ON SOME REPUTED AUSTRALIAN EUCALYPTUS HYBRIDS. 419 
extending to the first fork. The rough bark rather hard, 
but rarely almost fibrous, and terminating in short ribbons. 
Commonly three to four feet but sometimes six feet in 
diameter, and sixty to a hundred feet high. Timber pale 
pink when fresh and of medium hardness and fissility. 
Juvenile leaves very thin, very glaucous when young, 
but drying nearly glabrous, paler on the underside, showing 
a profusion of oil-dots and distinct veins. Lanceolate to 
ovate-lanceolate, and cordate, amplexicaul, bluntly pointed 
or acute, up to 10 cm. long, by 4 cm. in greatest width. 
Mature leaves slightly glaucous, lanceolate, petiolate, 
somewhat falcate. Midrib prominent, (sometimes pinkish), 
the lateral veins, which are irregularly pinnate, prominent, 
the intramarginal vein distinctly removed from the edge. 
Common dimensions are 14 cm. long, 1°5-2 cm. broad, with 
a petiole of 2 cm. 
Buds usually glaucous, up to seven in the head, slightly 
urceolate, operculum pointed, about half the length of the 
calyx-tube, which gently tapers into a short pedicel, the 
umbel being supported by a slender peduncle of about °5 cm. 
Expanded flowers not seen. 
Fruits. Inthe half grown state glaucous, somewhat 
urceolate to nearly hemispherical, and with a well-defined 
raised rim. When ripe, nearly hemispherical, about °5 cm. 
in diameter, slightly domed; tips of the valves slightly 
exsert. 
It is the ‘“‘Flooded Gum of Camden,’’ No. 108 of the New 
South Wales timbers contributed by Sir William Macarthur 
to the Paris Exhibition of 1855 and No. 28 of those of the 
London Exhibition of 1862). 
Under 108, Sir William Macarthur notes in the Catalogue, 
** Flooded Gum of Camden, diameter 36 — 48 inches, 80 — 120 
feet high. A fine-looking tree, with elegant pendant foli- 
