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DESCRIPTION. 



XCVII. E. megacarpa, F.v.M. 



In Fraffm. ii, 70 (lSGO-61). 



It was originally described by Mueller from a specimen cultivated at Sydney under 

 the name "Blue Gum," together with non-cultivated specimens from South- 

 western Australia. 



Bentham then described it in B.Fl. iii., 232. 



It is figured and described in the " Eucalyptographia," and there is a note on 

 it at p. 14 of the " Forest Resources of Western Australia." 



Notes supplementary to the Description. 



A medium-sized tree known as "Blue Gum." Mueller saw trees 3 feet in 

 diameter near the Gordon Hiver. 



Bark like a White Gvim, or perhaps like a Grey Gum {E. inincfala of eastern 

 New South Wales) to some extent, that is to say, white and smooth, with patches of 

 bark of sand-paper like texture, which peel off and present a smooth surface, which, 

 in its turn, roughens and exfoliates. Bark rather thick, wood not hard, with large 

 gum veins (brown kino), and brownish towards the heart. A gouty, useless timber 

 tree. 



Juvenile foliage (now described for the first time) elliptical ovate, commonly 

 4 inches long by half that width, apex blunt, very shortly stalked, texture not thick, 

 intra-marginal vein very distantly removed from the edge, lateral veins roughly 

 parallel and at about an angle of 80° to the midrib. 



Anthers long, opening in parallel cells, with a large circular gland at the 

 back, showing a little at the tojx Filaments glandular. 



The fruits attain a size oP over 1|- inch in diameter. The tips of the valves 

 forni blunt cusps. 



RANGE. 



It is confined to Western Australia. 



Following are localities quoted l)y Mueller in the original description : — 

 Wilson's Inlet, Franklin (Frankland) lliver. Deep lliver, all localities close to each 

 other a few miles west of King Georsje's Sound. 



