748 NEW SPECIES OR FORM OF EUCALYPTUS, 



bark very hard and compact. But while the trunk and lower 

 branches have such bark, that of the upper branches and branch- 

 lets is smooth and greyish, so that the tree is really a half Vjark. 



Timber light brown in colour, fairly heavy, close, straight in 

 the grain, annual rings prominent in the young stage, planes 

 and dresses well, and should be useful for technical purposes; 

 gum-veins few. 



Locality. — Toongabbie, New 8outh Wales, at the rear of the 

 Public School, on the Wianamatta clay. 



Remarks. — As seen from the description, this form of Euca- 

 lypt, on a cortical classification, seems intermediate between the 

 smooth-barks and the stringy-barks. The timber has not the 

 texture of that of the stringy-barks, but more nearly resembles 

 that of E. viminalis in physical characters. The early buds 

 resemble those of E. obliqua, but there is no resemblance in the 

 mature stage. The mature leaves are generally markedly oblique. 

 The fruit resembles that of E. eugenioides, but it tapers more 

 into the pedicel, and is not so flat; nor are the fruits so clustered 

 on the peduncle. The seedling is intermediate between those of 

 E. eugenioides and E. Jloorei; and, in its hair}' seedling-leaves 

 and reniform cotyledons, approximates strongly to the string- 

 barks. The reniform anthers also place it in that category, but 

 the bark, timber, and oil, are quite distinct from those of this 

 class. As, so far, only a single tree is known, one is strongly 

 inclined to conclude that it is either a hybrid or a sport. Strong-^ 

 colour is lent to the hybrid theory by the fact of its possessing 

 so many of the characters of the stringj^-barks, especially in the 

 seedling-stage; yet differing from them in others in the mature 

 stage, as for instance in the bark, oil, and timber. Since the 

 only known tree has, unfortunately, lately been cut down, further 

 comparison is at present impossible. Now that a description 

 has been published, search may reveal further specimens, and 

 more definitely establish its status. The tree was a young one, 

 about 12-15 years old, and growing on land that had been mostly 

 cleared, but with a few well grown trees of E. hcemastom'f, E. 

 resinijh'a, and E. siderophloia in proximity. Other trees near l)y 



