BY HENRY DEANE AND J. H. MAIDEN. 105 



Sucker leaves — Alternate, ovate, obtuse, slightly emarginate 

 and mucronate (in our specimens); about 3 inches long by 1| 

 broad; intramarginal vein at a considerable distance from the 

 edge. 



Mature leaves. — Lanceolate, slightly falcate; pale-coloured, dull 

 on both sides, rather coriaceous, usully 2 to 3 inches long; veins 

 at an angle of about 30° with the midrib, but inconspicuous 

 except the midrib and the thickened margin; intramarginal vein 

 inconspicuous and at some distance from the edge. 



Peduncles axillai-y, flattened at first but nearly terete when the 

 fruit is ripe; with 3 to 7 flowers. 



Buds. — Shaped like a tip-cat, to use a homely expression, i.e. T 

 tapered equally towards base and operculum; somewhat angular, 

 the operculum attenuate. Calyx-tube likewise attenuate, taper- 

 ing into a short pedicel. Anthers in the bud all folded; stamens 

 white, the outer ones seemingly all fertile; anthers opening in 

 terminal pores. Style and stigma as figured at fig. 6, E. hemi- 

 phloia, in the Eucalyptographia. 



Fruits.— Ovate-truncate, tapered at the base, somewhat con- 

 tracted at the orifice, about 3 lines in diameter, the rim narrow, 

 slightly convex and dark-coloured; the capsule depressed. 



Jltniiji'. — Between Wellington and Dubbo, towards Molong and 

 Parkes, Grenfell, and in other parts of the Western districts. 



The species appears to possess resemblances to the imperfectly 

 known Ironbark, E. drepanophylla, F.v.M. The fruits of the 

 latter are, however, sub-cylindrical, the orifice not constricted, 

 the rim different and the valves slightly exserted when the 

 capsule is perfectly ripe; the leaves are narrower and the veins 

 finer and more parallel. Further observations on this head may 

 be deferred until E. drepanophylla is more perfectly known. 



The true affinities of our species are, in our opinion, with E. 

 sideroxylon, A. Cunn., and E. hemiphloia, F.v.M. Ptoughly 

 speaking, it resembles the inflorescence of E. hemiphloia, the 

 fruits of E. sideroxylon, while its timber and bark partake of the 

 characters of both. 



