EUCALYPTUS 533 



oval, abruptly pointed, becoming in the adult or flowering state, thick, grey- 

 green, alternate, narrowly oblong or lance-shaped ; 2 to 4 ins. long, to | ins. 

 wide ; with slender stalks up to* I in. long. Flowers in axillary umbels of about 

 seven, produced on a common stalk ^ in. long, but scarcely stalked in- 

 dividually ; stamens yellow, very numerous, forming a cluster f in. across ; 

 calyx-tube slenderly tapered like a funnel to the base. 



Confined in a wild state to the mountain-tops of Tasmania ; hardy only in 

 the milder parts of the kingdom. One of the most notable specimens in the 

 country is at Powderham, in Devon. It differs from E. cordata, E. Gunnii, and 

 E. urnigera in the more numerous flowers in a cluster. At Powderham it has 

 flowered both at midwinter and midsummer. 



E. CORDATA, Labillardiere. 



An evergreen tree with warted, slender young shoots. Leaves opposite, 

 stalkless, vividly blue-white, warted ; heart-shaped, with the basal lobes of each 

 leaf overlapping those of the opposite one ; i^ to 3^ ins. long, i to 2^ ins. wide ; 

 short-pointed or rounded at the apex. Flowers produced in November and 

 December, usually three in a cluster at each leaf-axil ; the bush-like cluster of 

 yellow stamens | to i in. across ; calyx-tube vase-shaped, J to \ in. deep. 

 Fruit roundish cup-shaped. 



Native of Tasmania. It is not very hardy, and can only be expected to 

 thrive permanently in Cornwall and such-like places. Near London it has 

 lived long enough to flower in the open, but this is owing to its reaching the 

 flowering state very early. Its leaves do not change in colour or shape on its 

 reaching the flowering stage, a character that well distinguishes it from all the 

 other eucalypts here mentioned. A tree at Menabilly, Cornwall, in 1909, was 

 50 ft. high and 2 ft. 5 ins. in girth. In a small state it is used in summer 

 bedding for the sake of its brilliantly glaucous foliage. 



E. GUNNII, Hooker fit. CIDER-TREE. 



(E. whittingehamensis, Hort.} 



An evergreen tree, 60 to 80 ft. high in this country, some of its forms 

 attaining larger dimensions in Australia and Tasmania ; free from down in 

 all its parts. Leaves of juvenile plants nearly or quite opposite, orbicular, 

 | to i\ ins. wide, rounded or notched at the top, heart-shaped or rounded at 

 the base, sometimes stalkless, sometimes with a stalk \ to | in. long, glaucous. 

 As the adult state is reached the leaves become elongated, alternate, and 

 longer-stalked, until at the flowering state they are 2^ to 4 ins. long, about 

 % in. wide ; pointed, and tapered at the base to a stalk up to i in. long. 

 At tfiis stage the leaves are all pendent. Flowers produced in October 

 and later from the leaf-axils, usually in twos or threes, the main-stalk \ in. 

 long ; the individual flower about % in. across, the chief feature being an 

 enormous number of pale yellow spreading stamens ; the calyx-tube gradually 

 tapered like a funnel to a very short stalk. (Fig. p. 534.) 



Native of Tasmania and S. Australia, where a remarkable variety of forms 

 are said to occur. The above description is made from a specimen .40 ft. high 

 growing near the Pagoda at Kew, which was planted there in 1896, and appears 

 to be quite hardy the only one of which so much can be said. One of the most 

 notable trees in Great Britain is in Mr A. J. Balfour's grounds at Whittinge- 

 hame, which yields good seed and is the parent of the tree at Kew. It is 

 considered by Prof. Henry to differ from typical E. Gunnii in being less 

 glaucous, in having proportionately narrower leaves, and a more tapered 

 calyx-tube. 



