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I liave classified rocoidoil n<itos on the Imvk in JuHin. Fioij. Soc. N.S.W.. xlvii, 

 81. as follows : — 



1. Bark dirty grey, ruifoso. lissurod on Iniiik- and pcisisti-nt on tiie branches. 

 This is the original descriptiua. 



2. ■■ An Ironbark "" (B.Fl., iii. 221, under E. drepuiniphijlla). A mistake arising 

 out of the long-continued confusion with E. drep(t)top/i>/Jla. 



3. Dark persistent rugged l)ark (id. under /:. Icplophlcba). Perhaps this is 

 intended for a free translation of the original description. 



4. '■ Breaking up into numerous small angular pieces in the manner of 

 E. lessellaris " (Eucalyptographia. under E. crehra). 



5. " A box, hardly to be distinguished from E. populifoUa." (Dr. T. L. Bancroft, 



in a letter to me). 



3Ir. R. H. Cambage favoured me with a photograph of the tree, which is a Bos. 

 I hope to reproduce my photographs of typical Eucalyptus barks later. 



SYNONYM. 



E. Sioneana F. M. Bailey in Queemlnnd Agric. Journ.. xxiii, p. 259 (1909) with 

 two plates. 



The t}'pe comes from Stannary Hills, North Queensland (Dr. T. L. Bancroft). 



Mr. Bailey described it as follows :— 



Bastard Gum-leafed Box of the locality. Plates 31 and 32. A large tree with a rather close, hard, 

 persistent greyish bark, about 1 inch thickness. Wood, outer yellow, inner red. Branchlet« anoular, 

 slender, and probably more or less glaucous when fresh. Leaves alternate, thin-coriaceous, G to 101- inches 

 long, from 7 lines to 3 inches wide, broadest and roundly-euneate at the base, the apex blunt or acuminate ; 

 margin* more or less repand. midrib alone prominent, principal parallel transverse nerves distant, but faint 

 like, the reticulate veins, the iutra-marginal nerve always close to the edge of leaf. Oil-dots very numerous 

 and minute. Petioles slender, from i to l\ inch lon'i. Inflorescence axillary, panicles elongated, primary 

 peduncles about 1 inch long, secondary f> lines, irregularly angled, bearing umbels of from two to six flowers, 

 often somewhat crowded at the end of the brauchlets. Flowers, when fully ox])anded, about 1 inch diameter. 

 Operculum thin, hemispherical, or with a very minute point. 8fc:imeiu about 4 lines long, inflected in the 

 bud, all fertile, in three irregular rows. Anthers globose, bursting at the top. Style slightlv exserted, 

 stigma peltate, scarcely larger than the style. Fruit oval-globose, including the pedicellate lower-half 

 about 8 lines long, diameter about -1 lines at the top, the outsi<le portion smoothish, the lower pedicel-like 

 portion angular; rims thin, capsule deeply sunk, the top dome-shape] ; cells four or live, Seed d;\rlv 

 brown. Iiluntlv triangular to thick cuneate and furrowed, about 1 line lonii. 



