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ON A NEW SPECIES OF ANGOPHORA. 



By R. T. Baker, E.L.S., Curator, Technological Museum, 

 Sydney. 



Angophora melanoxylon, sp.nov. 



"Coolabah." 



(Plate ii.) 



A medium-sized tree, from 40-50 feet high, with a diameter up 

 to 3 feet; the bark somewhat similar to a " Box " bark, much less 

 fibrous than that of A. subvelutina, F.v.M., or A. intermedia, DC. 

 Branchlets glabrous or minutely pubescent, with or without 

 bristles. 



Leaves much more numerous than in the other species of 

 Angophora, mostly under two inches long, rarely exceeding 2|in., 

 and under |in. broad; lanceolate or cordate at the base, with 

 rounded auricles, sessile or almost so, nearly always opposite and 

 decussate; blue-green on the upper side, pale yellow-green on the 

 lower or under side, which is occasionally minutely pubescent; 

 lateral veins fine, parallel, indistinct on the upper surface, 

 margins recurved. 



Flowers in dense terminal corymbs or short panicles, about tlie 

 same size as, or perhaps a little less than, those of A. lanceolata, 

 Cav. Calyx 2-4 lines in diameter, turbinate, glabrous or with a 

 few bristles; teeth acute. Petals white, imbricate, shortly or 

 abruptly acuminate. 



Fruiting calyx 4 to 6 lines long, often as broad at the top. 

 Longitudinal ribs very prominent; rim thin, sometimes incurved. 

 Hab.— Coolabah, N.S.W. (Messrs R. H. Cambage and W. 

 Biiuerlen); New Angledool, N.S.W. (Mr. A. Paddison); Bourke, 

 N.S.W. (Mr. R. H. Cambage); West Bogan, N.S.W. (Mr. B. 

 W. Peacock). 



