303 



ON SOME NEW SPECIES OF EUCALYPTUS. 



By R. T. Baker, F.LS., Curator, Technological Museum, 

 Sydney. 



(Plates xv.-xix.) 



Eucalyptus vitrea, sp.nov. 



"White Top Messmate." 



(Plate xv.) 



A tall tree with a roughish bark similar to E. amygdalina, 

 Lai >ill., the extremities of the branches being smooth. 



Sucker leaves alternate or opposite, with a short petiole or 

 -sessile, ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, lateral veins diverging from 

 below the middle of the midrib, prominent on both sides, intra- 

 marginal vein removed from the edge, not shining; under 6 inches 

 long, \h inches broad. Mature leaves narrow-lanceolate, about 

 6 inches long, and 6 to 9 lines wide, petiole short; slbining on 

 both sides, a dull green when fresh but drying a light slate colour; 

 lateral veins few and almost parallel to the midrib, two generally 

 commencing at the base of the midrib and running the whole 

 length of the leaf almost parallel to the midrib. Oil glands very 

 numerous. 



Peduncles axillary, short, 2-3 lines, bearing generally from 5-8 

 flowers. Buds from 2| to 4 lines long, operculum hemispherical, 

 shortly acuminate. Ovary flat-topped. Anthers kidney-shaped, 

 connective prominent. 



Fruit hemispherical, about 3 lines in diameter, rim thick, red, 

 slightly convex, shining, pedicel about 1 line long. 



Hob.— Crookwell (J. J. Hook), Moss Vale (S. Farrell), 

 mountains north of Marulan (R. H. Cambage), Bungendore (W. 

 Bauerlen). 



