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ON SOME NEW SPECIES OF EUCALYPTUS. 



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

 Sydney. 



(Plates xliii.-xlvi.) 



E. intermedia, sp.nov. 

 "Blood wood" or "Bastard Bloodwood." 



(Plate xlvi., fig. 1.) 



A medium-sized tree with a light brown fibrous bark. 



Leaves lanceolate, acuminate, about 6 inches long, and 1-1 J 

 inches wide or more, pale on the underside; lateral veins oblique, 

 fine, numerous, parallel; intramarginal vein quite close to the 

 edge. 



Flowers mostly in large terminal corymbs. Calyx turbinate, 

 4 lines in diameter, 3 lines long, on a pedicel of about 4 lines. 

 Ovary flat-topped. Stamens all fertile; anthers parallel, opening 

 by longitudinal slits. 



Fruits urceolate, about 6 lines long, 4-5 lines in diameter, con- 

 tracted at the orifice to sometimes 2 lines; rim thin, capsule 

 sunken. 



Hab. — Ballina (W. Bauei'len); Richmond and Clarence Rivers 

 (Rev. Dr. Woolls); Barney's Wharf, Cambewarra (W. Bauerlen, 

 P. Macpherson). 



A tree closely allied to both E. corymbosa, Sm., and E. eximia, 

 Schau. It has, however, always been considered as the northern 

 form of the former species, but in botanical characters it more 

 nearly resembles the latter, and especially E. maculata, Hook. 

 The chemical constituents and optical features place it midway 

 between the two former. It differs from E. corymbosa in the 



