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minate. Ovary flat-topped. Outer stamens sterile. Anthers 

 parallel, opening by pores at the truncate end. 



Fruits small, 2 lines long and H lines in diameter, rim thin, 

 contracted slightly at the orifice, valves not exserted. 



Hob. — Bathurst, Rylstone and Camboon (R. T. Baker) ; 

 Hargraves (A. A Suttor); Gerogery (L. Mann). 



A medium-sized or rather stunted tree growing in poor, sandy, 

 rocky soil. The bark can hardly be said to be smooth, and 

 neither is it altogether a box-bark such as that of E. albens, Miq., 

 or E. hemiphloia, but l'ather between a box and a smooth bark. 

 The upper parts of the trunk and limbs are quite smooth. 



It is allied to E. melliodora in the shape and venation of the 

 leaves, and perhaps in the exterior character of the bark, but it 

 has not the yellow stain on the inner surface of the bark such as 

 obtains in E. melliodora. It differs, however, from that speeies 

 in the shape of the fruits, colour of timber, and chemical con- 

 stituents of its oil. 



It differs from the typical #. polyanthema, Sch., of Victoria, which 

 has a persistent box-bark right out to the branchlets, larger and 

 orbicular-shaped leaves, and larger fruits. The oils of the two 

 species are not at all identical, but there is a resemblance in their 

 timbers. 



It differs from E. conica, Deane & Maiden, in having a 

 smoothish bark, and in the shape of the leaves and fruits, and 

 chemical constituents of the oil; nor can it be confounded with 

 E. pendvla, A. Cunn., (E. Icurgiflorens, F.v.M.) which has a 

 box-bark, and fruits and leaves quite different from this species. 



The timber, leaves and bark differentiate it from the Lignum- 

 vitaa, E. Fletcheri, Baker, of St. Mary's and Thirlmere. 



In botanical sequence it is placed next to E. Dawsoni, Baker, 

 as it approaches this tree in the colour of its timber, and 

 occasionally in the shape of the leaves, but differs in every other 

 respect. 



There appears to be no reference to this tree in the writings of 

 Dr. Woolls and Mr. A. Gr. Hamilton, both of whom wrote on the 

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