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ON TWO UNRECORDED MYRTACEOUS PLANTS 

 FROM NEW SOUTH WALES. 



By R. T. Baker, F.L.S. 



(Plates Ixiii.-lxiv.) 



Eucalyptus Laskroni, sp.nov. 



A small tree under 40 feet high, and about 1 foot in diameter, 

 with a fibrous but hard stringy bark, in the general acceptation 

 of the latter term. 



Abnormal leaves ovate, lanceolate, slightly falcate in some 

 instances, petiolate, attenuate, varying in size up to 5 inches long, 

 and up to 2 inches broad. Normal leaves lanceolate, alternate, 

 subcoriaceous, average leaves under 4 inches long, and 1 inch 

 wide, occasionally shining. Venation distinctly marked, the 

 basal lateral veins sometimes running the whole length of the 

 leaf, and well removed from the edge; the other lateral veins not 

 so oblique, more transverse. 



Buds in clusters, on axillary peduncles about I inch long. 

 Operculum sharply conical. 



Fruits hemispherical, capitular, rim domed, valves scarcely or 

 not exserted, ^ inch in diameter, pedicel varying in length up to 

 2 lines long. 



Arbuscula usque ad 35' alta. Cortex fibrosus, tam in ramis 

 quam in trunco persistens, viridis, et hinc " Bastard Stringy- 

 bark." Folia 3-5" longa, fere 1-2" lata, lanceolata, ovata, alter- 

 nata, subcoriacea, concoloria ; venis patentibus, peripherica a 

 margine remota, venulis obliquatis. Pedunculi I" longi, axillares, 

 solitarii, 10-15-flori. Fructus I" longi, pilulares; margine convexo, 

 valvis non exsertis. 



Jiemarks.— This tree, so far, is known only from the Black 

 Mountain district, where Mr. Laseron obtained material in July, 

 1907. He states in his field-notes that it is regarded locally as a 



