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ON TWO UNRECORDED MYRTACEOUS PLANTS 

 FROM NEW SOUTH WALES. 



By R. T. Baker, F.L.S. 



(Plates Ixiii.-lxiv.) 



Eucalyptus Laseroni, sp.nov. 



A small tree under 40 feet high, and about 1 foot in diameter, 

 with a fibrous but hard stringy bark, in the general acceptation 

 of the latter term. 



Abnormal leaves ovate, lanceolate, slightly falcate in some 

 instances, petiolate, attenuate, varying in size up to 5 inches long, 

 and up to 2 inches broad. Normal leaves lanceolate, alternate, 

 subcoriaceous, average leaves under 4 inches long, and 1 inch 

 wide, occasionally shining. Venation distinctly marked, the 

 basal lateral veins sometimes running the whole length of the 

 leaf, and well removed from the edge; the other lateral veins not 

 so oblique, more transverse. 



Buds in clusters, on axillary peduncles about ^ inch long. 

 Operculum sharply conical. 



Fruits hemispherical, capitular, rim domed, valves scarcely or 

 not exserted, ^ inch in diameter, pedicel varying in length up to 

 2 lines long. 



Arbuscula usque ad 35' alta. Cortex fibrosus, tam in ramis 

 quam in trunco persistens, viridis, et hinc " Bastard Stringy- 

 bark." Folia 3-5" longa, fere 1-2" lata, lanceolata, ovata, alter- 

 nata, subcoriacea, concoloria ; venis patentibus, peripherica a 

 margine remota, venulis obliquatis. Pedunculi ^ longi, axillare.'^, 

 solitarii, 10-15-flori. Fructus \" longi, pilulares; margine convexo, 

 valvis non exsertis. 



Remarks. — This tree, so far, is known only from the Black 

 Mountain district, where Mr. Laseron obtained material in July, 

 1907. He states in his field-notes that it is regarded locally as a 



