1020 NOTES ON A NEW SPECIES OF EUCALYPTUS, 



NOTES ON A NEW SPECIES OF EUCALYPTUS 



(E. MAIDENI) FROM SOUTHERN NEW SOUTH WALES. 



By Baron von Mueller, K.C.M.G., M. & Ph.D., F.R.S., &c. 



(Plates xxvin. and xxix.). 



Finally tall; branchlets slender, quadrangular at the end; leaves 

 scattered, of rather thick consistence, copiously dotted, narrow- 

 elongate or sometimes broad-lanceolar, distinctly or somewhat 

 sickle-shaped ; the petioles from J to 1 inch in length, the lateral 

 veins spreading and slightly prominent underneath, the circum- 

 ferential vein distinct and rather remote from the edge of the leaf ; 

 young shoots quadrangular, their leaves broadly cordate with a 

 small pointed apex, opposite and of a whitish hue underneath, 

 petioles almost absent ; umbels axillary, on angular stalks about 

 \ inch long, dilated towards the top, bearing 2 to 9 flowers of rather 

 large size, stalklets none or exceedingly short; calyx-tube obconical, 

 angular, warty-glandular, especially at the base ; lid depressed 

 hemispherical, suddenly raised in the centre to a thick point, like 

 the calyx-tube warty-glandular ; stamens all fertile, inflexed before 

 expansion ; anthers oblong kidneyshaped ; stigma slightly broader 

 than the style, depressed ; ovulary 3- to 5-celled ; fruit \ inch in 

 thickness, nearly hemispherical, its rim broad, convex, at the edge 

 separated from the calyx-tube by an ample furrow ; seeds all 

 without any appendage, the sterile narrower and longer than the 

 fertile seeds. 



In rich soil only on steep mountain-slopes from the southern 

 boundary as far north as *the Braid wood and Nelligen districts 

 (W. Bauerlen). 



