54 ` J. H. Maiden et E Betche. 
character. Buds. — Arrangement paniculate, the umbels usually 3 to 
6 in number, the peduncles rather long, the pedicels short and the 
calyx-tube tapering gradually into the pedicel; the operculum conoid. 
When fresh the buds clavate; the opereulum dries to a point. Flowers 
small; anthers small, opening in terminal pores, like E. polyanthemos and 
E. melliodora. Fruits small, conoid to subcylindrical, rim thin and the 
indentations and fissures (common in E polyanthemos) absent or rare, 
Valves sessile and 5 in number in the specimens seen. Bark. — „Per-. 
sistent and like that on the trunk of Grey Box, E. hemiphloia (A. Rudder).* 
The rough bark resembles that of ,Brush Box (Tristania conferta), but is 
slightly darker in colour, and extends up to the small branches, further 
than that of White Box (E. hemiphloia)* J. Hardiman). Timber. — 
Wood dark red. Timber durable, of a red colour (A. Rudder). The 
timber is hard and durable underground. It is used for sleepers and 
fencing posts (J. Hardiman). Sap wood white, rest of wood red. I 
cannot perceive any difference between its wood and that of E poly- 
anthemos. 
Hab. — Cundletown, near Taree (A. Rudden, This tree is by no 
means plentiful, but oceurs in all the forests adjacent to the coast, es- 
pecially in the Counties of Gloucester and Macquarie. The best I have 
seen are in the parish of Bohnock, a few miles, from Taree. It appears 
to favour stony ridges (J. Hardiman). 
The principal differences are indicated as follows: — 
E. Rudderi. E. polyanthemos. 
Trunk with fibrous bark somewhat Trunk with flaky bark (like E, 
like the ordinary Grey Box LE." tereticornis) or nearly smooth like 
hemiphloia). a Gum. 
Juvenile foliage lanceolar. Juvenile foliage broader, even tend- 
Mature foliage thinner and more ing to orbicular. 
uniformily lanceolar. 
XVI. Species novae in Horto Botanico Sydneyano (l). 
a. J. H. Maiden et E. Betche descriptae. ` 
(Ex: Proc. Linn. Soc. N. South Wales, XXIX [1904], pp. 734—750.) 
l. Boronia ledifolia J. Gay var. repanda (F. v. Müller in herb.) Maiden 
et Betche, Le p. 735. 
This well-marked variety is distinguished from the typical simple- 
leaved form by the leaves having a slightly undulate recurved margin, 
much similar to that in Eriostemon difformis or E. hispidulus, only less 
repand and tubereulate than in the former and more so than in the 
latter. It is an erect shrub about two feet high. Leaves 3 to 4 lines 
long, always simple in the specimens seen, not white underneath, but 
sparingly stellatehairy. Flowers like the type. Our specimens from 
