EUCALYPTUS GLOBULUS. ■ 



Labillardifere, relation du voyage a la reclierche de La P^ronse i. 153, t. 13 (1799), English translation by 

 Stookdale 111-112, pi. 13 (1800) ; plantanim Nova; HoUatidise specimen ii. 121 ; Sprengel, systema vegeta- 

 bilium ii. 500; De Candolle, prodromus systematis regni vegetabilis iii. 220; G. Don, general system of 

 dicblamydeous plants ii. 820 ; D. Dietrich, synopsis plantarum iii. 122 ; Lindley and Paxton, the Flower- 

 Garden of new and remarkable plants, li. 38, fig. 153 (1852) ; .1. Hooker, flora Tasmanica i. 133 ; P. v. M. in 

 Nederlandisk Eruidkundig Archief iv. 140; fragraenta phytographise Austral ise ii. 68; plants indigenous to 

 the Colony of Victoria supplemental plate 16 ; Bentham, flora Australiensis iii. 225 ; Stewart and Brand!?, 

 Forest-Flora of North-West and Central India 231 ; Bentley and Trimen, medicinal plants, part 15, t. 109 

 (1876); F. V. M., introduction to botanic teachings p. 7, figs, i.-vi. 



The ordinary " Blue Gum-tree " of Victoria and Tasmania. 



Finally very tall ; branchlets robust, quadrangular ; leaves scattered, mostly large, lanceolav- 

 sickleshaped, of thick consistence, of equal color and somewhat shining on both sides, the lateral 

 veins moderately spreading and slightly prominent, but not crowded, the circumferential vein 

 rather distant fr om the edge of the leaf ; oildots mostly concealed ; flowers generally large, axillary, 

 solitary, less frequently two or three together, sessile, or their common stalk very short broad and 

 compressed ; stalklets none ; calyx tinged with a bluish-white bloom ; lid depressed-hemispherical, 

 rcarty-glandular , suddenly raised from the centre to a thick point, nearly as long as the almost 

 obverse-pyramidal angular warty-glandular tube ; stamens all fertile, inflexed before expansion ; 

 anthers oblong-oval, opening by parallel longitudinal slits ; stigma not or hardly broader than 

 the style ; fruit rather large, verging to a hemispheric or obverse-pyramidal form, longitudinally 

 angular, 3- to 6- rarely 6-celled ; its rim broad, depressed or convex, at the edge separated from 

 the calyx-tube by an ample furrow ; valves emergent or convergent, deltoid ; seeds all without 

 any appendage, the sterile much narrower than the fertile seeds. 



In valleys as well as on ridges and mountain-slopes, chiefly in hu mid regions of the southern 

 and eastern portions of our colony, from the vicinity of Cape Otway to Wilson's Promontory, 

 northward to the Hume- and Tumut-Rivers in the southern part of New South Wales, occurring 

 also between Braidwood and Araluen, according to the Eev. Eob. Collie, mostly dispersed, but 

 sometimes gregarious, noticed also on the islands of Bass' Straits and frequent in many but 

 particularly the southern parts of Tasmania, not ascending to alpine elevations. 



The bark is smooth and greyish- or bluish-white, unless where it may persist at the base of 

 the bole and thus becomes thickened, dark and rough. The general flowerstalks, though usually 

 suppressed, are occasionally extended to \ inch length. The bracts are connate and fugacious. 

 The anthers are dorsally fixed, turn in a horizontal direction and are somewhat tapering towards 

 the lower extremity. The central point of the lid is conical or blunt. Fruits occur exceptionally 

 of reduced size, and their surrounding furrow is then almost obliterated. 



E. cordata, E. diversifolia and perhaps also E. heterophylla of Miquel, as mentioned in the 

 fourth volume of the Kruidkundig Archief, belong to E. globulus. 



E. globulus is at once distinguished from all its numerous congeners — except E. alpina — ^by 

 the warty-glandular calyces, covered by a crovmshaped lid ; besides the shape of its almost or 

 quite sessile fruit is exclusively peculiar and bears resemblance only to that of E. megacarpa and 

 E. Preissiana. The seedlings are of a waxy-powdery somewhat bluish whiteness, have sharply 

 quadrangular stems and sessile heartshaped or cordate-ovat e leases. These characteristics, taken 

 unitedly, offer already marks of discrimination in comparison to E. alpina. The latter is moreover 

 of very slow growth, remains always a shrub, has thicker more shining almost oval or even 

 roundish leaves, smaller flowers, nearly heartshaped anthers, less angular fruits with more 



