EUCALYPTUS MACULATA. - 



Hooker, ioones plantarum t. 619 (1844); F. v. M., fragmenta pliytographise Australise ii. 47; Bentbam, flora 

 Australiensis iii. 258 ; WooUs, contributions to the Flora of Australia 231 ; E. oitriodora, Hooker, in Mitchell's 

 Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia 235 (1848) ; F. v. M., fragmenta pliytographiaj 

 A-ustralise ii. 47 & 174 ; Bentham, flora Australiensis iii. 257 ; E. melissiodora, Lindley, in Mitchell's Journal 

 of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia 235 ; Bentham, flora Australiensis iii, 254 ; E. variegata, 

 F. V. M., in the Journal of the Linneaa Society iii. 88 ; E. peltata, Bentham, flora Australiensis iii. 254. 



Finally tall ; branchlets slightly angular ; leaves scattered, elongated- or narrow-lanceolar, 

 often somewhat sicHeshaped, seldom more oval, of equal green on either side ; their lateral veins 

 crowded, pinnate-spreading, p)rominent, the circumferential vein very close or almost contiguous to 

 the edge ; oil-dots more or less concealed ; flowers in usually short panicles, 3 or 2 together or some 

 solitary, rarely 4 or more ; stalklets shorter than the calyces, somewhat angular ; tube of the 

 calyx almost semiovate or slightly bellshaped ; lid double, the outer hemispherical and pointed, 

 the inner depressed-semiglobular, transparent, shining, almost or quite blunt, both slightly or 

 somewhat shorter than the tube ; stamens all fertile, inflexed before expansion ; anthers oval- 

 clubshaped, bursting by parallel slits ; stigma not broader than the style ; fruits globular- or oval- 

 urnshaped ; rim narrow, valves 3, rarely 2 or 4, deeply enclosed, very short and quite retracted ; 

 fertile much larger than the sterile seeds, all without appendage. 



From the vicinity of Port Jackson (Newcastle, Leichhardt) known northward to Balmy Creek 

 (Sir Thomas Mitchell), the Burnett-Eiver (F. v. M.), Springsure and Gainsford (Dr. Wuth) ; at 

 Dunjog in the Devonian formation (Wilkinson), generally on rising ground or tops and sides of 

 hills. 



A handsome tree. Stem straight, with a length up to 90 feet till branched, and a diameter of 

 3 feet. Bark smooth, somewhat shining, whitish or sometimes reddish-grey, mottled by bluis h- 

 white or brown-reddish spots indicating the places or rudiments of patches of older bark ; 

 hence the vernacular name. Leaves more or less shining, sometimes but slightly so. Two umbels 

 occasionally arising from one point, appearing like one with 6 or 7 flowers, unless indeed they 

 should be regarded as such. Stalklets exceptionally equalling the calyx in length. Unopened 

 calyx often somewhat pearshaped. Outer operculum corresponding to the ordinary lid of 

 congeners ; inner lid forming a seceding integument to the cavity of the outer operculum. 

 Connective of the anthers broader than the very narrow valvular portion. Fruits varying from 

 ^ to f of an inch in length, slightly rough or even when dry faintly wrinkled, at all events not very 

 smooth. Fertile seeds black and somewhat shining, about \ of an inch long, almost dimidiate- 

 ovate, the often acute edge turned inward. The^_seedlings^ are rough from short red-brownish 

 hair ; their leaves scattered, stalked, oval- or oblong-lanceolar, inserted to the stalk above their 

 roundish undivided base, reminding thus of the seedlings of the West-Australian Eucalyptus 

 calophylla. 



The wood, as stated by the Eev. Dr. WooUs, is used in ship-building, for wheelwrights' and 

 coopers' work, but seems to vary in its qualities according to differences of localities, on which the 

 trees arose. 



E. citriodora can only be considered a variety of E. maculata, differing merely in the 

 exquisite lemon-scent of its leaves, and holding as a variety precisely the same position to 

 E. maculata, as Boronia citriodora to B. pinnata or Thymus citriodorus to T. Serpyllum. Mr. 

 Bailey, who had opportunities to compare the two trees promiscuously growing, confirms their 

 specific identity ; he moreover discovered at Trinity-Bay a variety of E. crebra or of an allied 



