Eucalyptus.] 
LI. MYRTACEiE. 
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Hab.: Bay of Inlets, Banks and Solander ; Broadsound, Shoalwater, and Keppel Bay, B. 
Brown ; Percy Island, Brisbane River, Moreton Bay, A. Cunningham ; Port Denison, Fitzalan, 
Dallachy ; Rockingham Bay (“Red Gum” and “Blue Gum”), Dallachy. 
Wood of a red colour, hence sometimes called Red Gum. Generally known as Blue Gum, 
from at times having a bluish bark. Grain close ; a tough and durable wood, used in house- 
building and for many other purposes. — Bailey’s Cat. Ql. Woods. No. 193. 
Gum contains 62% of tannin. — Lauterer. 
Yield of oil from dry foliage, 28oz. per cwt. — T. F. Bailey. 
Var. brachycorys. Operculum more obtuse, 3 to 4 lines long. — A few localities in south 
Queensland. To this also probably belong the Mitchell River specimens, in which, however, the 
buds are not full grown. 
The common form with a long operculum, when in very young bud, requires some caution in 
distinguishing it from the rostrate varieties of K. siderophloia and K. resinifera. The venation 
of the leaf is then the best guide. — Benth. 
40. E. platyphylla (broad-leaved), F. v. M. in Journ. Linn. Soc. iii. 93 ; 
Benth. FI. Austr. iii. 242. Broad-leaved Poplar Gum. “ Wongoola,” 
Mackay. Nugent. A handsome tree, with a light-green foliage- and smooth 
white deciduous bark. Leaves deciduous, ovate or rhomboid, acuminate 
or obtuse, the larger ones sometimes 8 to lOin. long and broad and 
almost cordate, but mostly much smaller and sometimes passing into ovate- 
lanceolate, rather rigid, the veins prominent, diverging, and anastomosing. 
Peduncles axillary or lateral, very short and rather thick, each with 3 to 6 or 
rarely more flowers on short thick angular pedicels. Calyx-tube turbinate or 
nearly hemispherical, about 3 lines diameter, the margin prominent in the bud 
after the outer operculum has fallen. Operculum not thick, hemispherical, 
shorter than the calyx-tube. Stamens 3 to 4 lines long, all perfect, inflected in 
the bud ; anthers oblong, with parallel distinct cells. Ovary flat-topped. Fruit 
obconical, 4 to 5 lines diameter, not contracted at the orifice, the rim thick, 
convex and prominent, the capsule nearly on a level with it, and the valves 
shortly protruding. 
Hab.: Islands of the Gulf of Carpentaria, R. Brown; Shoalwater Bay, R. Brown; fertile 
pastures on the Burdekin, F. v. Mueller; Percy Island, A. Cunningham ; Endeavour River, W. 
Hill; common about Rockhampton, Dallachy ; Broadsound, Fitzroy ; Bowen River, Bowman. 
41. E. alba (white), Reinw. in Blurne, Bijdr. 1101 ; Benth. FI. Austr. iii. 
243 ; F. r. M. Fucalypt. Dec. 4. A tall tree with a pale ash-coloured rough 
persistent bark (F. r. Mueller), the foliage of a pale glaucous hue. Leaves from 
ovate-oblong and 2 to 3in. long, to ovate-lanceolate or broadly lanceolate, obtuse 
or scarcely acuminate and 5 to Bin. long, with diverging veins and very much 
reticulate, the intramarginal vein very near the edge. Peduncles axillary, terete 
or nearly so, short, with few pedicellate flowers, not seen expanded. Buds small, 
ovoid, the operculum obtusely conical, as long as the calyx-tube. Fruit turbinate 
or obconical, about 3 lines diameter, the rim somewhat convex and rather broad, 
the capsule slightly depressed, the valves exserted. — Dene. Herb. Tim. Descr. 
126 ; FI. tectifica, F. v. M. in Journ. Linn. Soc. iii. 92. 
Hab.: Recorded for Queensland by F. v. Mueller ; Bandin’ s Expedition (Herb. R. Brown, 
from Herb. Mus. Par. marked “Cote occidentale,” but as in other plants from the same 
expedition probably in error) ; grassy valleys, Macarthur River, Gulf of Carpentaria. The 
Timor specimens from the Herb. Mus. Par. in Herb. R. Brown are in the same state of 
fruit only as Baudin’s Australian one, so also is a Timor specimen of Zippelius’s, communicated 
by Miquel to the Hookerian Herbarium. The E. moluccana, Roxb. FI. Ind. ii. 498, referred here 
by Miquel, FI. Ind. Bat. i. part i. 398, must, from Roxburgh’s short description, be very different. 
No specimens of it have been transmitted, and the tree is probably lost from the Calcutta 
Gardens. That was probably the best evidence as yet obtained of the genus existing in the 
Indian Archipelago beyond Timor, for E. deglupta is described by Blume, and E. multiflora by 
A. Gray, from specimens without flowers or fruit, and the others are only taken up from 
Rumphius’s very incomplete descriptions and figures of the trunk and foliage, also without 
flowers or fruit, —Bevtli, 
