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DESCRIPTION, 



LXVIL E. fasciculosa, F.v.M. 



Trans. Vict. Inst., 34 (1855). ■ 

 Following is the original descrijjtion : — 



Arborescent; leaves alternate, opaque, glauc.ese.ent, elongate — lanceolate, curved, gradually 

 tapering into an uncinate acumen, thinly veined, destitute of pellucid dots ; umbels paniculate, few- 

 flowered, nearly hemispherical, minutely apiculate, thin and smooth ; tube of the calyx clavate, obconical, 

 angular, glandulose, contracted at the top, gradually tapering into a short pedicel, three times longer than 

 the lid ; fruits obconico-campanulate, slightly contracted at the orifice ; valves of the capsule inclosed, 

 seeds clatlirate. 



On barren ridges along St. Vincent's Gulf, on the Gawler River, in the Mount Lofty Ranges and 

 Bugle Ranges, and on Encounter Bay. 



The following year it was described in the following way : — 



37. Eucalyptus fasciculosa, Ferd. Mull. : ramulis tenuibus viridulis superne saltern angulatus, foliis 

 longiuscule petiolatis e basi acuta inaequali elongato-lanceolatis rigidule et uncinatim apiculatis marginibus 

 leviter incrassatis, costa utrinque distinct;!, venis subobtectis, umbellis axillaribus terminal ibusque 

 subpaniculatim confertis, 4-8 floris, floribus breviter pedicellatis, calyois-tubo obconico, operculo semi 

 globoso apiculato pallido quam tubus duplo breviore. 



In nemore Pine-forest prope Roolands-flatt, Villmaga, Galway-town (F. Miiller) (misprints for 

 Rowland's Flat, Willunga, Gawler Town, Gawler.— J. H.M.). 



Frutex. Petioli f poll, longi. Folia 4-5 poll, longa, f-1 lata. Pedunculi 1J-2 lin. longi. Pedicell. 

 subquadrangulares. Calycis tubus tenuiter punctatus cum pedicello 2 lin. sequans." (Miq. in Ned- 

 Kruidk. Arch., iv, 138-9 (1856). 



It was then referred to by Bentham in B.F1. iii, 212, as a variety of 

 E. paniculata, Sin. ; and Mueller (" Eucalyptographia "), under E. paniculata, 

 perpetuated the error. 



All the following refer to E. fasciculosa : — 



In South Australia it is a White-gum Tree, seldom rising there above 30 feet, even often of less 

 height, with the outer layers of bark deciduous, leaving the stem grey and white-mottled and smooth 



(McEwin). It flowers in a shrubby state already the flowers of the variety fasciculosa 



are smaller, the lid is proportionately shorter and still more thinly membraneous. 



The period of flowering seems a long one, at least that of the variety in South Australia, where 

 blooming panicles have been gathered from December to May ; they are not much scented. (Mueller in 

 " Eucalyptographia," under E. paniculata.) 



E. fasciculosa is not included in Tate's " Flora of Kangaroo Island," Proc. 

 Hoy. Soc. S.J., vi, 157; but E. largijlorens (E. bicolor), Cygnet River, Water- 

 house, is included instead. E. fasciculosa is not recorded in Tate's " Plants of 

 Extra- tropical South Australia/' It is the plant figured by J. E. Brown in his 

 "Forest Flora of South Australia," under the name of Eucalyptus paniculata, 

 Sm., the " Panicle-flowered White Gum." 



It may be redescribed in the following words : — 



A tree of small or medium size, bark smooth, or somewhat flaky at the butt, timber deep reddish- 

 brown. 



Juvenile loavOS broad, nearly ovate, venation marked, and with the intramarginal vein remote 

 from the edge. 



