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No. 218. 
Eucalyptus polyantkemos Sehauer. 
The Red Box. 
(Family MYRTACE^E.) 
Botanical description. Genus, Eucalyptus. (See Part II, p. 33.) 
Botanical description. Species, E. polyanthemos Sclmuer, iu Walpers' Reper* 
torium Uotanices Systemalicce, Toinus ii, p. 924, Suppl. i (1813). 
Arborea glauco-virens : foil, coriaccis ovatis subito in petioluni contraotis obtusis apiculatis, margine 
Crasso subrevoluto cinctis impunctatis, utrinq. opacijij paniculis axillarib, terminalibq., uinbellis 3-5 floris, 
pediccllis brevib. cupulae clavato-turbinatae coritinuis ; operculo brevissime conico acutiusculo vertici 
cupulae exangulatae imposito, Foliorum lamina 2 poll, circiter kmga, 2 poll, lata, petiolus 8 lin. longus, 
Sores cum pedicello et operculo 3 lin. lougi, operculum resinoso-punctatuui, stamina brevissima. In 
Novie Cambria; australis interioribus septentriones versus ab urbe Bathurst. A. Cunn., Herb. No. 136, 
1822. 
I have seen the type ; it is referred to below. I would invite attention to 
Sehauer' s spelling of his specific name. 
The original description may be translated in the following words : 
A tree, glaucous-green. 
Leaves coriaceous, ovate, narrowed sharply into the petiole, obtuse, apiculate, the margin thick, 
sub-revolute, without oil-dots, opaque on both sides ; jtaniclei axillary and terminal ; umbels 
3-5 flowered, the short jtedicels close to the clavatc-turbinate calyx tube. Operculum very 
shortly conical, somewhat pointed, with a calyx tuba which has no angles. Leaves about 
2 inches long and 2 J inches broad ; petiole 8 lines long, flowers with the pedicel and operculum 
3 lines long, operculum with oil (resin) dots ; stamens very short. In the interior of New- 
South Wales, Australia, towards the north of the town of Bathurst. A. Cunn., Herb. 
No. 136, 1822. 
It is described in English in B.Fl. iii, 214, but the synonyms given 
(E. populifolia Hook., and E. populnea F.v.M.) must be excluded. See Part X 
of my " Critical Revision of the genus Eucalyptus," pages 340 and 843, and also 
some notes under habitat below page 249. 
Mueller figures the species in " Eucalyptographia " with some slight confusion 
with E. Baueriana Sehauer. 
It has a great tendency to be glaucous. I have seen forms varying a good 
deal in the roughness of their bark but similar in being glaucous all over, as if 
dusted liberally with flour. Incidentally it may be pointed out that the original 
description does not indicate a tree with a " Box-like bark." 
