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Eucalyptus Behriana, F.v.M. 
The Broad-Leaf Mallee. 
(Family MYRTACE^E.) 
Botanical description. —Genus, Eunalyptus. (See Part II, p. 33.) 
Botanical description. —Species, E. Behriana, E.v.M., in Trans. Viet. Inst, i, 31 
(1855). 
Following is the original description :— 
Fruticose ; leaves alternate, coriaceous, somewhat shining, lanceolate or ovate, acute, slightly 
oblique, thinly veined, dotted ; umbels pedunculate, panicled, few-tlowered ; flowers small, nearly sessile ; 
lid hemispherical, blunt or minutely apiculate ; tube of the calyx obconical, bell-shaped, nearly twice as 
long as the lid ; fruit half-ovate, sessile, not contracted at the top, valves of the capsule enclosed ; seeds 
brown, streaked. 
In arid plains and on stony bare hills near the Avoca, Murray, and Gawler Rivers, and in Bacchus 
Marsh. 
Bentliam more fully described the species in the following words:— 
E. Behriana, F. Muell. ; Miq. in Ned. Kruidk. Arch., iv., 139. A tall shrub or small tree (F. 
Mueller). 
Leaves from ovate to ovate-lanceolate, rarely lanceolate, mostly acute or acuminate, rarely above 
3 inches long, thick and smooth, the fine very oblique veins scarcely conspicuous, the intra- 
marginal one at some distance from the edge. 
Peduncles short, terete or slightly angular, with few rather small sessile flowers, the umbels 
generally several together forming short oblong or thyrsoid panicles terminal or in the upper 
axils or several of these together in a compound terminal panicle. 
Buds obovoid. 
Calyx not 2 lines long, more or less attenuate at the base. 
Opercidum short, hemispherical, obtuse or scarcely umbonate, the outer membranous one often 
still persistent in the advanced bud. 
Stamens all perfect, not 2 lines long, anther-cells small, globular, opening in circular pores, rarely 
at length confluent. 
Ovary flat-topped. 
Fruit obovoid-globular, truncate, about 2 lines diameter, the rim flat, the capsule slightly sunk. 
Victoria. Bacchus Marsh, Avoca River, and Pine Forest, F. Mueller. (B.F1. iii, 214.) 
Bentliam then gives a variety purpurascens, F.v.M., from Lake Wangaroo 
(Wangary), via Fort Lincoln, S.A., but in my Critical Revision, Part x, p. 337, I 
have shown that this is a form of E. oclorata and not of E. Behriana, and in the 
same place have dealt with the affinities of this interesting and not very well-known 
species. 
