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DESCRIPTION, 



LXVIL E. fasciculosa, F.v.M. 



Trans. Vict. Inst., 34 (1855). 

 Following is the original description : — 



Arborescent ; leaves alternate, opaque, glaucescent, elongate — lanceolate, curved, gradually 

 tapering into an uncinate acumen, thinly veined, destitute of pellucid dots ; umbels paniculate, few- 

 flowered, nearly hemispherical, minutely apicula'e, thin and smooth ; tube of the calyx clavate, obconical, 

 angular, glandulose, contracted at the top, gradual!}' tapering into a short pedicel, three times longer than 

 the lid ; fruits obconieo-campanulate, slightly contracted at the orifice ; valves of the capsule inclosed, 

 .seeds clathrate. 



On barren ridges along St. Vincent's Gulf, on the Gawler River, in the Mount Lofty Ranges and 

 Bugle Ranges, and on Encounter Bay. 



The following year it was described in the following way : — 



.37. Eucalyptus fasciculosa, Ferd. Mttll. : ramulis tenuibus viridulis superne saltem angulatus, foliis 

 longiusculo petiolatis e basi acuta inaequali elongato-lanceolatis rigidule et uncinatim apiculatis marginibus 

 leviter incrassatis, costa utrinque distincta, venis subobtectis, umbellis axillaribus terminal ibusque 

 subpanioulatim confertis, 4-8 floris, floribus breviter pedicellatis, calycis-tubo oLdonico, operculo Setni 

 globoso apiculato pallido quam tubus duplo breviore. 



In nemore Pine-forest prope Roolands-flatt, Villmaga, Galway-town (F. Miiller) (misprints for 

 Rowland's Flat, Willunga, Gawler Town, Gawler.— J. H.M.). 



Frutex. Petioli f poll, longi. Folia 4-5 poll, longa, |-1 lata. Pedunculi 1^-2 lin. longi. Pedicell. 

 subquadrangulares. Calycis tubus tenuiter punctatus cum pedicello 2 lin. ;equans." (Miq. in ^ed- 

 Krmdk. Arch., iv, 138-9 (1856). 



It was then referred to by Beutham in B.El. iii, 212, as a variety of 

 E. paniculata, Sm. ; and Mueller (" Eucalyptographia "), under E. paniculata, 

 perpetuated the error. 



All the following refer to E. fasciculosa : — 



In South Australia it is a White-gum Tree, seldom rising there above 30 feet, even often of less 

 height, with the outer layers of bark deciduous, leaving the stem grey and white-mottled and smooth 



(McEwin). It flowers in a shrubby state already the flowers of the variety /rtsc/cjttosa 



are smaller, the lid is proportionately shorter and still more thinly membraneous. 



The period of flowering seems a long one, at least that of the variety in South Australia, where 

 l)looniing panicles have been gathered from December to May ; they are not much scented. (Mueller in 

 " Eucalyptographia," under E. panicidata.) 



E. fascunlosa is not included in Tate's " Flora of Kangaroo Island," Proc. 

 Hoy. Soc. S.A., vi, 157; but E. largijlorens {E. bicolor), Cygnet River, Water- 

 house, is included instead. E. fasciculosa is not recorded in Tate's "Plants of 

 Extra-tropical Soutli Australia." It is the plant figured by J. E. Brown in his 

 "Forest Flora of South xiustralia," under the name of Eucalyptus j^ftf'iculata, 

 Sm., the " Panicle-flowered White Gum." 



It may be redescribed in the following words : — 



A tree of small or medium size, bark smooth, oi- somewhat Haky at the butt, timber deep reddish- 

 brown. 



JuV61lill> lc:iVOS broad, nearly ovate, venation marked, and with the intramarginal vein remote 

 from the edge. 



