No. 183. 
Eucalyptus ochropliloia , F.v.M. 
Napunyah. 
(Family MYRTACEyE.) 
Botanical description. —Genus, Eucalyptus. (See Part II, p. 33.) 
Botanical description. —Species, E. ochropliloia, F.v.M., in Fragm. XI, 36 (1878). 
It may be described in the following words :— 
It has clean limbs, but at the base of the trunk it is very rough, scaly, peeling off, and very black. 
(Murphy). A Gum, sometimes with dark red bark on limbs and black on butt, or brownish 
yellow. 
Branches slightly angular, scantily leaved. 
Juvenile leaves lanceolate, narrower than the mature foliage. 
Mature leaves falcate or oblong-lanceolate, 4 to 6 inches long, often between two-thirds and an inch 
wide, shining green on both sides, irregularly pellucid dotted, with not much spreading veins 
and anastomosing veinlets, the marginal vein remote from the margin. 
Umbels axillary, solitary, or crowded-corymbose. 
Pedicels longer than the not-dilated peduncle, gradually merging into the rather long obconical 
slightly quadrangular calyx-tube. 
Flowers. —Operculum conical, acute, hardly half as long as the calyx-tube. Outer stamens 
anantherous ; anthers broad, widening to the base, opening in parallel slits; gland on the 
top; filament at base ; variable in size and shape. Stigma hardly thicker than the style. 
Fruits clavate-ovate, truncate, about half an inch long, 3- or rarely 4-celled, the mouth of the 
margin thin, much elongated beyond the valves. (Adapted from original description, with 
additions.) 
Botanical Name. — Eucalyptus, already explained (see Part II, p. 31); 
ochropliloia, from two Greek words, ochros, pale, and pliloia, bark, referring to the 
pale-coloured bark. 
Vernacular Names. —“Yellow Jacket.” This in allusion to the yellow 
cast of the bark, but the tree is not to be confused with better known “ Yellow 
Jackets” ( e.g ., E. melliodora). 
Aboriginal Names. —“Napunyah” is the common name, butj there are 
variants of this. It shares this name with E. Tkozetiana, and that species also has 
names variously spelt and pronounced. “Yappunyah” is one of these variants. 
“ Yipunyah ” is another spelling I have seen, while Mr. Dalton, of Wanaaring, 
gave me the unusual spelling of “ Kappundya.” What the actual meaning of 
the word is, I do not know. 
