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Following is an excellent account of the tree : — ■ 



Eucalyptus peltata is known around Alma-den as Yellow Jack, from the ycUowisli colour of the 

 scaly bark, which is of much the same texture as that of the Bloodwood group, though perhaps a little 

 more flaky. This rough scaly bark extends to the brauchlets, the tips of which are angular, glabrous 

 and yello\^dsh. The timber is pale towards the outside of the tree, but dark brown near the centre. The 

 fruits are slightl}' urceolate and the sessile buds are angular in dried specimens. The only peltate leaves 

 seen were amongst the ovate, scabrous, " sucker " foliage. The adult leaves examined are glabrous and 

 lanceolate, with a yellowish midrib, and are 5 to 6 inches long and one-quarter of an inch to 1 inch 

 broad. The " sucker " steins are hispid. (R. H. Cambage in Proc. Roy. Soc. N.S.W., xlix, 407, 1915.) 



SYNONYMS. 



1. E. melissiodora F.v.M. in Joum. Linn. Soc. iii, 95 (1859), 



but not of Lindley. 



2. E. Leiehhardtii Bailey. 



3. E. eximia Schauer, var. Leiehhardtii Ewart. 



1. E. melissiodora F.v.M. in Joum. Linn. Soc. iii, 95 (1859). 

 Following is a translation of the original : — 



A tree, branchlets compressed-tetragonal, rough, leaves opposite or sub-opposite, ovate or 

 sub-cordate, rarely oblong-lanceolate, petiolate and scabrous above the rounded somewhat inflexed base, 

 opaque, covered with translucent dots, penniveined reticulately veined, peripheral vein unequally distant 

 from the margin, umbels paniculate, 6-7 flowered, peduncles scabrous, angled and longer than the 

 calyx-tube, buds ovate, smooth, eeostate shortly pedicellate, the calyx-tube half as long again as the 

 interior conical-hemisfiherical operculum, the outer operculum imperfect, fruits campanulate, three-celled, 

 smooth at the vertex, valves included, seeds smooth, winged. Habitat in the porphyritic mountains of 

 Newcastle Eange. Flowered October and November. A small or medium sized tree, trunk straight, bark 

 adhering all over, shining with brittle dirty 5'ellow flakes. Branchlets and peduncles grown over with an 

 ash-coloured and rusty roughness. Leaves with a petiole J-1 inch long, semiterete, for the most part, 

 adhering above the base, rarely to the margin, generally 2-3 inches long, 1^2^ inches broad, in the 

 abnormal specimen collected by Mitchell* up to 5 inches long and 1 inch only broad, sometimes acute, 

 sometimes obtuse or rather emarginate. Calyx-tube shining obconical, semi-ovate, 2-3 lines long narrowed 

 into a very short pedicel. Operculum double, the exterior one chestnut brown, slowly coming away in 

 pieces, grown to the interior one; the interior one 1^ lines long. Fruit about 4 lines long, perfecth' 

 campanulate, green, somewhat smooth at the vertex, valves inserted above the middle of the tube. 

 Seeds brown, shining. The species is remarkable for the double operculum. 



Mueller (" Eucalyptographia " under E. peltata) concurs in Bentham's opinion 

 that E. melissiodora, " might merely constitute the young state of E. citriodora, and 

 this has been confirmed through local observation by Dr. E. Wuth, whose attention I 

 directed to this subject." He goes on to point out that, in dealing with E. maculaia 

 in " Eucalj^tographia," he added E. peltata as a synonym by a slip of the pen. 



• This is another plant, the true K melissiodora Lindl,, which is a synonym of E. maaUata var. citriodora. 



