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Eucalyptus paniculata, Sm. 
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White or Grey Ironbark. - - - -- 
(Natural Order MYRTACEyE.) 
Botanical description. —Genus, Eucalyptus. See p. 33, part ii. 
Botanical description. —Species, paniculata, Sm. Following is the original 
description :—- 
Operculo hemispliaerico submutico, calyce angulosa, umbellis subpaniculatis terminalibus. This 
differs from the last in its angular calyx and less pointed operculum, as well as being smaller 
in all its parts. The umbels do not form so considerable a compound cluster of corymbs, 
but are collected about the top of the branches into a small panicle, the lowermost of them 
being axillary. 
My specimens were gathered at Port Jackson by Mr. David Burton, and I received them from 
Sir Joseph Banks’ Herbarium. 
Of all these twelve species of Eucalyptus, I am not certain of any more being in the gardens than 
the corymbosa, obliqua, and piperita. The latter is very common and may be known by its 
smell, resembling that of peppermint. There are, however, several New Holland shrubs in 
the collections about London, which I suspect belong to the same genus ; but having never 
seen their fructification I cannot ascertain them.—(Smith, in Trans. Linn. Soc. iii, 287, 
1797.) 
A full botanical description will be found in Bentham’s Flora Australiensis , 
and also in Mueller’s Eucalyptographia. 
Botanical Name. — Eucalyptus, already explained, part ii, p. 34; paniculata, 
Latin, the inflorescence being paniculate. 
Vernacular Name. —This is usually called “ White Ironbark,” by reason of 
the pale colour of its timber in comparison with others. For a similar reason it is 
often called “ She Ironbark.” The term “She” in this connection does not imply 
inferiority of strength (as the term “ She ” does, as a rule in Australia, as applied to 
timbers), since this is the strongest timber of the ironbarks. It is also called “ Grey 
Ironbark.” On the South Coast I have known it to be called “ Red Ironbark,” 
because of its pale red colour. The fact is that Eucalypts vary in the colour of 
their timber just as they do in every other character. Variation is a law of 
nature, applying impartially to timber, fruits, oils—everything. It would conduce 
to a sounder knowledge of these protean trees if their marvellous variation could 
ever be borne in mind. 
