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It is described by Bentharn (B.F1. iii, 256) as follows :— 



Usually a small or middle-sized tree, but sometimes attaining a great height, with a persistent 

 furrowed bark (F. Mueller). Leaves ovate-lanceolate or lanceolate, acuminate, about 3 to 6 inches long, with 

 numerous fine transverse parallel veins, often scarcely visible. Umbels loose, several flowered, mostly in 

 a terminal corymbose panicle, the peduncles slightly compressed or angular. Flowers rather large, on 

 pedicels of 2 to 4 lines. Calyx-tube, when open, broadly turbinate, 3 to 4 lines diameter, often dilated at 

 the margin. Operculum short, hemispherical, umbonate or shortly acuminate. Stamens attaining 5 or 6 

 lines; anthers very small but ovate, with distinct parallel cells opening longitudinally. Ovary short, 

 flat-topped. Fruit more or less urceolate, I to § inch long, usually contracted above the capsule and often 

 expanded at the orifice, the rim narrow, the capsule sunk. Seeds large, ovate, more or less bordered by 

 a wing, usually narrow. 



It is figured and described (a) in Mueller's " Eucalyptographia," and (b) in 

 Maiden's " Forest Flora of New South Wales," Vol. ii, p. 23. 



The juvenile leaves have not previously been described. They are depicted 

 in typical form at figs. 5 and la, Plate 161 ; and at fig. 6 the leaf is just progressing a 

 shade in the direction of the intermediate broadish form which will eventually evolve 

 into the lanceolate mature leaf. The juvenile leaf is shortly petiolate, almost orbicular 

 (say about 5 cm. in diameter), a little longer than broad, with a short, small, pointed 

 apex; the petiole deeply channelled, and it and the lamina more or less besprinkled 

 with short hairs. Margins undulate. The secondary veins roughly parallel, but 

 curved or looped inwards, with a fine network between the secondary veins. 



The juvenile (sucker) foliage petiolate ; also the young seedling foliage is 

 petiolate. 



The fruits vary in shape from urceolate (fig. 2, Plate 161) to ovoid (figs. % 3, 

 Plate 162); in size (compare fig. Zb, Plate 161, with fig. 4, Plate 162). Particularly in 

 Queensland, we have fruits smallish, spheroid, with seeds winged (not large wings), 

 so far as I have seen them. Pedicels slender; fruit speckled. This latter character 

 is suggestive of E. dichromophloia, but they are different from the fruits of that species, 

 both in shape, texture, and colouring. 



Scurfiness of Fruits.— The fruits are usually glabrous, but at the same time, 

 particularly in the ovoid series, they are dull coloured and often scurfy. I submitted 

 two duplicate sets of fruits to Mr. W. W. Froggatt, the Government Entomologist of 

 New South Wales, and Dr. G. P. Darnell-Smith, the Government Biologist. They both 

 informed me that this appearance is probably due to weathering, and that no insect or 

 fungus action can be detected. As this phenonemon is especially seen in the Corymbosse, 

 it is apparently owing to the comparatively fleshy nature of the exterior of most of the 

 fruits. 



Vernacular Name.— This tree is the original Bloodwood of the early colonists, 

 and it is perhaps as fortunate in its vernacular name as any of the Eucalypts. It exudes 

 abundance of kino (popularly known as " gum "—hence "gum-tree"), and, when 

 freshly exuded, this has all the appearance of a stream of blood. So freely does it 

 flow, and so like blood is it, that sometimes the appearance of the ground at the foot 



