



4. E. hcemastoma, Miq. 



16. Eucalyptus fuemastoma, Smith, Act. Soc. Linn. Lond. iii. 285; DC. Prodr. I.e. 219, n. 23. — E. 

 largiflorens, Ferd. Miill. Herb. 



Locis humidis ad fl. Murray, £1. sestate (F.M.). Van Diemensland (Stuart). 



Umbellfe sub-5-flor8e, nunc superne paniculato-confertie. Operculum duplex ; exterius depres.sum 

 obsolete apiculatum, interius membranaceum convexum muticum ; calycis tubus (p. 131) obconicns apice 

 ampliatus hoc paulum, illo duplo amplior, ambobus niulto longior (ex Miill. adnot.). Nederl. Kruidk Arch. 

 iv. 130 (1856). 



This is E. bicolor, A. Cunn., "as to tlie Miu'ray specimens" (B.Fl. iii. 215). 

 Tlie Tasmanian (Van Dieman's Land) specimens were prolmbly E. amyydalina. 



(«) Note on E. parviflora, F.v.M. 



This is a name only given as a synonym of E. bicolor, A. Cunn. (in Journ. 

 Linn. Soc. iii. 90) and it is referred to here in order that it may be cleared up. It 

 is the same as E. hibolor, A. Cunn., var. parviflora, F.v.M. (B.Fl. iii, 215) and is 

 E. populifoUa, Hook., as noted by Mueller himself in llei'b. Melb. It is, doubtless, 

 the same as '' Tax. i^aroiflora, Benth," (should be F.v.M., "Eucalyptographia" under 

 E. largiflorens). 



[b) Note on E. bicolor, Duff {partim). 



E. -bicolor, DuflF, in " Catal. of N.S.W. Forestry Exhibits," Melbourne, 

 Adelaide, and other ExhiI)itions, is called " Slaty Gum," and its timber is described 

 as " hard, tough, strong, durable, and said by experts to be one of the best 

 hardwoods ; used for fencing, wheelwrights' work, bridges, railway sleepers, and 

 house building; plentiful. Hab. open forests south-western river districts. Blue 

 Mountains, and the Darling River." 



It is evident that the above partly refers to E. bicolor, A. Cunn., and to 

 E. polyanthemos, Schauer, and it is only referred to on the present occasion as the 

 source whence E. bicolor, " Slaty Gum," has crept into numerous official reports. 



RANGE. 



It seems to be confined to South Australia, Victoria, New South Wales, and 

 Queensland. 



From St. Vincent's Gulf and the Murray River and its lower tributaries, through eastern Australia, 

 and particulaily its eastern tracts to Carpentaria, at l(>ast as far as the Flinders and Gilbert Rivers, but 

 reaching also, in some places, the coast tracts. — (Mueller, in Eucalij2)tographia.) 



This reference to "coast tracts" applies, as regards eastern Australia, to 

 Queensland solely. E, bicolor is a dry country species, and in central and northern 

 Queensland many Avestern New South Wales species approach the coast. It prefers 

 rich flats which are liable to occasional submergence. 



