EUCALYPTUS EUGENIOIDES. 



Sieber in Sprengel systema vegetabilium, curse posteriorea 195 (1827) ; De Candolle, prodromus systematis naturalis regni 

 vegetabilis iii. 218 ; F. v. M., select plants for industrial culture, N.S.W. edit. 119. 



Finally tall ; leaves scattered, sickleshaped-lanceolar or sometimes verging into an ovate form, 

 usually not much elongated, on both sides dark-green and shining, towards the base very 

 inequilateral; their lateral veins subtle, moderately spreading, the circumferential vein somewhat 

 removed from the margin of the leaf ; oil-dots copious and mostly pellucid; umbels 4-20-flowered, 

 axillary and solitary or some few occasionally paniculated ; stalk rather slender, somewhat 

 angular ; stalhlets about as long as the calyx-tube or shorter ; lid broad- or hemispheric-conical, 

 acute, almost smooth, about as long as the obconic-semiovate tube of the calyx ; stamens all fertile, 

 inflexed before expansion ; anthers kidneyshaped or verging to a cordate form, opening anteriorly 

 by divergent slits ; stigma not broader than the summit of the style ; fruits rather small, truncate- 

 globular, not quite narrow at the edge, not angular, 3-4- or rarely 5-celled ; valved deltoid, affixed 

 near the orifice of the fruit, enclosed or slightly exserted ; sterile seeds mostly not much narrower 

 than the fertile seeds, all without any appendage. 



From the Dandenong-Ranges and their vicinity to various hilly or mountainous places in 

 Gippsland and to Twofold-Bay (F. v. M., Boyle, Howitt), extending widely over the table-lands 

 towards BuUi (Kirton), thence to near Port Jackson (Sieber, Woolls), to the neighborhood of 

 Mittagong and Yass (Wilkinson), advancing to New England and Moreton-Bay (Leichhardt, 

 Bailey), and to the Condamine-Eiver (Hartmann). 



One of the stringybark-trees of Victoria, New South Wales and Queensland, where it is 

 sometimes called the " White Stringybark-tree." 



A tree attaining a height of about 200 feet, occurring mostly in elevated poor grounds, but 

 descending also into sandy low lands. Stem straight, covered as well as the branches with a thick 

 fibrous outside fissurated bark, which serves for rough roofing, but the inner tougher portion also 

 for tying and even for the manufacture of mats, and it can also be converted into packing paper. 

 The wood is pale-colored, splits well into shingles, palings, rails and slabs, and can also be sawn 

 into flooring boards, but is of very inferior value for fuel ; it is stated to be somewhat less fissile 

 than that of some of the other stringybark-trees, and that it is also more lasting. The youn g 

 seed lings have sc attered narrow lanceolar leaves and are tufty-hairy on the stems and leaf-stalks ; 

 hence the E. scabra (Dumont de Courset, le Botanist-cultivateur vii. 280 (1814) is probably 

 referable to this species, as indicated by De Candolle. The fruits sometimes are almost as closely 

 crowded as those of B. capitellata. Specimens distributed by Sieber under 469 seem referable to 

 E. eugenioides, and would therefore add as a synonym E. acervula (Sieber in De Cand. prodr. iii. 

 217), but those available here are in bud only. 



This Eucalyptus has here been distinctly described and illustrated, particularly on the 

 recommendation of the Rev. Dr. Woolls, in order that so important a timber-tree, which ranges 

 so gregariously over wide areas of country, should have a duly prominent place in this work. 

 Nevertheless the distinctions between E. piperita and E. eugenioides are not yet clearly made out, 

 and perhaps Bentham's views, that both should be regarded as forms of one species, may finally 

 have to be adopted. Indeed in the course of years, from extended observations and augmented 

 museum-material, the diagnostics of many of the Eucalypts will have to be more firmly fixed yet, 

 and especially those of all the Stringybark-Eucalypts. The bark of E. eugenioides does not 

 secede from the branches as is the case with that of E. pilularis. Sieber selected the specific 



