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Buds. — The calyx is sometimes swollen, while the operculum remains 

 stationary in size. (See figure 7, pi. 25.) Mr. Froggatt informs me that this is the work 

 of probably a parasitic wasp (one of the Chalcidece). I have noticed the same 

 appearance in the buds of some other species. 



Bark. — This tree attains its fullest development in the alpine country of 

 North-eastern Victoria and South-eastern New South "Wales. There the butt is 

 rough, more or less furrowed, hard and black, almost like an ironbark, with the 

 upper part of the trunk and the branches quite smooth. This species is remarkable 

 for the large quantity of chlorojihyll in this smooth portion, it being the greenest 

 barked of all Eucalypts, but in many districts the smooth portion is rather of a lead 

 colour. In districts where the tree is stunted the amount of rough bark is usually 

 very small, so that it passes for a " gum " {i.e., a smooth-barked tree). 



Tiiulber. — Pale coloured, rarely free from gum- veins, warps seriously; a 

 sound log of any size very rare ; of little value for purposes other than fuel. 

 Timber that shrinks much in drying may do so regularly or irregularly. Those of 

 the first class have, when dry, practically the same shape as the original piece, but 

 those of the second class take on irregular shapes. The timbers of E. stellulata 

 and E. coviacea belons: to the latter class. 



SYNONYMS. 



1. E. leucadendron, A. Cunn. 

 Var. angustifolia, Benth. 



2. E. mierophylla, A. Cunn., partim. 



3. E. Cunninghamii, Sweet, partim. 



4. E. Cunninghamii, G. Don, partim. 



NOTES ON THE SYNONYMS. 



1. "Eucalyptus leucadendron, C. (Allan Cunningham). 



" White Gum of the south-western interior, New South Wales, 1824." 

 Specimens collected l)y Allan Cunningham are in Herb. Kew, and also in Herb. 

 Cant, (ex Herb. Lindl.), and arc E. stellulata, Sieb. 



