DICHOTOMOUS KEY TO THE EUCALYPTUS. 5 



No. No. 



32. Flowers white, rarely pink ; seeds very large, black, 



not winged, E. calophylla. 

 Flowers red ; seeds brown, winged, E. ficifolia. 



33. Fruit truncate^globular, sessile, E. Howittiana. 



Fruit truncate-ovate, pedicellate 34 



34. Operculum depressed-hemispherical, E. Cloeziana. 

 Operculum more or less conical, E. paniculata. 



(The variety fasciculosa from the dry north-west of Victoria 

 differs in having the leaves of equal colour on both sides 

 and the bark of the trunk smooth.) 



35. Fruit two-celled, E. phoenicea. 



Fruit with three or more cells 36 



36. Fruit nearly 2 inches long, E. miniata. 



Fruit not exceeding 1 inch ... ... ... ... 37 



37. Operculum projecting beyond the rim of the calyx ... 38 

 Operculum not broader than the calyx 39 



38. Leaves somewhat paler beneath, E. corynocalyx. 

 Leaves of equal colour on both sides, E. urnigera. 



39. Leaves opposite... ... ... ... ... ... 40 



Leaves scattered ... ... ... ... ... 41 



40. Leaves orbicular, E. Kruseana. 

 Leaves lanceolate, E. doratoxylon. 



41. Leaves with several longitudinal veins almost parallel 



with the midrib ... ... ... ... ... 42 



Leaves with the veins all more or less diverging from 



the midrib ... ... ... ... ... ... 43 



42. Operculum conical, leaves rather small, E. stellulata. 

 Operculum hemispherical, leaves large, E. coriacea 



(= E. pauciflora). 



43. Leaves much paler beneath, E. diver sicolor. 



(Occasionally cultivated under the name of E. colossea. E. 

 marginata has the valves sometimes enclosed, and is then 

 distinguished from E. diversicolor by the conical 

 operculum. ) 



Leaves of equal colour on both sides or nearly so ... 44 



44. Pedicels elongated ... ... ... ... ... 45 



Pedicels short or none ,.. ... ... ... ... 47 



45. Operculum hemispherical, E. sepulcralis. 



Operculum conical ... ... ... ... ... 46 



46. Leaf-veins very spreading, E. longifolia. 

 Leaf-veins very oblique E. leucoxylon 



47. Fertile seeds membranously winged, E. Todtiana. 



Fertile seeds not winged ... ... ... ... 48 



