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rarely rounded operculum ; anthers subovate, style short, stigma depressed, fruits broad — or semiovate — 

 turbinate, exangulate, 3-4 celled, the margin of the rim rather narrowly convex, the top of the capsule 

 at first smooth, the deltoid valves enclosed or protruding close to the margin, the seeds without membranes. 

 Growing in damp plains and valleys, and also in wetwoodymountains here and there throughsunny Australia 

 and Tasmania, extending towards the west to Guiehen Bay, ascending into the Alps. A tree bearing the 

 names " Eed Gum Tree " and " Cider Tree " with the Tasmanians, and attaining the height of 150 feet 

 (even on the tops of the highest mountains e.g., Mt. Juliett) more often, however, much lower, in cold regions 

 exposed to the wind, as near marshes on level ground it forms only a shrub, sometimes it flowers in the 

 shrubby stage. The branches are shady enough. The trunk, flayed of its outer layers of bark, is mostly 

 smooth and ash-coloured, retaining the old dark, ashy, furrowed bark full of clefts in the lowest part and 

 more rarely also in the higher part. The younger branchlets tetragonous, the older ones somewhat rounded. 

 Leaves 2-5 inches long, A-2 inches broad, in the summer scarcely ever transparently dotted, not seldom 

 undulate. Peduncles slightly compressed, 3-10 lines long. Pedicels sometimes obsolete, sometimes up 

 to 4 lines long. Calyx tube 2-4 lines long, often shiny, not angular. Operculum 2-3 lines broad, 

 coriaceous, sometimes very much depressed, sometimes rather acutely and lengthily acuminate, often 

 endued with brightness, the second fugacious calyptra sometimes given as about a line. Filaments 

 slender, whitish, yellowish when dry, the longer ones measuring 2-3 lines. Anthers versatile, pale, J-J 

 line long, bilobed at the base, in flower pressed together almost like a little club. Style l|—2 lines long, 

 somewhat thicker. Fruit 2-4 lines long, almost as broad at the top. Valves rising close to the margin of 

 the vertex, longer or shorter than a line, eventually raised up. Sterile seeds J-l line long, shining yellow, 

 the longer ones clavelliform, the shorter rhombiform: fertile seeds oblong — or orbicular-ovate, convex at 

 the back, somewhat flat in the front, blackish, faintly latticed. 



This species sometimes approaches E. viminalis, sometimes E. persicifolia and E. acervula, perhaps 

 also E. acervula J. Hook. Flowered in Tasmania I.e. and also embracing E. daphnoides Miq. Stirp. New 

 Holland 37. 



A rather gigantic tree, associated with and in the same places, E. globulus, near Sealer's Cove, called 

 "Gum Top Tree," showing timber less durable than E. globulus but in other respects similar; it is 

 distinguished by the old bark at the base of the trunk which is fibrous after the manner of that of E. gigantea. 

 This huge tree will be referred to E. Gunnii with hardly any doubt. The Tasmanian tree called " Swamp 

 Gum Tree," which I have not seen, perhaps belongs to the same place. 



E. daphnoides Miq. is a synonym of E. coccifera Hook f. (See p. 143 Part V of 

 the present work.) 



This is not typical Gunnii Hook, f., but the Red Gum of Tasmania. It is clear 

 what Mueller's plant is, from the description, but the matter is placed beyond any doubt 

 by a specimen (which is E. ovata) in Herb. Kew, and which bears the label " E. Gunnii " 

 in Mueller's handwriting, with E. Stuartiana Miq., and E. Baueriana Miq. as synonyms. 



11. E. palltdosa R. T. Baker, iu Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W. xxiii, 167 (1898). 



(E. Stuartiana F.v.M., var. longifolia, Benth., B.Fl. ni, p. 214). " Manna," " Yellow," " Ribbony," 

 " Swamp," or " Flooded Gum." 



A tree " not exceeding 80 feet in height " (Sir W. Macarthur), with a diameter 6 feet from the ground 

 1 foot 6 inches to 2 feet. In the young state up to a trunk of 5 to 6 inches, it is very similar to E. viminalis 

 Labill. Bark brown at the butt, bluish-white on the trunk and main branches, and yellow on the smaller 

 branches and limbs, decorticating into long ribbons of 30 feet or more suspended from the forks and trunks 

 of the trees. 



The lower young leaves opposite, sessile, ovate-acuminate, rarely cordate ; the upper ones petiolatc, 

 irregularly opposite, lanceolate, venation distinct, oil-glands numerous, coriaceous, often shining and of a 

 yellowish-green on both sides. Mature leaves on petioles rarely exceeding an inch, lanceolate-acuminate, 

 varying in length up to 8 or 9 inches, coriaceous, lateral veins oblique, fairly numerous and equally prominent 

 on both sides, but in some instances scarcely visible, the intramarginal vein removed from the edge in the 

 broader leaves, but closer in the narrower ones, slightly shining on both sides, oil-glands not numerous, drying 

 with a yellowish tinge. 



