are 



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 The principal botanical characters to be observed in a large number of specimens 



Juvenile leaves. The same as those of E. ovata, but may attain a larger size. 

 Mature leaves. Long or short petioles, sometimes very long. Lamina sometimes 



verv large and broad. Sometimes eruarginate. Sometimes not broad, 



undulate. 

 Buds. Operculum acute., and often constricted. 

 Fruits. Small, turbinate to urceolate, pedicellate to nearly sessile. 

 Rim flat or slightlv domed: often with a double raised ring. Valves usuallv 



markedlr exsert. but not alwavs so. 



RANGE. 



It is confined to Victoria and Xew South "Wales, so far as is known at present, 



and usually in very cold, and always in damp situations. It is not rare in the high 



country of North East Gippsland and of the Monaro. The Rylstone district is by far 



the most northerly locality recorded so far, and probably that of greatest average 



temperature. 



Victoria. 



Goulburn River. 1853. Very broad leaves, fruits not available (Mueller). 



' Tall form E. Gunnii/' Cpper Livingstone Creek, Gippsland (A. TV Hewitt). 



'• Falck's timber specimen, No. 13, August, 1879/' from Beechworth, with 

 acuminate leaves. Bright district. " Swamp Gum " (J.H.M.). 



Omeo to Mt. Hothani, 3,000-4,000 feet (R. H. Cambage, Xo. 3,682). 

 Stony Creek, Dargo (A. W. Howitt). "With leaves of typical camphora, but with 

 the fruits of small-fruited ovata. 



Bendoc (W. Forsyth). 



It is the tall moimtain form (c) of E. Gunnii of Howitt. ' Tliis much resembles 

 some of the lowland varieties, which grow upon dry tracts of land ; but the leaves are 

 shorter, more ovate, smoother, thicker in consistence, and rarely have the wavy margin 

 which is characteristic of the tall lowland form. Its lower limit is probably abotrt COO 

 feet above sea-level, but I think it possible that the tall lowland form intermingles 

 with it at that elevation, or less." (Howitt, op. cit., p. 102.) 



Perhaps the present is an opportune time to inquire into Howitt's views in regard 

 to the E. Gunnii series, in an important paper. 



He says (" The Eucalypts of Gippsland," Trans. Boy. Soc. Viet, ii, 101, 1890) 

 " E. Gunnii. This type is very widely spread over Gippsland, not only in horizontal 

 range, but also in elevation above the sea-level. I have observed a lowland and a high- 

 land form, and each of them has a dwarf variety," 



