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The Queensland Naturalist. 
April, 1925 
Distribution. — A native of Eastern Australia from, 
Southern New South AVales to Central Queensland. 
Botanical Name. — Eucalyptus (see under No. 1); 
micrantha, from the two Greek words^ mikros, small, and 
anthos, a flower, referrino* to the flowers being smaller 
than those of its near ally, E. haemastoma. 
Common Names. — Most commonly known as ‘‘Scinb- 
bly Gum,” in allusion to the scribble-like markings al- 
most always present on the trunk, sometimes almost 
covering it. It is also known as “AVhite Gum,” “Sugar 
Gum,” and “Cabbage Gum”; local names also given, 
however, to other very different trees. 
Timber. — “The timber is very subject to gum-veins, 
and hence is sawn only for cheap purposes. A favourite 
timber for fencing purposes, particularly rails.” (Jolly, 
in “Notes on the Principal Timbers of Queensland,” 
Forestry Bulletin, No. 2 — Department of Public Lands, 
Brisbane). The timber is a useful hardwood, but suffers 
in comparison with the better sorts. 
Botanical Reference. — E. micrantha De Candolle, in 
“Prodroraus Systematis Naturalis Regni Yegetabilis,” 
Vol. 3, p. 217 (1828). 
Note on the Botany of the Species. — E. micrantha 
was reduced by Beutham in the “Ploi’a Australiensis” 
to a variety of E. haemastoma; in this he was followed 
by Mueller, in the “Euealyptographia,” by Bailey in his 
“Queensland Flora,” and for a long time by Maiden in 
his “Critical Revision of the Genus Eucalyptus.” In a 
recent part (Yol. YII., pt. 9) of the last-mentioned 
monumental work, however, Maiden restores De Can- 
dolle’s species, and I have now followed. 
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