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Eucalyptus acaciuides , A. Cunn, 
Green Mallee. 
(Family MYRTACEAEh) 
Botanical description. —Genus, Eucalyptus. (See Part II, p. 33.) 
Botanical description. —Species, E. acacioides, A. Cunn., herb. First referred 
to by Allan Cunningham in his Journal (Oxley’s Expedition), on the Lachlan 
River under date 23rd May, 1817. It is in the Hook(Aian Herbarium, 1835, now 
at Kew, in the herbarium of the University of Cambridge, and was from that, 
and other herbaria, distributed under Cunningham’s name. See my “ Critical 
Revision of the genus Eucalyptus,” ii, 45. 
It may be described in the following words :— 
A tall spindly shrub or slender small tree attaining a height of 20 to 30 feet. 
Has hard, thin, blackish, scaly bark, for the lower part of the trunk, smooth above. 
Has a considerable portion of pale-coloured sap-wood, the mature wood being of a deep reddish- 
brown. 
Juvenile leaves linear-lanceolate or almost linear, the venation, except the midrib, not observable, 
the young brancldets angular. 
Mature leaves , narrow lanceolate with short petioles, commonly about 3^ inches long and ^ inch 
or a little more broad in the type specimens, but a width of | inch is common in specimens 
since collected. Dull green and of a uniform colour on both sides. Feather-veined, but 
the lateral veins not conspicuous. 
Floivers .—Opercula conoid, with the calyx-tube tapering gradually into a short pedicel. Flowers 
usually 5 to 10 in the umbel, which has a well-defined peduncle of at least a quarter of an 
inch in length. 
Anthers small, globular, opening with pores near the top, filaments at the base, and with a small 
gland near the top. 
Fruits nearly globular in shape, 4- k5 mm. in diameter, truncate at the orifice, which is about 
3 mm. in diameter; tips of valves well insert. 
Vernacular Names. —“ Green Mallee ” is the name I have usually heard 
it known by, as the foliage is usually of a brighter green than that of other trees 
and shrubs associated with it. 
A large specimen has also been called, in my hearing, “ Mallee Box,” this 
being the name by which comparatively large trees growing amongst Mallee are 
sometimes known, but it does not appear to be applied to only one species. 
