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in smooth laminae or strips (C. Stuart), the foliage usually very glaucous 

 or almost mealy-white. Leaves usually large, broad, ovate-lanceolate or 

 lanceolate, often 6 in. long or more, rigid, with oblique veins, the intra- 

 margitial one at a distance from the edge. Peduncles lateral, rigid, 

 scarcely flattened, sometimes ^ in. long, but often much shorter, bearing 

 4 to 8 rather large flowers. Buds long and acuminate, apparently sessile, 

 but really tapering into short thick angular pedicels. Calyx-tube 3 to 4 

 lines long and scarcely 2 lines diameter, 2-angled or nearly terete. Oper- 

 culum conical, acuminate, as long as or rather shorter than the calyx- tube. 

 Stamens 3 to 4 lines long, all perfect, inflected; anthers very small and 

 globular, with distinct parallel cells, opening at length to the base or 

 nearly so. Ovary short, slightly conical in the centre. Fruit obovoid- 

 oblong, truncate, nearly y 2 in. long, the rim narrow, the capsule deeply 

 sunk. 



N. S. Wales. Macquarrie river, A. Cunningham; New England, 

 "White Gum," C, Stuart; between Alford's and the Range, "Box," 

 Leichhardt. 



Victoria. Poor plains, between Ten-mile Creek and Broken River, 

 " White Box," F. Mueller. 



A very distinct species with something of the habit of the Robust^, 

 but with the anthers of the Micranthera. F. Mueller refers it to E. pal- 

 lens, DC., which I have not seen. De Candolle's character agrees rather 

 better with E. dealbata than with E. albens, but the short hemispherical 

 operculum he describes occurs in neither. 



37. E. Bowmani, F. Muell. Herb. Stature and bark unknown. 

 Leaves ovate-lanceolate or broadly lanceolate, mostly 4 to 6 in. long, 

 straight or falcate, obtuse or acuminate, rigid, with oblique veins, the 

 marginal one at a distance from the edge, like those of E. albens, but not 

 glaucous. Peduncles axillary or lateral, more or less flattened, bearing 

 4 to 8 rather large flowers. Buds obtuse, tapering into a short very thick 

 pedicel or nearly sessile. Calyx-tube obovoid or turbinate, thick, about 

 2 lines long and as much diameter. Operculum thick, obtuse, longer 

 than the calyx-tube. Stamens 3 to 4 lines long, the filaments slender, 

 inflected in the bud, but not showing the acute angle of E. corynocalyx; 

 anthers very small and globular, but with distinct parallel cells, opening 

 longitudinally. Ovary conical in the centre. Fruit unknown. 



Queensland, Bowman. I have some hesitation in describing the 

 species without having seen the fruit, but it appears quite distinct from 

 any other one known to me. It seems to be allied to E. albens and E. 

 corynocalyx, but differs from both in the shape of the flowers. 



Specimens of two other trees or shrubs, in F. Mueller's collection, 

 are probably closely allied to, if not varieties of the same; one from the 

 head of the Gwydir, Leichhardt, in bud only, is glaucous like E. albens, 

 and has the calyx-tube shorter and the operculum longer than in E. 

 Bowmani, which it agrees with in other respects. The other from Mount 



