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8. &> capitellata (flowers in small heads), Sm. Bot. Xu c. Hull. 42, and in 
Trans. Linn. Soc. iii. 285 ; Benth. FI. Austr. iii. 206 ; F. M. Eucalypt. Dec. 3. 
A moderate-sized or large tree (200ft. high, F. r. M.), with a dark-grey furrowed 
fibrous bark (/•'. r. M.) Leaves from ovate-lanceolate to long-lanceolate, generally 
very oblique and falcate, and about 3 to 6in. long, very thick and shining, with 
oblique venation. Peduncles axillary or lateral, usually thick and angular, with 
about 5 to 10 sessile flowers. Buds oblong- clavate or almost ovoid. Calyx-tube 
turbinate, usually about 3 lines diameter, and rather more in length. Operculum 
thick, very obtuse, and about as long as the calyx-tube, or rather longer and 
obtusely conical. Stamens 2 to 3 lines long, all perfect ; anthers with divergent 
cells, confluent at the apex. Ovary flat-topped. Fruit depressed-globose, 4 to 5 
lines diameter, the broad rim convex and often very prominent, the valves of the 
capsule usually protruding beyond it. — DC. Prod. iii. 218 ; E. piperita, Sm. in 
White’s Voy. 226, with a fig. of leaves and fruit, but not the one described in 
Trans. Linn. Soc.; E. piperita, Reichb. Ic. et Descr. PI. t. 42 (from the figure 
and description). 
Hab.: A growing branchlet without fruit, received from Rockingham Bay. Baron Mueller 
considered might belong to this species. 
The young seedlings, Mueller says, have glandular hairs in tufts, and the leaves at first 
opposite. 
4. E. eugenioides (resembing a Eugenia), Sieb. PI. Exs. n. 479 ; Benth. El. 
Austr. iii. 208 ; F. r. M. Eucalypt. Dec. 10. White Stringybark. Stringybark 
of Nerang. A tree, sometimes tall, with a fibrous persistent bark. Leaves 
lanceolate, falcate, or at times ovate, veins rather distant, and the intramarginal 
one distant from the edge ; oil-dots copious. Peduncles axillary or lateral, 
bearing an umbel of from 4 to 20 flowers, or occasionally forming a panicle, 
somewhat angular. Operculum hemispherical or conical. Stamens all fertile ; 
anthers reniform to cordate, opening by divergent slits. Stigma not broader than 
the summit of the style. Fruit rather small, truncate-globose, 3 to 4 or rarely 
5-celled. 
Hab : Common in southern localities ; Herberton. 
The young adventitious shoots from the trunk and young plants are rough with glandular hairs ; 
valves not at all or only slightly exserted ; seeds angular. 
In Mueller’s Eucalyptographia two plates of this species are given, the one in Dec. 10 a tall 
erect tree, plentiful about Nerang Creek ; the other, in Dec. 3 under the name of K. piperita, Sm., 
represents the form met with near Brisbane, and has larger leaves and fruit. 
Gum contains 65% of tannin. — Lauterer. 
Wood of a brownish or pinkish colour, hard and tough ; used for house-building, fencing-rails, 
Ac. — Bailey's Cat. Ql. Woods No. 177a. 
5. E. piperita (Peppermint-scented) Sm. in Trans. Linn. Soc. iii. 286 (partly); 
Benth. FI. Austr. iii. 207 ; F. r. M. Eucalypt. Dec. 3. A tree attaining a considerable 
height, with a persistent fibrous bark at least on the trunk. Leaves from ovate- 
lanceolate and very oblique to lanceolate and nearly straight, rarely above lin. 
long, rather thick and rigid, the veins very oblique. Peduncles axillary 
or lateral, usually slightly angular, bearing each about 6 to 12 flowers on 
short thick pedicels. Buds ovoid, acuminate, very narrow when young. Calyx- 
tube about 2 lines long and almost as much diameter. Operculum conical or 
acuminate, rarely very obtuse, about as long as the calyx-tube. Stamens all 
perfect, about 2 lines long; anther cells diverging or divaricate, usually confluent 
at the apex. Ovary flat-topped. Fruit obovoid-globular, 2 to 3 lines diameter, 
always contracted at the orifice, the rim concave or rarely nearly flat, the capsule 
sunk, the very small valves not at all or scarcely protruding.-^— E. acenmla, Sieb. 
in DC. Prod. iii. 217 ; F. v. M. Fragm. ii. 64. 
Hab.: There is some doubt as to whether the normal form of this species has been met with 
in Queensland. Some years ago, however, I gathered a specimen off a tree at Highfields, which 
Baron Mueller at the time considered the normal form, and now I have none of the specimens to 
refer to, 
