DESCRIPTION. 



CCLXV. E. Laser oni R. T. Baker. 



In Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., xxvii, 585 (1912), with Plate LXIII. 

 Following is the original description : — 



Arbuscula usque ad 35' alta. Cortex fibrosus, tarn in ramis quam in trunco persistens, viridis, et 

 hinc " Bastard Stringybark." Folia 3-5" longa, fere 1-2" lata, lanceolata, ovata, alternata subcoriacea, 

 concoloria; venis patcntibus, peripherica a margine remota, venulis obliquatis. Pedunculi I" longi, 

 axillares, solitarii, 10-15 flori. Fructus ^" longi, pilulares ; margine convexo, valvis non exsertis. . ' . . 



It is a small tree, 35 feet high and 1 foot in diameter, as far as seen. The fibrous bark covers the 

 trunk, and decorticates in long strips from the main branches, which are otherwise smooth, but darker 

 than in E. stellulata. The timber is yellowish-brown, and tough to cut, but brittle. . . . From the 

 specimens seen, this is not a good timber. It is fairly close-grained, of a pale colour, but the presence of 

 gum veins will militate against its general utiUsation by the commercial world. 



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 letter term. 



Abnormal (juvenile) leaves ovate, lanceolate, shghtly falcate in some instances, petiolate, attenuate, 

 varying in size up to 5 inches long, and up to 2 inches broad. Normal leaves lanceolate, alternate, sub- 

 coriaceous, 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 J inch long. Operculum sharply conical. 

 Fruits hemispherical, capitular, rim domed, valves scarcely or not exserted, J inch in diameter, 

 pedicel varying in length up to 2 lines long. 



RANGE. 



" 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 cross between " Silver- 

 top Stringybark," E. IcBvopinea, and " Sally," E. stellulata. A few trees are to be found on a rough rocky 

 basalt hillock, about half a mile south of Black Mountain railway station." (Original description.) 



The above locality is in the higher parts of New England, New South Wales. 

 The railway station in question is 4,330 feet above sea-level, and between Armidale 

 and Glen Innes. It is 380 miles north of Sydney. 



" In 1903 I received from Mr. R. H. Cambage ' a form of E. eugenioides Sieb.' from between Tingha 

 and Guyra, and in the following year visited the tree. I labelled it on 1st April, 1905, and again on 30th 

 March, 1906, ' probably a eugamoides-slellulata hybrid,' and I put it with my collection of reputed hybrids 

 to be dealt with collectively in my ' Critical Revision.' 



"During the present year, Mr. R. T. Baker has described it as a new 9])eciea (E . LasoroJii) , and says 

 it bears the local reputation of being a cross between E. Iwvopinea and stellulata." {Journ. Roii. Soc. N.S.W., 

 xlvii, 229, 1913.) 



