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No. 214. 
Eucalyptus Baueriana Sehauer, 
variety CORlca Maiden. 
Fuzzy Box. 
(Family MYRTACE>E.) 
Botanical description. Genus, Eucalyptus. (See Part II, p. 33.) 
Botanical description. -Species, E. Baueriana Sehauer, variety conica Maiden, in 
Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W. xxvii, 216 (1902). E. conica, Deane and Maiden, ib. 
xxiv, 612 (1899). 
Following is the original description (as E. conica) : 
A box of medium size ; a pretty, graceful tree, with pendulous branches. 
Vernacular names." Fuzzy Box," " Bastard Box," " Yellow Box," " Grey Box " or " Woolly 
Butt," " Apple Box." 
Bark of the ordinary " box " character, but in districts where the two trees grow together, rougher 
than that of E. hemiphloia ; persistent in all cases, right on to the small branches. 
Timber reddish-yellow, and very tough when dry ; much redder than ordinary box (R. H. Cambage). 
[It is brown as compared with that of E. polyanthemos, or Bed Box.] 
Juvenile leaves. Pale green, not glaucous ; broadly ovate ; the intramarginal vein considerably 
distant from the margin, and, with the midrib, giving the leaf a triplinerved appearance. 
Mature leaves lanceolate, ultimately narrow-lanceolate, and, say, 4 inches long by half an inch 
broad; varying, however, in length and width, and some branchlets including very wide 
leaves ; the intramarginal vein is distinctly removed from the edge of the leaf, although this 
is of course less marked in the case of narrow leaves ; the venation is oblique, but few of these 
secondary veins are as prominent as the intramarginal vein. The foliage is drooping and 
has frequently long stalks. 
Buds clavate, the calyx-tube greatly exceeding the operculum in size; the operculum nearly 
hemispherical, with a small umbo ; the calyx-tube tapering gradually to the common point 
of attachment to the stalk, the buds being sessile. 
Flowert. This is a very floriferous species; the inflorescence is arranged in panicles of several 
inches, the individual umbels having a maximum of six or seven flowers. Stigma hardly 
dilated ; anthers small, opening in terminal pores, all fertile and inflected in the bud. 
Fruits narrow conical (hence the specific name), tapering to the point of attachment of the common 
stalk. Often not quite symmetrical, and somewhat pear-shaped. Greatest length, say 
8 inch by, say 3 \ inch broad. Thin rim; the valves, which are three or four and very small, 
are deeply sunk. Of a pale brown colour and shining. 
