18 DESCRIPTION OF A NEW EUCALYPT BY F. M. BAILBY, F.L.S. 



The following may be given as a short description of the 

 plant which is probably only an accidental sport. It will be 

 interesting to know whether the form can be propagated from 

 the seed. I have called it F.wdlyptm ficifoWt, var. (Tidlfoiflei. 

 Plant, 12 to 15ft. high ; branchlets sharply angular from the 

 prominent decurrent lines from base of petioles ; leaves on tlie 

 dowering branchlets lanceolate, tapering to rather acuminated 

 points, cuneate and unequal-sided at the bas^, 2^in. to 8|in. 

 long; petioles about fin. long, more or less flattened; blade 

 coriaceous in texture ; veins very obscure, from the thick sul)- 

 stance of the leaf, but under a lens found to be close, parallel, 

 and joining the intramarginal one close to the edge ; the oil-dots 

 not easily seen without the aid of a lens, and then found to 

 be abundant ; flowers of a deep rose, in terminal corymbose 

 panicles, the shoot bearing the inflorescence elongated in the 

 form of a common peduncle and bearing small bract-like leaves ; 

 umbels bearing from one to three flowers each ; both the 

 peduncles and pedicels flattened ; calyx goblet-shaped, no angles, 

 4 or 5 lines long ; operculum hemispherical, very prominently 

 umbonate ; stamens about six lines long ; anthers oblong ; 

 stigma not dilated. Fruit ovate-urceolate, nearly l^in. long, 

 three-celled ; seeds glossy-brown, winged on one side, round tlie 

 base, but more elongated at the upper end, the shape somewhat 

 lunate. 



