141 



Peduncles axillary, under i inch long, flattened, with 7 to. 10 sessile flowers. Calyx tube 3 lines 

 long. Operculum conical, shortly acuminate, much shorter than the calyx-tube. Stamens inflected in 

 the bud. Anthers oblong, with parallel cells, the connective about half their length and prominent on 

 both sides. Ovary half the length of the bud, placenta attached to the top and bottom of the ovary. 



Fruit sessile, conical, truncate, with a ring just below the rim, 3- or 4-celled, valves not exserted. 



Hab.— Monga (Braidwood, TF. Bauerlen); Delegate (Bombala, W. Bauerlen); Wingecarribee (TT. 

 Woods); Hill Top (J. II. Maiden); Barber's Creek (H. Ramsey). 



Ill a paper (Proc. Roy. Soc. Tas. 1912, p. 149) Messrs. Baker and Smith state 

 that E. acervula Hook. f. and E. paludosa R. T. Baker are specifically distinct, specifying 

 the following differences : — 



(a) The smooth bark of E. paludosa and the rough bark, " mostly " of E. 

 acervula. 



(b) Bushy top and leaves of rather pendulous growth of E. acervula, while E. 

 paludosa " is a fine typical tree, with stout outstretching branches and a straight stem." 



(c) The timber of E. acervula is harder, closer grained, and altogether superior 

 to that of E. paludosa." 



(d) " The oil of E. acervula does not agree entirely in general characters with 

 that of E. paludosa." 



Let us examine these points in detail. 



(a) Rodway, Tasmanian Flora, p. 57, says of E. acervula, " Bark scaly below, 

 smooth above."' A field note of mine on a New South Wales specimen of Mr. Baker's 

 E. paludosa is " fibrous at butt— a white gum." I know both trees, and at different 

 times would describe them similarly. 



(b) Hooker says of acervula, " trunk erect, often lofty." Personally, I have not 

 been able to'see any difference between E. acervula and E. paludosa in habit. 



(c) It requires long experience of timber-workers to decide the relative merits 

 of two timbers grown in different States. 



(d) Some difference is to be looked for, and the value of the difference can only 

 be ascertained after careful examination of the products of many trees. (Maiden in 

 Proc. Roy. Soc. Tas. 1914, p. 25.) 



12. E. Gunnii Hook. f. var. data Hook. f. " arbor elata, foliis longioribus, umbellis 

 plurifloris," under Tab. 7808 Bot. Mag. (1901). 



Hooker gives figs. 3 and 4, in addition to the following synonymy : — 



(a) E. Stuarliana F.v.M. ex Miq. in Ned. Kruidk. Arch. iv. 139, Eucalyplograpltia, 



Dec. iv. 



(b) E. persicifolia Miq. I.e. (non Lodd).. 



(c) E. Baueriana Miq. I.e., p. 137 (non Schau.). 

 . (d) E.falci folia Miq. I.e., p. 136 (partim). 



(e) E. acervula Hook. f. Fl. Tasman. i, 135 (non Sieb.). 

 if) E. Gunnii F.v.M. Fragm, u, 62 (non Hook. f.). 



