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rigid, but with the oblique rather irregular veins conspicuous on both sides, the intramarginal one near 

 the edge. Peduncles axillary or lateral, very thick, flat and broad, ,1 to 1 inch thick, flattened pedicels. 

 Calyx-tube turbinate, very thick, irregularly ribbed, }, to | inch long, and nearly | inch diameter at the top. 

 with four more or less prominent angles, terminating in exceedingly short, obtuse, scarcely prominent 

 teeth. Operculum red, thick and fleshy, depressed and flat-topped, broader and shorter than the calyx- 

 tube, obtusely square or almo.st foiu-lobed, divided into four quarters by raised ribs, forming a crOss on the 

 top, each quarter transversely wrinkled, with a raised rib along the centre, opposite to the calyx-teeth. 

 Stamens very numerous, inflected, forming four bundles alternating with the calyx-teeth, the claw 

 or entire part very short and broad, or four clusters if the claw be considered as a mere dilatation 

 or lobe of the margin of the staminal disk. Ovarjj much depressed, flat-topped. Fruit nearly hemispherical, 

 ribbed, 1 to IJ inch diameter, the margin of the calyx horizontally dilated, the disk very broad and obtusely 

 prominent, giving it the shape of an old-fashioned hat. the capsule depressed in the sentre, the valves not 

 raised. 



Mueller redescribed it, \vith a figure, in his " Eucalyptograpliia." In that work 



he repeats that the filaments are sometimes purplish, thus adding it to the number of 



species with filaments of more than one colour. 



To the description should be added :— Juvenile leaves broader than the adult, margin very smooth) 

 broadish and both sides and the branchlets stellato-scabrous. 



This species is often shrubby, but sometimes a tree of 10 metres, in calcareous coast-lands, it seems 

 to be restricted to the Irwin district. Mueller's Eucalyptographia ' plate unsatisfactory." (Diels and 

 Pritze), Englers Jahrb. xxxv, 444, 1905.1 



The authors do not say in what respects Mueller's plate is unsatisfactory — 

 perhaps in the absence of juvenile leaves which were, however, sent by Drummond, 

 although apparently Bentham and Mueller did not see them. Probably they refer 

 to the reduced scale of the drawing, which is thus calculated to mislead, and the plan 

 of the flower, at figure 2, which does not show the stamens in bundles. 



Following is the history of two out of several plants in the Botanic Gardens, 

 Sydney, raised from Mr. W. D. Campbell's seed. We find it requires a sheltered 

 situation to do well. Sown 10th October, 1913, seedlings drawn in various stages, 

 planted out 11th May, 1914, flowered 12th April, 1917. 



(a) 12 feet high and 7 inches girth at 3 feet from the ground (23/4/17). 19 feet 



5 inches high, and 13 ft. 6 in. in girth (15/10/20). 

 {b) 16 feet high, and 7 inches girth at 3 feet from ground (23/4/17). 20 ft. 3 in. 



high, and 10| inches in girth (15/10/20). 



The following description is taken from fresh material from the above two small 

 trees : — • 



Stems white, smooth. The mature leaves opposite, and the branchlets decu.ssate. The inflorescence 

 displays the most charming colour-scheme of any Eucalypt known to me. The axes or branchlets bearing 

 the inflorescence are of a dull i^urple lake (see Dauthenay, Plate 170, shades 2-4). The long, flattened 

 peduncles are moss-green (see Dauthenay, Plate 272, shades 1 and 2). The buds are handsome because of 

 the large, fleshy, biretta-like opercula, of an old carmine red (see Dauthenay, Plate 107, shades 1 and 2), 

 which contrast well with the rich, grass-green ribbed calyx-tubes (Dauthenay, Plate 273, shades 2-4). 

 The inside of the large operculum is smooth and white, and the outside has four raised, cruciform ridges, 

 the general surface being more or less rugose. The falling of the operculum is succeeded by the protrusion 

 of filaments, at first greenish-yellow (primrose-yellow), and afterwards lemon or golden-yellow (see 

 Dauthenay, Plate 16, shades 2 and 3). The staminal disc or ring being broad and white, it effectively 

 contrasts the colours of the calyx-tube and filaments. See also p. 135, for a further account of the stamens 

 and staminal livs- 



