E ucalyptus.] 
LI. MYRTACEiE. 
017 
diameter. Operculum membranous, much shorter than the calyx, broad, Hat, 
very obtuse or slightly umbonate. Stamens inflected in the bud, the outer ones 
about 3 lines long, anantherous or with small abortive anthers, the inner ones 
much shorter and perfect ; anthers small with diverging at length confluent cells. 
Ovary flat-topped. Fruit obovoid-oblong, contracted at the orifice, tapering at 
^he base, about 3 lines long and scarcely 2 lines diameter, the rim narrow, the 
c apsule sunk, 3 to 4-celled. Seeds angular. 
Hab.: Brisbane River, F. v. Mueller ; Sandy-mount Range, towards Brisbane, Leichhardt; 
Cleveland Bay, W. Hill (F. v. M.) 
Wood of a grey colour, close-grained, very tough and durable ; used for ship and house 
building purposes, also by the wheelwright for naves, felloes, and spokes. — Bailey's Cat. Ql. 
Woods No. 182. 
Yield of oil from fresh foliage, 18foz. per cwt. — Staiger. 
14. E. pruinosa (frosty foliage), Schau. in. Walp. Rep. ii. 926 ; Bentli. FI. 
Austr. iii. 213; F. v. M. Fucalypt. Dec. 8. “ Kullingal,” Cloncurry, Palmer. 
A tree with a persistent whitish-grey rough and fissured bark ( F. c. Mueller t , the 
foliage often glaucous or mealy-white. Leaves sessile, opposite or nearly so, very 
rigid, orbicular-cordate, ovate or oblong, obtuse or rarely almost acute, mostly 2 
to 4in. long. Umbels 3 to 6-flowered, on short peduncles in a terminal corymb 
or rarely in the upper axils. Pedicels terete, nearly or quite as long as the calyx- 
tube. Calyx-tube 2 to 3 lines diameter, not angled, more or less tapering into the 
pedicel. Operculum hemispherical or shortly conical, more or less acuminate, 
rarely as long as the calyx. Stamens 2 to nearly 3 lines long, inflected in the 
bud ; anthers very small and globular, with distinct parallel cells, opening in very 
short slits or circular pores. Ovary slightly convex in the centre. Fruit from 
ovoid-truncate to almost cylindrical, 3 to 5 lines diameter, scarcely or not at all 
contracted at the orifice, the rim narrow, the capsule slightly sunk, the valves 4, 
rarely 3 or 5, short, sometimes protruding. Testa of seeds netted, mostly broad 
and short. — F. v. M. Fragm. iii. 132; E. spodophylla , F. v. M. Fragm. ii. 71. 
Hab.: Islands of the Gulf of Carpentaria, R. Brown, Henne ; Ravenswood, Rev. J. E. 
Tenison-Woods. 
Like many other species, this varies with the young branches acutely 4-angled, almost winged, 
or even on the same specimen quite terete, and very much in the size of the flowers and the 
fruit. — Bentli. 
The inside bark is stripped, wound round the chest and body very tightly, and damped with 
water, for pains, rheumatism, &c., the sufferer sitting down in water at the same time. — Palmer. 
15. E. polyanthemos (flowers numerous), Schau. in Walp. Rep. ii. 924 ; 
Bentli. FI. Austr. iii. 213 ; F. v. M. Fucalypt. Dec. 3. A tree sometimes small, 
sometimes attaining 250ft. (F. v. Mueller, in Victoria), with an ash-grey 
persistent rough and slightly furrowed grey bark, unless in the upper ramifications 
{F. v. Mueller). Leaves scattered, on rather long petioles, not glossy, broadly 
ovate-orbicular or rhomboidal, obtuse or rarely shortly acuminate, mostly under 
3in. long, passing in older trees into ovate-lanceolate obtuse and 3in. long or 
more, rather rigid with fine diverging anastomosing veins, the intramarginal ones 
distant from the edge ; oil-dots copious. Umbels of 3 to 6 small flowers, shortly 
pedunculate and usually several together in short oblong or corymbose panicles 
in the upper axils or at the ends of the branches. Pedicels rarely longer than the 
calyx-tube and sometimes very short. Calyx-tube truncate-ovate, twice or three 
times as long and broader than the depressed cr pyramidal-hemispherical faintly 
pointed operculum. Stamens much indexed in the bud, 1 to 2 lines long, the 
outer ones anantherous ; anthers small, with globular distinct cells, opening in 
