EUCALYPTUS HEMIPHLOIA. 



F. V. M., fragmenta phytographise Australiee ii. 62 ; Bentham, flora Australiensis iii. 216 ; E. albens, Miquel, in 

 Nederlandisk Kruidkundig Arohief iv. 138 ; Bentham, flora Australiensis iii. 219. 



Finally tall ; leaves scattered, elongate- or oval-lanceolar, of firm consistence, of equal color 

 on both sides, only slightly or sometimes moderately curved, not very shining, the lateral veins 

 diverging at a very acute angle, the circumferential vein very evidently removed from the edge of 

 the leaf ; oil-dots usually obliterated or much concealed ; umbels in lateral or terminal short 

 panicles or some solitary, on angular stalks, with from 4 to 10 flowers ; calyces somewhat angular ; 

 stalklets comparatively thick, of the length of the tube or shorter ; lid broadish-conical, rather 

 acute or even pointed, seldom semiovate, about as long as the tube or somewhat shorter ; stamens 

 all fertile, inflexed before expansion ; anthers very minute, globular, opening laterally by pore-like 

 apertures ; stigma slightly or not broader than the style ; fruits truncated-ovate or hemiellipsoid, 

 3-5-celled, the rim narrow-compressed, prominent, valves quite enclosed, short ; seeds without any 

 appendage, the fertile much larger than the short sterile seeds. 



Dispersed from Port Jackson (WooUs) to New England (C. Stuart), Glendon (Leichhardt), 

 Toowoomba (Hartmann) and the western districts of New South Wales (C. Moore), Gainsford 

 and Herbert's Creek (Bowman), the Dawson- and Burnett-Rivers (F. v. M.), Mackenzie-River 

 (O'Shanesy), occurring farther on the Tambo-River (Howitt) and Snowy- River, also from the 

 Broughton- and Broken-Rivers to Mount Remarkable (F. v. M.), on the Flinders-Ranges up to 

 2,000 feet elevation (J. E. Brown). It grows on flats, often forming the "box-forests," but prin- 

 cipally on rough and dry ridges or hills, yet indicating according to the Revd. Dr. WooUs, often 

 good grazing country. 



In the more humid literal tracts of east- and south-coast Australia this species attains a 

 height of about 150 feet, with a stem of as much as 3 feet thickness (Thozet) ; in the drier 

 regions of northern Victoria and further westward it is oftener a dwarf tree. The bark of the 

 stem persists, is solid, outside greyish and somewhat wrinkled, but never dark nor deeply 

 furrowed, the outer layers of the bark gradually peel ofi' from most portions of the branches in 

 flakes or long strips. The timber is pale, strong, hard, of close and interlocked grain and not 

 fissile ; it furnishes material for lasting fence-posts and various building purposes and wheel- 

 wrights' work, also for such sundry utensils as need toughness of wood for their manufacture, as 

 mauls and handles. Posts of this wood after sixteen years were found almost perfectly sound in 

 the ground, but the best timber (as in all other cases of Eucalypts) comes from hilly country. 

 Stems are apt to become hollow in age (J. E. Brown). 



Foliage comparatively dense ; upper portion of branchlets angular ; leaves stiff, conspicuously 

 stalked, often pale-green, but in the eastern coast-districts also dark-green, their veins sometimes 

 prominent, sometimes faint. The tube of the calyx often merging gradually into the stalklet ; 

 lid in some instances double, the outer one seceding earlier. Filaments pale or rarely of a deep 

 purplish color, exceptionally \ inch long ; some of the anthers occasionally dilated. Summits of 

 the valves often long cohering and breaking off connectedly. Fruit variable in size, but never 

 large. Dr. Leichhardt found the tree flowering in March, Dr. WooUs in June, particular seasons 

 and localities exercising their effect in this respect. The natives of subtropical Eastern Australia 

 call this tree "Narulgun," according to Mr. O'Shanesy. 



E. albens, which occurs near Mount Remarkable and in some other localities not far from 

 the apex of Spencer's Gulf, also in the vicinity of the Avoca, Loddon, Campaspe, Broken, Ovens 

 and Snowy Rivers (F. v. M.), along the whole valley of the Tambo (Howitt), on the Upper 



