No. 35* 
2oi 
Eucalyptus punctata, DC. 
A Grey Gum. 
(Natural Order MYRTACE^E.) 
Botanical description. —Genus, Eucalyptus. (See Part II, page 33.) 
Botanical description. —Species, E. punctata, 1)C. 
Branchlets .—Robust and very angular. 
Leaves. —Scattered, elongate or sickle-shaped lanceolar, of thin consistence, beneath slightly 
paler and there not shining; the lateral veins numerous, very subtle, and much spreading, 
the circumferential vein close to the edge; oil dots numerous, imperfectly transparent ; 
umbels axillary and solitary, or, at the summit of the branchlets paniculated ; their stalks 
broad and strongly compressed, bearing generally from three to ten flowers. 
Calyx-tube. —Almost semiovate or nearly hemispherical, merging gradually into an angular, 
rather thick, stalklet, of about the same or greater or lesser length. 
Operculum .—Semiovate conical, as long as the tube or somewhat longer. 
Stamens .—All fertile, inflexed before expansion ; anthers almost oblong, but upwards broader, 
opening with longitudinal parallel slits. 
Stigma .—Not or hardly broader than the style. 
Fruit.— Nearly semiovate, three or oftener four, rarely five-celled, not large nor angular, rim 
finally rather broadish, flat, or convex; valves short, deltoid, at last exserted or convergent 
from the rim. (Mueller, in “ Eucalyptographia. ”) 
Variety yrandiflora, Deane and Maiden ( Proc. Linn. Soc., N.S. W., 1901, 
p. 133). This is a large-flowered and large-fruited form. 
Leaves punctate. Buds all ovoid. Double operculum. Rim at junction of calyx and operculum 
very sharp. The calyx-tube usually angled. Fruits, 7 to 8 lines in diameter. Valves usually not much 
exserted. 
I have an intermediate form (from Wyee), with valves well exserted; shape 
hemispherical, or nearly so, to conoid. Rather hroad rim. Bark and timber not to 
be distinguished from that of normal punctata. This large-fruited form is well- 
marked, and well worthy of being a named variety. As in resinifera, so in punctata, 
there is no line of demarcation between the normal and grandijlora forms, the 
transition being gradual. 
Comparing this with the normal or small-fruited form, Mr. Augustus Rudder, 
a forester of considerable experience, writes in the Agricultural Gazette :— 
This is one of two trees with the same vernacular (Grey Gum). Tn general appearance, to the 
casual observer, the trees are much alike, but the leaves of this are rather broader, and its fruits and 
