BY IIENKY DEAXE AND J. U. MAIDEN. 799 



*' Lid conical, and, as well as the calyx, angular, and somewhat 

 two-edged. Heads of flowers lateral, solitary, on flower-stalks. 



" The leaves are ovate-lanceolate, firm, astringent, but not very 

 aromatic. We have seen no other species in which the flowers 

 stand in little dense heads, each flower not being pedicellated so 

 as to form an umbel. The lid is about as long as the ca^y.r. 

 FIoH-er-staJk compressed, always solitary and simple. 



" The fruit of this species, standing on part of a branch whose 

 leaves are fallen off, is figured in Mr. White's ' Voyage,' p. 226, 

 along with the leaves of the next species." (' Botany of New 

 Holland,' p. 42). 



The description was made from plants procured in the neigh- 

 l)ourhood of Sj'dney. 



Vernacular names. — "Red Stringybark " is a name generallv 

 applied to this species in this colony in allusion to the darker 

 colour of the wood as compared with that of E. eugenioides, White 

 Stringybark. It also goes under tlie name of " Broad-leaved 

 Stringybark." In the AValcha district it appears to be confused 

 with Red Mahogan}'. 



Seedling or sucker leaves. — These are well I'epresented in 

 Howitt's ' Eucalypts of Gippsland,' PI. 11 (Trans. Roy. Soc. Vict, 

 ii.). Like those of E. macrorrhynclia and E. eugenioides, they 

 are placed opposite one another at an earl}- stage, but very soon 

 become alternate. The young shoots are warty. 



Mature leaves. — They are very coriaceous, even when grown at 

 a considerable distance from the sea. The leaves are larger and 

 coarser than those of two other Stringybarks ( E. macrorrhynclia 

 and E. eugenioides), and very oblique. 



Buds. — The l)ud>i and peduncles are generally somewhat thick 

 and angular or flattened, and contrast with the neatness of shape 

 of those of E. eugenioides and E. macrorrhyncha. In some cases, 

 however, the buds are round, symmetrical and plump, and resem]:)le 

 more nearly those of E. engenioides. 



Flou-ers. — The filaments of the anthers sometimes drv dark. 



Fruits. — In consequence of the fruits being sessile or nearly so 

 and crowded into heads, they assume a polygonal shape at the 



