EUCALYPTUS GUNNII. 



J. Hooker, in the London Journal of Botany iii. 499 (1844) ; flora Tasmanica i. 134, t. 27 ; F. v. M., fragnienta 

 pliytographia; Australia; ii. 62 ; Bentham, flora Australieusis iii. 246 ; E. acervula, J. Hooker, flora Tasmanica 

 i. 135. 



The Swamp- Gum-tree or Cider-Eucalypt. 



Leaves scattered, oval- or oblong- or eloiigate-lanceolar or almost oval, acute at the base and 

 apex, not very inequilateral, rigid, shining and of equal aud saturated green on both sides, their 

 oil-dots concealed or hardly developed, their lateral veins slightly prominent, somewhat distant 

 and moderately spreading, the circumferential vein distinctly removed from the edge of the leaf ; 

 umbels solitary, axillary aud lateral, 3-10-flowered ; stalklets usually short or even hardly any, 

 seldom much elongated ; tube of the calyx obcouical-semiovate or faintly bellshaped, from slightly 

 to doubly exceeding the length of the mostly hemispheric and short-pointed lid ; stamens all 

 fertile, inflected before expansion ; anthers almost oval, bursting by longitudinal parallel slits ; 

 style short ; stigma depressed ; Jrttits tu^skajjcd-scniiocate, seldom slightly bellshaped, not angular, 

 3-4- or rarely 5-celled ; rim rather narrow ; valves very short, deltoid, fixed close to the orifice, 

 almost enclosed ; seeds all without appendages. 



From the vicinity of Guichen-13ay aud Lake Bouncy eastward to Gippsland, on alluvial flats 

 particularly in swampy places, but also on the sides of moist forest-hills and silvan mountains, 

 ascending in a dwarf state our alpine regions up to 5,.jOO feet height, extending at least as far as 

 Berrima into New South Wales (Woolls), frequent in Tasmania. 



A tree, rising under most favorable circumstances to a height of 2oO feet, but usually not tall, 

 often of crooked growth, sometimes also dwarfed and exceptionally even somewhat procumbent on 

 coast-ridges, passing not (infrequently as a White Gum-tree, also occasionally under the designation 

 Yellow Gum-tree. Bark constantly under the process of separation (Howitt), rough and dark- or 

 greyish-brown at the butt or also on a portion of the stem or even sometimes up to some of the 

 main limbs, or in many cases smooth on the stem as well as on the branches, then greyish or 

 verging into a yellowish or brownish coloration. Hence the tree fluctuates in its cortical charac- 

 teristics between Leiophloiio and Ilcmiphloiie. Wood hard, very good for many purposes of 

 artisans, if straight stems are obtainable, as a rule not splitting well, but fair for fuel. Branches 

 very spreading. Mass of the foliage more dark, dense and shady than in many other Eucalypts. 

 Leaves shorter and comparatively broader and also stift'er in the alpine state of the species, often 

 somewhat undulated in the large lowland-form, occasionally and more particularly towards the 

 margin assuming a reddish tinge. Stalks usually shorter than the umbels, more or less angular, 

 but not dilated, sometimes almost obliterated, bearing in the alpine variety occasionally merely 

 two or one flower, only in abnormal rare instances a few umbels crowded into panicles. Lid 

 occasionally very depressed aud almost blunt, in other exceptional cases upwards nearly conical. 

 The calyces and young branches of plants of the coldest regions not rarely covered with a whitish 

 bloom. Leaves of young seedlings opposite, roundish, powdery-whitish or in the tall variety not 

 pruiuous. Iii the Alps this species flowers already at a height of several feet, forming there, 

 associated with dwarfed E. pauciflora, mainly the miniature-forests ; a shrubby state producing 

 flowers may now and then also be met on coast-borders. The foliage has not decidedly the 

 penetrating strong Cajuput-odor of most congeners ; hence cattle and sheep readily browse on it, 

 a circumstance very unusual among Eucalypts, though noticed also in the case of E. coryno- 

 calyx. 



