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The Queensland Naturalist. 
April, 1925 
THE EUCALYPTS OR GUM TREES OF THE 
BRISBANE DISTRICT. 
By C. T. White^ F.L.S., Goveminent Botanist. 
III. 
(Continued from the ‘‘Queensland Naturalist/^ Vol IV 
p. 112.) 
3. — Eucalyptus maculata (Spotted Gum). 
Description. — A tree attaining* a large size, the trunk 
usually marked with bullet-like indentations, the outer 
dead bark shed in irregular patches, leaving a smooth 
and usually blotchy trunk. Coppice (“sucker-/ leaves 
peltate, somewhat variable in shape and size, mostly 
ovate and averaging about 5 inches long and 2 inches 
broad, on a leaf stalk or petiole of inch; the branches 
clothed With strigose hairs, in some cases almost amount- 
ing to prickles, hairs also abundant on the midribs and 
main nerves and veins on the under surface of the leaf. 
As the coppice shoot, or young ti’ee grows, the leaves 
assume more of the adult form, the branchlets become 
quite glabrous, and the leaves in this stage attain a very 
large size, in some eases up to 13 inches long and up to 
6 inches across, but usually considerably smaller. Or- 
dinary (or adult leaves) lanceolate, straight or more or 
less falcate, the upper part tapering to a long acute apex, 
petiole about } inch long, blade 4-7 inches long, 4-1 inch 
wide; midrib distinct; main lateral nerves oblique, close 
and numerous intramarginal vein very close to the edge, 
and not always very distinct. FloAvers in 2-3 floAvered 
umbels, the umbels arranged in ])anieles in the leaf- 
axils, the upper ones often forming a large terminal 
compound panicle. Calyx-tube at first narrowly, then 
broadly turbinate, when fully doA^eloped about 4 inch 
broad and 4 inch long (including the basal part, which 
gradually tapers into a pedicel). Opei*cula Iavo, an outer 
and an inner one resj^eetively, the outer one broadly 
hemispherical, turbinate and of a thick, leathery texture, 
inner one shining broadly hemispherical, scarcely or not 
at all turbinate, and of much thinner texture than the 
outer one. Stamens 4 inch or more long; anthers narrow- 
oblong, nearly one line long, with i^arallel cells appear- 
