispherical, acuminate. 



Fruit.— Sessile, top-shaped; rim thick, convex; 

 valves slightlj exserted ; 3 lines in diameti 1 



Habitat. Ovens district, Moe, and man] other localities in 



Vii ini 1.1. 



REMARKS. 1 in tree was Li I I under th ynonym in V.A.A.S., i s 'i^ p. 517, by 



lir. A. W. Howitt, tu whom we an ii lebted for thi herbari material. rhe number of flowers in thi umbel and 



the pn lei nnect it, in our opinion, n tosely with the " Appli E. Stuartiana, 



F.v.M., ol Victoria, than the " Vrgyle Vppli " E. 1 ii., o New South Wales, which lias consistently 



{-flowered peduncles and onl rare! tai iati leavi nta is quite a different ti m ftheabove 



M11111 v L1 ii I '1 1 1"'', iti variet) Mui tl inding I nerea with 1 

 Di II'. win. 



