EUCALYPTUS VIMINALIS. v 



Labillardifere, Novae HoUandise plantarum specimen ii. 12 1. 151 (1806); Sprengel, systema vegetabilium ii. 505 ; DeCandolle, 

 prodromua systeraatis naturalis regni vegetabilis iii. 218 ; J. Hooker, flora Tasmanioa i. 134 ; Miquel m Nederlandisk 

 Kruitkundig Archlev iv. 125 ; F. v. Mueller, fragmenta phytographise Australise ii. 64 ; Bentham, flora Australiensia 

 iii. 240 ; E. mannifera, 6. Bennett, Wanderings in New South Wales 319 (1834). 



Finally tall ; branchlets slender ; leaves scattered, elongate- or falcate-lanceolar, of equal 

 color on both sides ; lateral veins rather subtle, crowded, pinnately spreading, tlie circumferential 

 vein somewhat removed from the edge of the leaf ; oil-dots mostly concealed ; umbels generally 

 three-flowered, axillary, finally lateral, solitary, on slender not very long stalks ; calyces provided 

 with very short stalklets, neither angular nor rough ; their tube semiovate or almost hemispherical, 

 nearly as long as the semiovate slightly acute or short-pointed lid ; stamens all fertile, inflexed 

 before expansion ; anthers almost ovate, bursting with longitudinal slits ; stigma slightly broader 

 than the summit of the style ; fruits almost semiovate, three- or four-celled or rarely five-celled ; 

 rim broad, convex, rising towards the orifice ; valves finally quite exserted, deltoid ; sterile seeds 

 much narrower than the fertile seeds, all without any appendage. 



From Spencer's Gulf (E. Brown) to Gippsland (F. v. M.), thence through the less literal 

 portion of New South Wales, ascending into New England (Leichhardt), extending westward to 

 the Lachlan-Eiver (Cunningham), occurring also in Tasmania (Labillardifere) and in Kangaroo- 

 Island (Tate). 



In open country a middle-sized or comparatively not a very tall tree, but in deep forest-glens, 

 interspersed with other Eucalypts, rising to great height, Mr. D. Boyle having actually measured one 

 in the Dandenong-Eanges, which was 320 feet high, and had a stem-base of 17 feet diameter. 

 The author of this work has seen trees nearly as large on the Upper Yarra and on the Upper 

 Goulburn-Eiver, where also exceptionally basal circumferences of 60 feet have been noted ; this 

 species is however not generally an inmate of dense forests ; indeed it is mostly to be found in 

 open land, accommodating itself to poor and even sandy soil. It flowers already in a dwarf or 

 even a shrubby state, and has a preference for the silurian and metamorphic formations (Howitt). 

 Bark much persistent on the stem and sometimes also on the main-branches, outside rather dark- 

 colored, wrinkled and rough, comparatively solid in texture, though somewhat fragile ; through 

 secession leaving the younger bark outside smooth and whitish-grey or almost white, giving oif 

 externally, when rubbed, a fiour-like bloom, as does the bark of E. redunca. Professor Dr. Joseph 

 MoeUer of Vienna, in a splendid work on the anatomy of barks of trees, published two years ago 

 in Berlin, refers also specially to the bark of E. viminalis, his account being here given somewhat 

 abridged in translation : " The periderm contains rows of almost cubic partially unilateral-sclerotic 

 cork-cellules, and reaches quite to the bast ; the latter is scalariform-laminated through isolated or 

 not far extending plates of fibre-bundles ; the fibres of the bast are about 0-03 mm. broad, and 

 accompanied by chambered fibres (Kammer-Fasern), which contain prismatic crystals, similar to 

 those occurring in the bast of elms, and such crystals are scattered also through the soft bast ; the 

 latter consists of small cellules, is thin-walled and beset with roundish Kino-spots ; the sieve- 

 tubules (Sieb-Eohren) have the narrow perforated plates numerously ladder-like arranged ; some 

 parenchyma^cellules become isolated and enlarge to stone-cellules (Stein-Zellen) ; the medullary 

 rays are one- or two-rowed, are never sclerotic, and contain no crystals." The same distinguished 

 histoloo-ist gave already in 1875 an anatomic account of several kinds of Eucalyptus-bark in the 

 "Zeitschrift des oesterreichischen Apotheker-Vereins " No. 15, that of E. viminalis included. The 



