DESCRIPTION. 



CI. E, goniocalyx, F.v.M. 



In Miquel's Stirp. Nov. Roll, in Ned. Kruidk. Arch, iv, 134 (1856). 



The original description is in Latin, and a copy will be found in my Forest Flora of 

 New South Wales, vol. i, 116. 



The type specimens came from the Buffalo Range in north-eastern Victoria. 



Following are the earliest specimens seen by me, labelled E. goniocalyx by 

 Mueller himself : — 



(«)■ Buffalo Eange, March, 1853 ; (6) Mitchell River, April, 1854. 



It was again described in Latin in the Fragmentu ii, 48, in May, 1860. 



The localities quoted in the Fragmenta are the original one, and to this was 

 added Mount BuUer, Loutitt Bay (between Cape Otway and Port Phillip), the 

 sources of the Rivers Yarra and Barwon and the River Mitchell (all in Victoria). 

 The localities are inland mountain and also coastal. 



The tree, " small or tall," was called " Spotted Gum," its bark rough and 

 peeling off (rugosus, secedens) . 



Then Mueller {Fragm. iv, 52) in February, 1864, described E. elaeophora 

 from grassy mountains near the McAlister River (north-eastern Victoria), par- 

 ticularly in the neighbourhood of Mt. Ligar. 



The tree was small, and with bark persistent, rough, and of a dirty ashy grey 

 (persistente rugoso sordide cinerascente). 



Then in B.Fl. iii, 229, in describing E. goniocalyx in English, Bentham 

 speaks of the " bark rough and persistent on the trunk, at least when the tree is 

 large, deciduous in the upper part (Oldfield), usually deciduous, but sometimes 

 persistent (F. Mueller.) Leaves ovate-lanceolate to lanceolate" . . . and he 

 makes E. elcBophora, F.v.M., a synonym. 



Mueller, in Eucalyptographia, accepts Bentham's conclusion, and figures the 

 species, which he terms " The Spotted Gum of Victoria," although he does not confine 

 his description to that tree. 



He says : " As regards the nature of the bark, it fluctuates between 

 Hemiphloise and Leiophloige ; in the latter case the tree passes among the woodmen 

 as Blue and "White Gum-tree ; in the other case as Grey or Bastard Box." 



