Myrtacea.] flora of Tasmania. 137 
mania.' It is also a most abundant species, and forms the bulk of the forests of the elevated table-land of the 
interior and flanks of the southern mountains. It is ditlieull so to define its characters that it shall be recognized 
by them, but it is a well-known and readilj distinguished species in the forot. At all periods of growth it has a 
tall, straight trunk, and few terminal branches, never very leafy or umbrageous. In some varieties the young 
branches have a fine glaucous-purple bloom on them, especially in alpine localities; such is the case with Mr. (bum's 
No. 1095, from the banks of Lake St. Clair, where it forms a forest on one side of the bake Ottlj 
sion of all other timber.— Bark flaking off in stringy masses, used formerly by the natives for hm 
Branchhts slender, pendulous. Leaves broader than in most other species of this section. 1-7 inch.. 
at the broad oblique base, then lanceolate and tapering to an acuminate point, surface not polished; nerves diverg- 
ing. Peduncles, Jbwer, and fruit so variable, that it is difficult to characterize them; usually the peduncle, are 
stout, woody, as long as the petioles; the flowers very numerous, and forming a capitate head ; ti, 
calyx turbinate; operculum hemispherical. Capsule woody, gradually or suddenly contracted at the pedicel, sphe- 
rical or oblong, obconic, with a contracted, not thickened, mouth, and sunk valves.— As in the otlu r 
found very great differences in the flowers and fruits from upper and lower, older and younger, slender and stout 
branches.— Plate XXYIII. Fig. 1, fruit, vat. sice ; 2, calyx, magnified. 
13. Eucalyptus radiata (Sieb. PL Exsicc. p. 475) ; arbor mediocris, ramulia graciUbua nepe pen. 
dulis, foliis anguste ellipticis lanceolatisve mediocribus vix nitidis l-ncrviis net is falcatisve, pedunenhs 
subelongatis multifloris, floribus pedicellatis, calyce obconico v. clavato, operculo brevi, eapsula pedicellata. 
Variat insigniter — 
1. foliis lineari-elongatis, fractibua latioribua quam longia Bubturbinatis, ore 
amygdalinar* tendons. {Gaun, 1073, 1077, 1102.) 
2. foliis elongatis lanceolatis, capsulis turbinatis longioribus quam hit is, i r 
1112.) 
3. foliis ovato-lanceolatis elliptico-lanceolatisve, capsulis majusculis turbinatis.— Arbor data, ad /,. 
m tetidens. 
4. foliis majoribus lanceolatis nitidis, capsulis ut in forma 3.— Arbor mediocris, ad £ "~' 
tendens. {Girnn, 1100, 1110.) 
5. foliis angustis elongatis, capsulis parvis obconicis.— Arbor elata, ad E. vUvhua tendon: 
Hab. Very abundant in the southern parts of the Colony: 1, 2, and 1, Hobarton, etc. 
Denvent at Cluny, Mount Wellington, elev. 2500 feet, Lake Echo, elcv. 8000 feet : 5, Port At 
the sea.— (Fl. Oct.-Dec.) (v. v.) 
Disteib. South-eastern Australia. 
rietiesof amygdalhia. The forms 1 have enumerated are pr<'i>a 
Eucalyptus nitida (Hook, fil.) ; arbor 
. 
s contracto \ 
ergentibus, pedaiu », floribus 
rce breviter clavato v. obconico, operculo brevi lato, capsulis sessilibus parvis sub- 
ubdilatato, marginibus crassis planis angustisve. (Tab. XXIX.) {Gunn, 808.) 
