128 Baker, A Nezv Variety of FAicaly plus glohnlns. ]^yX\^k. 



20 years old ; (c) leaves from a young tree 6 feet high ; {d) leaves 

 from young tree I2 feet high ; {e) twig from mature tree, with 

 early buds, mature buds, and flowers ; (/) twig with fruits from 

 mature tree. The young seedUngs have ovate-lanceolar, 

 acuminate, petiolate leaves, glaucous above, under surface 

 purplish ; the cotyledons or seed-lobes are on slender stalks, 

 and deeply bi-lobed. 



(^a). — ^The older seedhng leaves are oval, sessile, or shortly 

 petiolate, and slightly or not at all cordate ; shortly acuminate ; 

 not large, about ij inches to 2 inches long, and f inch to ij 

 inches or more wide ; pale and glaucous on the under side, 

 oil-dots numerous, stem terete, branchlets square. 



{h). — Similar in shape to those of (a), only longer. 



(c). — ^The leaves of the adventitious shoots are longer, 

 orbicular, cordate, lateral veins shghtly oblique, parallel, and 

 looping some distance from the edge ; branchlets rectangular. 



{d). — ^These are large, petiolate, oval to oval-lanceolate, showing 

 intermediate stage to normal leaves. 



{e). — ^This is an interesting specimen, as it shows the in- 

 florescence in every stage. The early stages are characterized 

 by a calyptra, covering two or three buds. The mature buds 

 are more like those of E. Maideni than E. globulus, and differ 

 from the latter in the absence of a second operculum. The 

 calyx is compressed, sessile, about |-inch long, J-inch and less in 

 width, operculum acuminate, depressed, tuberculate, stamen? 

 inflexed before expansion ; anthers parallel, opening by longi- 

 tudinal slits. 



Normal leaves lanceolate, falcate, as in the type, with similar 

 venation, 2 inches to 2 feet or more in length, I inch to 3 inches 

 broad, on petioles varying from i inch to 2 inches long ; oil- 

 dots conspicuous. 



The fruits of this variety differ considerably in size and other 

 features from the type ; they measure about I inch long to 

 I inch in diameter. 



The edges of the compressed calyx are here seen to have 

 developed into shghtly broken ridges ; there is quite an absence 

 of the tubercules so pronounced a feature on the type ; the 

 rim is sharp and well defined, and slopes down or upwards to 

 the summit of the valves, that vary in number from two to four. 



It is the seedhng leaves, the presence of a calyptra in the 

 early buds, the absence of double opercula, and the fruits which 

 justify, in my opinion, the tree being given varietal rank. 



The accompanying plate shows a series of typical " carpels," 

 or " fruits," reduced to one-half their natural size. The speci- 

 men marked A was grown in America. 



