BY J. H. MAIDEN AND R. H. CAMBAGE. 191 



1. Eucalyptus Moorei, sp.nov. 



Syn. E. stellulata, Sieb., var. angusti/olia, Benth., B.Fl. iii. 201. 

 See also further synonom}^ in Maiden's ' Critical Revision of the 

 Genus Eucalyptus,' v. 129, together with figs. 5a, .56 and 6 of 

 Plate 2.5. 



An erect, rather slender shrub of up to 10 or 12 feet in height, 

 with a stem diameter of 2 to 4 inches. It forms dense masses of 

 small area, reminding one somewhat of a whipstick Mallee, but 

 lacking the root stockiness of that form of Eucalyptus growth. 



Juvenile leaves narrow-lanceolate, glaucous blue, the plant 

 sometimes flowering while still in the opposite-leaved stage. 

 Leaves profusely dotted with oil glands. 



Mature leaves. — " Leaves narrow, very thick and smooth, 

 scarcely showing the venation" (Benth.). Shiny on both sides; 

 the tips of the leaves often hooked. 



Buds arranged in stellate clusters with longish sharply pointed 

 opercula. Opercula sometimes red in fresh specimens. 



Flowers in dense heads of four or five to ten and even more. 

 Anthers small and reniform. Borne in profusion in the axils of 

 the leaves. 



Fruits in dense heads, say half an inch in diameter. The com- 

 mon peduncle absent or very short; the pedicels always wanting. 

 The individual fruits of the size of a peppercorn, smooth (often 

 dotted when fresh), rim narrow, and valves always sunk. 



Bark smooth, with the outer bark peeling off in ribbons. 



Timber pale, nearly white. 



Ilab. — On the highest parts of the Blue Mountains. 



Affinities. — (1) Its affinity with F. stellulata, Sieb., is very close, 

 and it has been long looked upon as a variety of that species. 

 The forms are, however, sharply separated by the broad juvenile 

 foliage of F. stellulata. The mature foliage of F. stellulata is 

 also, as a rule, much broader, while F. stellulata attains the 

 dignity of a medium-sized tree. 



(2) Its aflinity to the narrow-leaved form of F. stricta, Sieb., 

 has already been indicated by Bentham (B.Fl. iii. 201), and, when 

 mature leaves are alone available, it is very difficult and perhaps 



