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DESCRIPTION. 



XCIX. E. Maideni, F.v.M. 



In Froc. Linn. Soc. JV.S.JF., xiv (or 2nd series, iv), 1020, with two plates 

 (1890). 

 PoLLOWiNG is the original description : — • 



Finally tall ; branchlets slender, quadrangular at the end ; leaves scattered, of rather thick 

 consistence, copiously dotted, narrow-elongate or sometimes broadlanceolar, distinctly or somewhat sickle- 

 shaped ; the petioles from | to 1 inch in length, the lateral veins spreading and slightly prominent 

 underneath, the circumferential vein distinct and rather remote from the edge of the leaf ; young shoots 

 quadrangular, their leaves broadly cordate with a small pointed apex, ojiposite and of a vvhitis^h hue 

 underneath, petioles almost absent ; umbels axillary on angular stalks about i inch long, dilated towards 

 the top, bearing two to nine flowers of rather large size, stalklets none, or exceedingly shoit; calj-x-tube 

 obconical, angular, warty-glandular, especially at the base ; lid depressed hemispherical, suddenly raised 

 in the centre to a thick point, like the calyx-tube warty glandular ; stamens all fertile, inflexed before 

 expansion ; anthers oblong kitlney-shaped ; stigma slightly broader than the style, depressed ; ovulary 

 3 to 5-celled ; fruit \ inch in thickness, nearly hemispherical, its rim broad, convex, at the edge separated 

 from the calyx-tube by an ample furrow ; seeds all without any appendage, the sterile narrower and 

 longer than the fertile seeds. 



SYNONYMS. 



E. Mortoniaiia, Kinney. Descrihed in " Encalyptns," p. 193 (1895), by 

 Abbott Kinney, Los Angeles, Cal., U.S.A. 

 Following is the original description : — 



Leaves long-stalked, scattered, lanceolar or sickle-shaped, long and rather broad ; equally dull 

 green ; stalk compressed ; about length of calyx-tube ; stalklet distinct ; calyx-tube rough, often slightly 

 ridged, top-shaped or truncate-ovate ; border of a tube has the appearance of a pot of some thick fluid 

 boiling over ; lid hemispheric-acuminate, the point or beak of the lid is thick and long ; buds flattened 

 and angular : valves exserted, generally four, or rarely three ; bark sheds in long strips. General 

 appearance suggests EucalypUis globulus; anthers oblong, opening by parallel slits, dorsal gland prominent) 

 style spotted, somewhat dilated toward top, stigma not dilated. 



Grown at Los Angeles, California, U.S.A. It is No. 237,908 in the United 

 States National Ilerbarinm. 



I have figured leaf, bud and fruits at fig. 8, Plate 80. It is one of (he larger 

 fruited forms of B Maideni. 



RANGE. 



B. Maideni is at present only known from south-easterly New South Wales 

 and Eastern Victoria. Additional localities are required to more definitely establish 

 its range. 



