EUCALYPTUS GUNNII. 



J. Hooker, in the London .Tounial of Botany iii. 499 (1844) ; flora Tasmanica i. 134, t. 27 ; F. v. M., fragmenta 

 pbytographife Australise ii. 62 ; Bentkam, flora Australiensis iii. 246; E. acervula, J. Hooker, flora Tasmanica 

 i. 135. 



The Swamp-Gum-tree or Cider-Eucalypt. 



Leaves scattered, oval- or oblong- or elongate-] anceolar or almost oval, acute at the base and 

 apex, not very inequilateral, rigid, shining and of equal and saturated green on both sides, their 

 oil-dots concealed or hardly developed, their lateral veins slightly prominent, somewhat distant 

 and moderately spreading, the circumferential vein distinctly removed from the edge of the leaf ; 

 umbels solitary, axillary and lateral, 3-10-flowered ; stalklets usually short or even hardly any, 

 seldom much elongated ; tube of the calyx obconical-semiovate or faintly bellshaj)ed, from slightly 

 to doubly exceeding the length of the mostly hemispheric and short-pointed lid ; stamens all 

 fertile, inflected before expansion ; anthers almost oval, bursting by longitudinal parallel slits ; 

 style short ; stigma depressed ; fruits topsliajoed-semiovate, seldom slightly bellshaped, not angular, 

 3-4- or rarely 5-celled ; rim rather narrow ; valves very short, deltoid, fixed close to the orifice, 

 almost enclosed ; seeds all without appendages. 



From the vicinity of Guichen-Bay and Lake Bonuey eastward to Gippsland, on alluvial flats 

 particularly in swampy places, but also on the sides of moist forest-hills and silvan mountains, 

 ascending in a dwarf state our alpine regions up to 5,500 feet height, extending at least as far as 

 Berrima into New South Wales (Woolls), frequent in Tasmania. 



A tree, rising under most favorable circumstances to a height of 250 feet, but usually not tall, 

 often of crooked growth, sometimes also dwarfed and exceptionally even somewhat procumbent on 

 coast-ridges, passing not unfrequently as a White Gum-tree, also occasionally under the designation 

 Yellow Gum-tree. Bark constantly under the process of separation (Howitt), rough and dark- or 

 greyish-brown at the butt or also on a portion of the stem or even sometimes up to some of the 

 main limbs, or in many cases smooth on the stem as well as on the branches, then greyish or 

 verging into a yellowish or brownish coloration. Hence the tree fluctuates in its cortical charac- 

 teristics between Leiophloise and Hemiphloiffi. Wood hard, very good for many j^urposes of 

 artisans, if straight stems are obtainable, as a rule not splitting well, but fair for fuel. Branches 

 very spreading. Mass of the foliage more dark, dense and shady than in many other Eucalypts. 

 Leaves shorter and comparatively broader and also stifier in the alpine state of the species, often 

 somewhat undulated in the large lowland-form, occasionally and more particularly towards the 

 margin assuming a reddish tinge. Stalks usually shorter than the umbels, more or less angular, 

 but not ddated, sometimes almost obliterated, bearing in the alpine variety occasionally merely 

 two or one flower, only in abnormal rare instances a few umbels crowded into panicles. Lid 

 occasionally very depressed and almost blunt, in other exceptional cases upwards nearly conical. 

 Tlie calyces and young brandies of plants of the coldest regions not rarely covered with a whitish 

 bloom. Leaves of young seedlings opposite, roundish, powdery-whitish or in the tall variety not 

 jiruinous. In the Alps this sjiecies flowers already at a heiglit of several feet, forming there, 

 associated with dwarfed E. paiiciflora, mainly tlie miniature-forests ; a shrubby state ]>roduciug 

 flowers may now and then also be met on coast-borders. The foliage lias not decidedly the 

 penetrating strong Ciiju[jnt-odor of most congeners ; hence cattle iind slieep readily browse on it, 

 a circuiustauce very unusual among Eucalypts, though noticed also in the case of E. coryno- 

 calyx. 



