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, and terminating in a blunt, slightly curved, conical point. When the lid falls off, it discloses numerous stamina, which soon spread very wide. The style stands on four cross ribs in the centre of the flower, which crown the germen; it is club-shaped, compressed or angular; stigma simple; germen in the bottom of the calyx. We have not seen the fruit ripe. Every part of this plant, and indeed of every other Eucalyptus we have examined, is void of all pubescence. This is not so highly aromatic as some other species, though very perceptibly so when rubbed, and it is likewise astringent and acrid. Its resin is an inferior sort of red gum, of a brown hue. The size and strength of the tree, like that of the European Quercus Robur, seem particularly to justify the name robusta.

Lid conical, round, very smooth, thrice as long as the calyx. Umbels lateral, solitary.