EUCALYPTUS PAUCIFLORA. 



Sieber, in Sprengel curse posteriores 195 (1S27) ; E. coriacea, Cunningham, in Walpers repertorium botanicea 

 systematicse ii. 925 (1843) ; J. Hooker, flora Tasmanica i. 136 ; F. M., fragmenta phytographise Australiae ii. 

 52 ; Bentham, flora Australiensis iii. 201 ; E. piperita, varietas pauciflora, De Candolle, prodromus systematis 

 naturalis regni vegetabilis iii. 119 ; B. phlebophylla, F. v. M, et Miquel, in Nederlaudisk Kruitkundig Archiev 

 It. 14,0 ; E. submultiplinervis, Miquel, as quoted, 138. 



Finally tall ; leaves scattered, elongated-lanceolar, sometimes verging into a lanceolar-oval 

 form, but slightly curved or somewhat sickleshaped, of equal color and shining on both sides, of 

 thick consistence ; veins almost longitucliTial, several arising nearly together from the acute base of 

 the leaf, the intramarginal vein slightly removed from the edge and all main-veins often prominent ; 

 umbels axillary, solitary or sometimes forming a short racemous panicle, varying with from few 

 to many flowers in each, on almost cylindrical or somewhat angular but never dilated-compressed 

 and seldom much elongated flowerstalks ; flowers rather small, on very short stalklets ; tube of 

 the calyx semiovate-obconical, not strongly angular ; lid hemispheric, twice or thrice shorter than 

 the tube, quite blunt or occasionally somewhat acute or much depressed ; stamens generally all 

 fertile, inflexed before expansion ; anthers almost kicbieyshaped, opening by very divergent slits ; 

 stigma not broader than the summit of the style ; fruits semi-ovate or truncate-ovate, slightly or 

 hardly contracted at the summit, 3- more rarely 4- to 5-celled, their rim more or less flat ; valves 

 very short, convergent from near the summit of the orifice, not or but slightly esserted, almost 

 deltoid ; seeds without any appendage, the sterile mostly not much narrower than the fertile seeds. 



From the lowest liills to the highest mountains, as well in the granite- as in slate-formations, 

 from the G-lenelg-Eiver (F. v. M.) dispersed through the southern districts of the colony of 

 Yictoria and the coast-countries of New South Wales, there known westward to Mittagong 

 (Moore) and Braidwood (Wilkinson), extending to New England (Leichhardt), reaching in a 

 dwarfed state to nearly the snow-line in the Australian Alj^s, frequent through the ridgy lowlands 

 and also the uplands of Tasmania. 



A medium-sized tree, but occasionally fully 100 feet high, of stately and even handsome 

 appearance, the stem reaching a diameter of 4 feet ; the main branches often very spreading ; the 

 branchlets slender and more or less pendulous. The bark is smooth, not very thick and outside 

 •whitish-grey as in other trees of the section Leiophloiaa, and hence it is also one of the White 

 Gum-trees of the colonists. The branchlets and inflorescence, particularly in the alpine variety, 

 are sometimes covered with a bluish-white bloom. The oil-dots are copiously visible only in the 

 young and then still membranous leaves, but become concealed or obliterated, when the foliage 

 attains its almost leathery tliickness ; the veins are not rarely, particularly in colder regions, 

 tinged conspicuously red, in which coloration the branchlets also often participate. Leaves occur 

 occasionally on young trees or on adventitious shoots lengthened to nearly one foot and widened 

 to a breadtli of over half a foot, thus presenting almost an oval form, as shown in the background 

 of the lithogram. In the alpine variety the leaves are often shorter and proportionately broader 

 and the fruits smaller. A pair of lanceolar bracts enclose the umbel in its earliest stage. Sir 

 Joseph Hooker counted up to forty flowers in an umbel ; I found sometimes as few as three only. 

 Opossums have a predilection for the young foliage, so much so, tliat in localities, where these 

 creatures are long out of reach of the aboriginal or colonial hunters, E. pauciflora often dies 

 through being deprived of its respiratory organs for the continuance of the functions of its life. 

 Even cattle and sheep browse in seasons of drought on tlic foliage (Woolls). 



