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DESCRIPTION. 



CCLXII. E. angophoroides R. T. Baker. 



In Proc, Linn. Soc. N.S.W., xxv, 676 (1900), with Plate xlvi, figs. 4a, 4b, 4c. 

 Following is the original description : — 



A medium sized tree with a white box bark persistent to the ultimate branches. 



Sucker leaves ovate-acuminate, cordate, shortly petiolate, glaucous, variable in size from 1 to 3 or 

 4 inches long, and 1 to 3 inches broad ; venation indistinct on both sides. Leaves of mature trees narrow 

 lanceolate, about 6 inches long, acuminate, not shining, of the same colour on both sides ; venation finely 

 marked, oblique, spreading ; intramarginal vein removed from the edge. Oil glands numerous. 



Peduncles axillary, 3 to 4 lines long, slightly compressed, bearing a few flowers. Calyx hemi- 

 spherical to pyriform, 1 line long. Pedicel about 1 line long. Operculum hemispherical, shortly acuminate 

 Ovary domed. Stamens all fertile ; anthers parallel, opening by longitudinal slits. 



Fruits hemispherical to slightly pear-shaped, 2 lines in diameter and under 4 lines long ; rim thick, 

 sloping outwards — a ring just below the edge; valves generally 4, exserted under 1 line. 



The author calls it " Apple-top Box," and adds " E. Bridgesiana Baker, partim." 

 For a reference to E. Bridgesiana Baker, see p. 68, Part XXIV. 



RANGE. 



It is confined to the southern coastal district of New South Wales, and may be 

 expected to be found in eastern Gippsland, Victoria. 



" Colombo, N.S.W. (W. Baeuerlen) ; Towrang, N.S.W. (R. T. Baker). It is 

 quite limited in its distribution, and presents no difficulty of determination in the field." 

 (Original description.) 



Colombo is on the Bemboka River amongst the hills. It is no great distance 

 west of Bega, and therefore in county of Auckland, in the extreme south-east of thig 

 State. The Wyndham locality, to be quoted later, is south-west of Colombo, and in 

 the same county. Nangutta is somewhat further south. Yourie to be referred to later 

 is in the county of Dampier, also a coastal county, and a little north of the county of 

 Auckland. 



■ Towrang is a railway station 126 miles from Sydney, 8 miles north of Goulburn, 

 and this locality is important since it yielded the oil attributed to this species which 

 Messrs. Baker and Smith (" Research on the Eucalypts," p. 144) examined. 



