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Eucalyptus oleosa F.v.M. 
Red Maliee. 
fFamily MYRTACEyE.) 
Botanical description, Gk'nus, Eucalyptus. (See Part II, p. 33.) 
Botanical description. Species, E, oleosa F.v.M,, in Miguel's paper in Ned. Kruidk, 
Arch, iv, 128 (1856). 
The above description is not quite satisfactory, since it refers to mixed material. 
The following is by Bentham : 
A ahrub or small tree, the bark of the trunk rough and persistent, that of the branches smoot i. 
(F. Mueller.) 
Leaves mostly lanceolate, obtuse or acuminate, under 4 inches long, thick and smooth, the oblique 
and rather numerous veins scarcely conspicuous. 
Peduncles axillary or lateral, terete or slightly angular, each with about 4 to 8 more or less 
pedicellate flowers. 
Calyx-tube obovoid, more or less contracted at the base, and sometimes at the top, 2 to 2J inches 
long. 
Operculum obtusely conical or shortly acuminate, usually exceeding the calyx-tube, and 
sometimes much longer and not very thick. 
Stamens 2 to 3 lines long, inflected in the bud, but without the acute angle of E- uncinala; anth":s 
small, ovate, with parallel distinct cells. 
Ovary short, convex or conical in the centre. 
Fruit ovoid or globose, truncate, contracted at the orifice, about 3 lines long, the run flat or 
concave, the capsule sunk, but the slender points of the valves formed by the split base of 
the style often protruding. (B.F1. iii, 248.) 
It is figured and described by Mueller in the " Eucalyptographia." 
Varieties. There are two fairly well marked varieties : 
1. Var. longicornis F.v.M. 
2. Var. glama Maiden. 
Neither of them occurs in New South Wales so far as we know at present. Var, 
Jongicornis is only known from Western Australia, and var. glauca chiefly occurs in 
that State, but it extends into South Australia, and may yet be found in western 
South Wales. 
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