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SOME NEW SOUTH WALES PLANTS ILLUSTRATED. 



By R. T. Baker, Assistant Curator, Technological Museum, 



Sydney. 



(Plate V.) 



No. V. Angophora subvelutina, F.v.M. 



" A tree attaining a considerable size, with a rough persistent 

 bark as in ^. intermedia, of vjhich F. v. Mueller notv thinks it 

 may he a variety. Foliage and young shoots glaucous or raimUely 

 pubescent, with often a few bristles on the flowering branches and 

 inflorescence. Leaves sessile or nearly so, ovate or ovate-lanceo- 

 late, mostly acute, all (excepting rarely the upper ones) cordate 

 at the base with rounded auricles as in A. cordifolia, 2 to 4 in. 

 long, the veins numerous, but not usually so much so nor so fine 

 as in ^. intermedia. Flowers small, in loose corymbs, precisely 

 as in A. intermedia. Fruiting calyxes 3 to 4 lines in diameter." 

 (B.Fl. iii. p. 184.) 



The object in studying this species was to see if additional 

 research would throw any further light on its relative position, — 

 whether the examination of complete material would add any- 

 thing in favour of its specific rank ; or if it might prove to be 

 only a variety of its congener A. intermedia, as surmised by 

 Baron von Mueller and mentioned en passant by Bentham. 



Of all the leaves examined, the shape and venation were in 

 every case quite different from A. intermedia. The inflorescence 

 seemed invariably pubescent, although Baron von Mueller's speci- 

 mens were minutely so, while that of A. intermedia was found in 

 the many specimens examined to be consistently glabrous. 



Besides the points noted above, A. subvelutina differs from A. 

 intermedia in having two forms of leaves — sessile cordate and 

 petiolate ovate-lanceolate — and both occurring on the same tree, a 

 characteristic feature not previously recorded, I believe. 



