220 XLVIIL MYRTACER, ` [Eucalyptus, 
seen the frujt, but it appears quite distinct from a any other one known to me. ms to 
be allied sd * pow and E cory djia e t differs from both in the shape of the flowers. 
shru 
Specimens of two other trees n F. Te genet 8 mee c are probably closely 
allied to, if Ka Gite of t ws one toil € ead of the Gwydir, Leichhardt, in bad ` ` 
2: is d = E. albens, and has the SC Soe diants and the operculum longer 
- Bowmani, which s with in other respects e other from Mount ` ` 
Elliot, S leg in rion only differs from E. Bowmani in the upper umbels almost pani- — 
culate, in the more distinct pedicels and in the operculum rather shorter and broader, Së 
. E. siderophloia, Benth. A tall tree, with a hard, persistent rough, 
an Sate bark (F. Mueller and others). Leaves ovate-lance ate or lan- 
ceolate, much acuminate, straight or more frequently falcate, pe 3to6i — 
long, often rather thick, with numerous fine diverging veins, the intramarginal 
one close e the edge, Peduncles axillary or in terminal corymbose panicles, 
conical or amieta rather Soo gat than the c dër Sech in | the ordinary form. 
Stamens 2 to 3 lines long, all perfect, inflected in the bud; anthers very 
small and nearly globular, the cells very short, opening at first in oblong slits, 
extending at length to the base or sometimes almost confluent. Ov ry con- 
vex or conical in the centre. Fruit ee aires or z dbovold, 3 to 4 lines 
Queensland. Mosis on dt? * Tron-bark,” 4. . Cunningham, Leichhardt, and others. 
Port Jackson, “ Iron-ba rk, ” R. Brown, and others; “ Iron-bark " and 
p She cited = " Woolls ; Hastings and wem ier ** Tron-bark, ? Beckler, C. Moore. 
Var. (?) rostrata. d ee i to i in. long; e-valves more prominent — Port 
Jackson, *Iron-bark," R: Brown Caley’; : Greater "ci Mk " Backhouse ; "large 
"his species is Bien ‘allied on the one hand to E. albens, and on the other to Z. crebra 
and other Iron-barks. When the operculum is short, specimens in bud only are much like 
those of the Black-butt, E pilularis, with which they appear to have been eren both 
by De Candolle and F. Mueller, although distinguished by all Se flows 
are open the anthers give a ready character, and the venation se the lea e merit = 
rent. The rostrate variety, when in young bud, resembles Z. 7. Geesen and even E. tereti- 
cornis, but the venation, and still more the anthers, y ous cum uish i 
E. fibrosa, - Muell. in Journ. Linn. Soc. iii. 87, fr Dy Brisbane, is SC eg? wn from 
ërem in Län bud, in which state I am una ri o distinguish them from the vat. 
rostrata E. siderop vest F. Mueller, however, Act te it as a Stringy- WË It may 
Been] is to be distin 
9. E. melano xm F. Muell. in Journ. Linn. Soc. iii. 93. Asmal ` 
tree with. a blackish persistent deeply-furrowed per (E. DE the “fling a 
more or less glaucous or mealy-white. Leaves sessile, opposite, from co- — J 
date-ovate or orbicular to ovate lanceolate, EROR or acute. Peduncles shot, ` 
terete or nearly so, 3- to 6-flowered, , axillary or several in a short termi 
ube. Stamens 2 to 3. lines long, inflected in the "bud; anthers very wor 
and globular, but the cells parallel and distinct, Fruit ‘pear-shaped or g^ 
