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Eucalyptus melanopkloia F.v.M. 
Silver-leaved Ironbark. 
(Family MYRTACE^E.) 
Botanical description. Eucalyplus. (See Part II, p. 33). 
Botanical description. Species E. melanopldoia F.v.M., in Jouni. Linn. Soc. iii, 
93 (1859). 
A small tree with a blackish persistent deeply furrowed bark (F. Mueller), the foliage more or 
less glaucous or mealy-white. 
Leaves sessile, opposite, from cordate-ovate or orbicular to ovate-lanceolate, obtuse or acute. 
Peduncles short, terete or nearly so, 3 to 6-flowered, axillary or several in a short terminal 
corymb. 
Jlu'ln tapering into a pedicel shorter than the calyx -tube or almost sessile. 
Calyx-tube slightly angular, about 2 lines long or rather more, and as much in diameter. 
Operculum obtusely conical, shorter than the calyx-tube. 
Stamens 2 tD 3 lines long, inflected in the bud ; anthers very small and globular, but the cells 
parallel and distinct. 
Fruit pear-shaped or globular-truncate, 2 to nearly 3 lines diameter, more or less contracted 
at the orifice, the rim thin, the capsule nearly on a level with it, and the valves slightly 
protruding, or more sunk with the valves included. (B.Fl. iii, 220.) 
Botanical Name. Eucalyptus, already explained (See Part II, p. 34) ; 
tnelanophloia, from the Greek melas, melanos, black, and phloia, bark. 
Vernacular Names. This is an Ironbark, and in districts in which it is 
gregarious it is called Ironbark without any prefix. 
It is sometimes called " Broad-leaved Ironbark " for obvious reasons, but it 
is not to be confused with E. siderophloia, which has even broader leaves of a 
different shape and texture. (See Part XXXIX of the present work.) 
Because of the glaucous appearance of the foliage, this tree is perhaps even 
most frequently known as " Silver-leaved Ironbark." 
For the reason detailed under "Bark," as northern Queensland is approached, 
the tree is sometimes, but exceptionally, known as "Box." 
Aboriginal Names. Mr. E. Maher, of Collaroy, gave me the name 
" Ginghi " as the native name for this tree on the Macquarie River, New South 
Wales. I have received the name " Ghinghit " from the Dubbo district, but cannot 
understand the difference between the two words. Perhaps the Dubbo word was 
misspelt. 
