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ON TWO NEW SPECIES OF EUCALYPTUS. 



By R. T. Baker, F.L.S., Curator, Technological Museum, 



Sydney. 



(Plates x.-xl) 



Eucalyptus l.evopinea, sp.nov. 



" Silver-Top Stringybark." 



A very tall tree in favourable situations. Bark fibrous but 

 brittle, a feature that distinguishes it from that of " Red Stringy- 

 bark," E. macrorhyncha, F.v.M., and " White Stringybark," £. 

 eugenioides, Sieb. ; ultimate branches smooth. Young leaves 

 alternate or scarcely opposite, broad at the base but not cordate, 

 acuminate, about 3 inches long, the intramarginal vein removed 

 from the edge, the lateral ones very distinct on the under side, 

 scarcely showing on the upper surface. Mature leaves varying 

 in size and shape, mostly very oblique, of a dark green colour and 

 shining on both sides, lanceolate, falcate, acuminate, the intra- 

 marginal vein removed from the edge, lateral veins fairly distinct. 

 Petiole varying from | to 1 inch. Umbels axillary bearing about 

 5 to 7 flowers; stalk flattened, under an inch long, stalklet varying 

 from 3 to 8 inches long, lid hemispherical, shortly acuminate, calyx 

 not angular. Stamens all fertile, inflexed in the bud. Anthers 

 divergent from the connective which surmounts them and is very 

 prominent, opening by longitudinal slits. Roof of ovary flat and 

 free from the placenta. 



Fruits hemisjjherical, petiolate; the rim very variable, at first 

 thick and flat or truncate, and then as it matures gradually 

 becoming exserted and eventually quite domed, when it is not 

 easy to distinguish it from E. macrorhyncha, F.v.M. 



Timber. -A very hard, close-grained, interlocked, joale brown 

 coloured timber, ditficult to distinguish from E. jnlularis 



