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No. 56. 
Eucalyptus stellulata, Sieb. 
The Black Sally. 
(Natural Order MYRTACE^E.) 
Botanical Description. —Genus, Eucalyptus. (See p. 33, Part II.) 
Botanical Description. —Species, E. stellulata, Siel). in DC. Prod,, iii, 217. 
A small tree, the furrowed bark coming off at length in layers (F. Mueller), rugose below, very 
smooth above; the smooth portion often of a lead or green colour. 
Leaves elliptical, lanceolate, or the lower ones ovate, rarely much above Sin. long, usually straight 
or nearly so, acuminate and much narrowed towards the base, the veins very oblique and 
anastomosing, a few of the principal ones prominent, starting from near the base, and almost 
parallel to the midrib as in E. coriacea. 
Flowers very small and numerous, nearly sessile, on very short lateral or axillary peduncles, the 
buds very narrow. 
Calyx-tube narrow-turbinate, about II lines long. 
Operculum conical, about as long as the calyx-tube. 
Stamens not above 2 lines long, all perfect, inflected in the bud ; anthers small, reniform, the cells 
divergent and confluent at the apex. 
Ovary flat-topped. 
Fruit globular-truncate or pear-shaped, rarely exceeding 2 lines in diameter, often contracted 
at the orifice, the rim flat or slightly concave, the capsule slightly or scarcely sunk.— 
(B.F1., iii, 200.) 
Variety.— 
There is one with small narrow leaves, named angustifolia by Bentham. It occurs in the highest 
parts of the Blue Mountains, and is a tall shrub or quite small tree as far as known. 
Botanical Name. — Eucalyptus, already explained, Part II, p. 34; stellulata, 
from the Latin stellula, a little star (diminutive of stella). The name is rather 
happy, and refers to the disposition of the buds, which remind one of a little star or 
rosette. 
Vernacular Names. —It is often called “ Sally,” alone or with some 
qualifying adjective, the word being a corruption of Sallow or Willow, a species of 
