76 THE VICTORIAN NATURALIST. 



DESCRIPTIONS OF NEW AUSTRALIAN PLANTS, WITH 

 OCCASIONAL OTHER ANNOTATIONS; 



By Baron von Mueller, K.C.M.G., M. & Ph.D., F.R.S. 

 (Continued.) 

 Eucalyptus Bauerleni. 



Shrubby or arborescent; branclilets rather robust, angular when 

 young ; leaves scattered, on comparatively short petioles, thickly 

 chartaceous, mostly falcate-lanceolar, dark-green on both sides, 

 without conspicuous lustre ; their venules subtle, rather close, 

 moderately spreading, the marginal one distinctly removed from 

 the edge of the leaf; oil-dots copious but faint; peduncles 

 axillary, solitary, very short, broadish, compressed, usually three- 

 flowered; pedicels only very little developed or quite obliterated; 

 tube of the calyx almost semi-ovate or more hemi-ellipsoid, slightly 

 angular ; operculum somewhat shorter than the tube, its lower 

 part rather depressed, the upper somewhat suddenly ending in a 

 narrow point ; stamens all fertile ; filaments yellowish-white 

 except the reddish base, infracted before expansion; anthers pale, 

 nearly ovate, opening by longitudinal slits ; style short ; stigma 

 hardly broader than the style ; fruit somewhat large, nearly 

 semi-ovate, its border narrow, slightly channelled ; valves three 

 or four, arising considerably below the border, semi-exserted, 

 rather pointed ; fertile seeds almost ovate, without any append- 

 age, larger than the sterile seeds, flat or angular on the inner 

 side. 



On rocky declivities of the Sugar-Loaf Mountain, towards the 

 sources of the Clyde, at elevations between 2,500 and 4,000 feet, 

 together with Eriostemon Coxii and Hakea Mac?'aeana ; W. 

 Bauerlen. 



Thinly few- or many-stemmed, flowering at a height of 5 feet, 

 but attaining to 40 feet. Bark smooth, brownish outside, the 

 outer layers seceding. Leaves to 7 inches long and to 1 inch 

 broad, generally with a reddish edge. Calyx inside near the 

 margin often red. Style usually red. Fruit often fully ^-inch 

 long. 



This species in many respects approaches E. goniocalyx, but 

 the leaves are of a darker green, have the venules more immersed, 

 and are more pellucidly dotted ; the peduncles are shorter and 

 bear a lesser number of flowers, the lid is much pointed, almost 

 like that of E. leucoxylon, the fruit is larger and nearly as broad 

 as long with elongated and thus much emerging valves, hence 

 more like that of E. resinifera, and the leaves of young seedlings 

 are from roundish-oval to elliptic and soon scattered. 



It differs from E. Gunnii in the marked curvature of the leaves 

 and their thinner venules, reduced inflorescence, constant 

 obliteration of pedicels, somewhat angular calyx-tube, longer 



