82 FOREST VEGETATION, 
Brown-BaRKED Gum.—Group Leiophloie — No. 4).— 
_ Bark reddish brown, smooth ~ eee mottled. The wood is 
red and hard. The leaf is is fro 4 inches long, and 1 wide, 
numerous, ight bluish-green in colour, and very glaucous. Seed- 
vessel: The umbel generally contains seven florets, six of which 
radiate, and the remainder stand in the centre. On t e young 
vessels the pedicel is short and thick, we as the calyx becomes 
more developed the pedicel becomes thinner nele is 
shorter than the operculum. The glaucous SBEs ance is very 
observable on the young seed-vessels. The calyx is os aiid 
three but sometimes four celled, and the valves poi 
flower is of a yellowish-white colour. Habi, shnoeh need 
rally on patches of ee soil, on priindeci pre count ; such, 
for instance, as about p itic or elvanite dykes, or outcrops in 
basaltic formations. In such situations it mene has an under- 
growth of dogwood (Jacksonia scoparia) and a little grass-tree. 
Wuire Guau.—Grou — 0i@ ee No. 5.)—Bark 
els of three florets; the operculum is slightly longer than 
the capsule; the pedicel is a as long as the peduncle ; 
some capsules are rt and secu | and the valves 
agen slightly. Habits, Se.: timber generally grows in 
rich red basaltic soils which are rowatncase, woven company 
with apple 
wkep-Barkep Gum.— —Group Leiophloie apes No.6.)— 
This tree attains a height of from fifty to six feet, and 
diameter = fifteen te sctie / inches. The bar. is smooth 
of 
of three florets, on het thick —- wee peduncle tos doreth 
of an inch long. ene operculum is equal in h to the capsule. 
calyx is as: ently three as four celled, and the valves 
protrude. Leaf e leaf is long, _ rather thick, and the 
midrib well ee te the aa nore mh cate, and close to 
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