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DESCRIPTION. 



CCLXVI. E. Be Beuzevillei Maiden. 



In Joum. Roy. Soc. N.8.W., liv, 68 (1920). 



Following is the original description : — 



Arbor ampla plusve minusve glauca ; cortice Iseve, laniellis longissimis decidua, trunci basi aspero- 

 lamellosa, ligno pallido fere albo, gummi venis; foliis fragrantibus, foliis jurdoribus orbicularibus ad 

 cordatis, venis secondariis patentibus vel sursum curvatis ; foliis maturis lanceolatis, crassis, venia 

 secondariis basi patentibus postquam longitudinalibus ; alabastris angularibus fere alatis, operculo conoideo 

 calycis tubo ca. diniidio aequilongo ; fructibus polygonalibus, angrdaribus, piriformibus vel subglobosis, 

 capsula depressa, sessile vel brevissime pedunculata. 



A tree of medium or large size, up to 60 feet high, a " White Gum," more or less glaucous, the young 

 branchlets glandular. Bark smooth, but with usually more or less rough-flaky bark at the butt. Where 

 the rough bark is present it usually ascends the trunk about 5 to 6 feet ; the deciduous or smooth portion 

 in long strips, not ribbons, some of the pieces being 30 feet long. Timber pale-coloured, almost white, with 

 gum (kino) veins, with a general resemblance to that of E. coriacea. Foliage fragrant. 



Juvenile leaves almost orbicular to cordate, thin, shortly petiolate, secondary veins spreading 

 or curved upwards, no distinct intramarginal vein. Some leaves measured are 9 cm. long by 7 cm. broad. 



Mature leaves lanceolate, slightly falcate, with a short blunt point, thick, slightly shining, the 

 secondary veins spreading at the base, thence longitudinal and parallel to the midrib. An average leaf 

 is about 13 cm. long and about 4 cm. in greatest width. There are leaves intermediate in shape, thickness 

 and venation between the juvenile and mature leaves. 



Buds remarkably angvdar by compression, the angles almost winged, peduncles about 1 cm. long, 

 convex to flattened, expanded, especially at the top, pedicels absent or very short, the conoid operculum 

 about half the length of the calyx-tube. Filaments cream-coloured, anthers renantherous. 



Fruits polygonal and most of them angled, the angles or ribs persisting until maturity, pear-shaped 

 to sub-globose, sessile or very shortly stalked, walls thick; capsule sunk, 3 or 4-celled. 



Type from Jounama Peaks, New South Wales, Wilfrid Alexander Watt de Beuzeville, Assistant 

 Forester, Forestry Commission, December, 1919. 



RANGE. 



So far it has only been found on peaks in the Mount Kosciusko district of New 

 South Wales. " Near the summit of Mount Jounama, at an altitude of 5,400 feet 

 almost. Joimama is one of what is known as the Bogong Peaks, in the parish of 

 Jounama, county of Buccleuch, about 30 miles south of Tumut. There is a belt of 



