10 Aug., 1916. J 



Fiee-keepinr/ in Victoria. 



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alternate and stalked, oblong and lance- shaped, often very narrow 

 lance-shaped and more or less curved, attaining in the mature state 

 a, length of 12 inches or more, and resembling much the leaves of the 

 Mountain Gum {E . goniocalyx), but not quite so lustrous on the upper 

 side; the veins are distinct, the marginal one removed from the edge. 



Fig. 52. — The Red Mountain Ash (/•;. I>i-Lc(jatriisis, K. T. Baker). 

 I'Voin I'roccediii^s, Liinioan Society, N.S.W., 1000. 



Tlie flowers are few, stalkless, at the shoulders of leaves on a much 

 flattened cluster stalk. The flow cup is angular or flattened, the lid of 

 tlie bud much constricted and warty. 



Fruit, A inch in diameter, thus much smaller than that of the real 

 Blue Gum "(A'. f/J')f>ii/us) to|) shaped tn somewhat half-rou!id. 



