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Buck. — Clavate, the calyx-tube greatly exceeding the operculum 

 in size; the operculum nearly hemispherical, with a small umbo; 

 the calyx-tube tapering gradually to the common point of attach- 

 ment to the stalk, the buds being sessile. 



Flowers. — This is a very floriferous species; the inflorescence is 

 arranged in panicles of several inches, the individual umbels having 

 a maximum of six or seven flowers. Stigma hardly dilated; 

 anthers small, opening in terminal -pores, all fertile and inflected 

 in the bud. 



Fruits. — Narrow conical (hence the specific name), tapering to 

 the point of attachment of the common stalk. Often not quite 

 symmetrical, and somewhat pear-shaped. Greatest length, say, 

 f inch by, say, JV inch broad. Thin rim; the valves, which are 

 three or four and very small, are deepl}' sunk. Of a pale brown 

 colour and shining. 



Range. — Found in much of the country west of the Dividing 

 Range and its spurs, forming, with E. hemiphloia and F. Behriana, 

 the ■' Box " of the western country. 



Resembles E. Stuartiana so much that on the Lachlan it is 

 called "Apple Box" (R.H.C.). 



The afiinity of E conica is undoubtedly closest to E. polyan- 

 thema, though the trees are, in our opinion, so distinct that we 

 cannot make one a variety of the other. At the same time it is 

 not a strong species. The principal differences between it and 

 E. jioly anthem a, may be indicated as follows — its more pendulous 

 habit, its less furrowed bark, which is often of a yellowish cast, 

 its paler timber, and its narrower and non-glaucous foliage. In 

 E. conica the umbels are separate in the axils of the leaves, or, 

 by suppression of the terminal one, become an elongated panicle. 

 The operculum is not nearly as long as the calyx-tube, while the 

 anthers are all fertile. As regards the fruits, the fruit of E. 

 conica is more narrow or slender conical and the rim is more 

 depressed. The rim of the fruit does not appear to be indented 

 in E. conica, while it is of common occurrence in E. pol ijanthema. 



