BY .T. H. MAIDEN. 775 



Juvenile leaves nearly orbicular or oblong, cordate at the base 

 and stem-clasping, strictly opposite, gradually becoming broadly 

 lanceolate and finally lanceolate; texture thickish, glabrous, 

 slightly paler underneath. The midrib prominent, the main 

 lateral veins also conspicuous and making approximately an 

 angle of 45° with the midrib. The ends of these lateral veins 

 connected by loops (brachydodromous), said loops at a Consider- 

 able distance from the edge. Besides these, there are a large 

 number of fine anastomosing veins. Twigs nearly terete, reddish. 



Mature leaves rather large, 9 inches long by 1 ^ broad not being 

 an uncommon size. Equally green on both sides, falcate, venation 

 rather prominent, intramarginal vein at some distance from the 

 edge, venation spreading. 



Buds sessile, the head of 4 to 7 either on a short strap-shaped 

 peduncle or this may be absent. The buds more or less angular 

 by mutual compression. The operculum blunt conical or hemi- 

 spherical. 



Flmvers. — Anthers opening in parallel slits. 



Fruits small, under \ inch in diameter, conoid or nearly hemi- 

 spherical, rim narrow and slightly domed, valves (only three in 

 the specimens seen) well exserted. 



Bark of a dull uniform grey; woolly or fuzzy to cut. Not as 

 soft and as Box-like as in E. Stuartiana. Branches smooth, not 

 ribbony. The uniformity of the smooth bark of this species 

 (intermediate between that of a gum and a box, and somewhat 

 resembling that of a Grey Gum, E. pit7ictata or E. pro2)inqua) is 

 notable. 



Timber. — 4- good hard timber, not soft like that of Stuartiana. 

 Pale-coloured, a timber of promise, but data not available in 

 regard to its economic merits. 



Hab. — On the sides of hills at an elevation of about 3,500 feet 

 in the Wallangarra (New South Wales-Queensland border) dis- 

 trict (J. L. Boorman, August, 1904); Emmaville ( J. L. Boorman, 

 October, 1901). 



