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DESCRIPTION. 



XLIV (a). An Ironbark Box. 



We are now in a position to nuderstand an interestint^ tree whose closest 

 affinity is, 1 think, with E. odorota. At one time I thought it to he a new species, 

 and it is one of the forms included hj Mueller in his original description of 

 E. Bosistocma. 



I think it will he hest to describe it in detail, as if it were a new species, 

 since this is the clearest \\i\.j of showing Avhat the plant really is. 



A tree of medium size. 



Bark. — Scaly-fibrous, rough and thick, persisting only on the lower portion of the trunk. 



Timber. — Pale-coloured (brownish), interlocked. 



Seedlings. — Linear lanceolate to lanceolate, pale on the under side. 



Juvenile leaves. — Green, not blue, dull, same on both sides, lanceolate, say, 2| inches long by 

 I inch broad. Venation not well defined. Intramarginal vein not far fi'om the edge, and the veins spreading. 



Mature leaves. — Narrow lanceolate, only slightly falcate, 3 to 4 inches long, with a width of 

 about half an inch. Somewhat coi'iaceous, bright green when fresh, equally green on both sides, moie or 

 less shining. Venation not very piominent, intramarginal vein a little removed fiom the edge, venation 

 almost spreading, sometimes nearly penninerved. 



Buds. — Somewhat angular, clavate, operculum pointi'd, and with the calj-x tapering gradually 

 into a pedicel nearly ecjual in length to that of the bud. The connnon peduncle about | an inch. 



Flowers. — Three to eight in the umbel ; seven is a connnon number. Anthers with very nearly 

 terminal pores, between an odorata anther and tliose which have stricily terminal pores, as in some 

 Iron barks. 



Fruits. — About -j^ inch in diameter and length, the pedicels of equal length and well defined, the 

 common peduncle of twice the length. Truncate ovate, when young slightly urceolate and with a marked 

 rim after the fashion of E. odornta, var. calcicultrix ; when full v ripe the rim is absent or scarcely evident. 

 Valves usually five, and well sunk below the orifice. 



RANGE. 



From Inglewood, Victoria, "in a rough rangy situation." (J. Blackhurne.) 



I have had much correspondence with Mr. Blackhurne in regard to tliis ti'ee, which 



is the only one he knows. 



I received a similar specimen (hut not in fruit), from the late Charles Walter. 

 It was collected in the Wimmera district near Nhill, by D'Alton and himself. 



For further remarks on the E-ange of allied forms, see below, p. 39. 



