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DESCRIPTION. 



LXI. E. paniculata, Sm. 



In Tram. Linn. Soc. iii. 287 (1797). 

 Following is the original description : — 



Operculo hemisphaerico submutico, calyce angulosa, umbellis subpaniculatis terminalibus. This 

 differs from the last in its angular calyx and less pointed operculum, as well as being smaller in all its 

 parts. The umbels do not form so coasiderable a compound cluster of corymbs, but are collected about the 

 top of the branches into a small panicle, the lowermost of them being axillary. 



My specimens were gathered at Port Jackson by Mr. David Burton, and I received them from Sir 

 Joseph Banks' Herbarium. 



(In the Cambridge University Herbarium there is a specimen labelled "New 

 Holland, Governor Phillip, ex herb. Lambert"). 



The species is more adequately described in Bentham's Flora Australiensis, 

 iii. 211, and Mueller's Eucalyptogra'phia. 



Notes Supplementary to the Description. 



Varieties. Bentham recognises some varieties :— 



1. var. fasciculosa. This is E. fasciculosa, F.v.M., a valid species, although 



Mueller {Eticalyptographia) concurred in its suppression. 



2. var. angtistifolia. " Leaves narrow and thin, as in some varieties of E. 



crebra." Umbels loose, paniculate, conical. Outer stamens anantherous. 

 New South Wales " narrow-leaved Ironbark," Woolls. This is figured at 

 fig. 21, plate 57. George Caley (collecting in the Sydney district, 

 1800-10) called this form " Mogargro." 



3. var. (?) conferta. " Flowers still smaller, like those of E. gracilis. Leaves 



rather short and broad. W. Australia. Drummond (3rd collection ?) 

 Suppl. No. 9." I have not been able to see this specimen, but would 

 suggest that it is a form (gracilis) of E. calycogona. See p. 81, Part III. 

 At all events it is not E. paniculata, which does not occur in Western 

 Australia. 



Timber, Sfc. — At the risk of encroaching a little on the scope of my " Forest 

 Flora," I give a note on this valuable tree from the pen of the late Augustus 

 Rudder, forest ranger, whose district was chiefl.y from Port Stephens to the Manning. 

 He was, in my opinion, one of the best informed forest rangers we ever had. 



Perhaps of all our hardwoods, on account of its great strength and durability, and comparative 

 freedom from defects, this may be justly considered to rank first, more especially in its use as piles (where 

 there is no cobra) and girders, and railway sleepers, or in the construction of all bridge-work, or wherever 

 great transverse strength is required, but it has the disadvantage of being very combustible, and is subject 

 to the ravages of w.hite ants (termites). This timber varies a good deal in quality, according to soil and 



