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DESCRIPTION. 



CXV. E. cosmophylla F.v.M. 



Trans. Vict. Inst. 32 (1S55). 



Shrubbv, leaves alternate, thick, coriaceous, opaque, glaucescent ovate or falcate- 

 lanceolate, cuspidate-acuminate, thinly veined, destitute of pellucid dots, peduncles 

 short, axillary, angulate, with one-three large flowers on thick pedicels, lid hcmi- 

 spherico-depressed, mutic or umbonate, or conically pointed, tube of the calyx 

 ohconico-bell-shaped, with two indistinct ribs, a little longer than the lid, fruits 

 half-ovate, not contracted at the orifice, valves of the capsule nearly enclosed. On 

 stony places in the Lofty and Bugle Ranges (South Australia). One of the hand- 

 somest species of this extensive genus. 



A little later on it was described by Miquel in the following words : — 



Eucalyptus cosmophylla F. Mull. : ramis cylindricis, ramulis angulatis et compressis, foliis ovato- 

 lanceolatis falcatis acuminafcis, basi oequali vel imequali in petiolum decarrentibus, coriaceiis, margine 

 incrassatis et leviter recurvis, glaucis, supra subnitentibus, subtus opacis, pedunculis crassis angulatis vulgo 

 trigonis tritluris, floribus sessiiibus, calycis tubo obovato vulgo quadricostato basi imbrevissimum quasi 

 pedieellurn eonstricto, operculo semigloboso brevi-acutiusculo quam tubus paulo breviore. 



In jugis montium- Lofty Range ( F. Mull.). 



"Frutex spectabilis foliis 3-5 poll, longis, 1-2 litis. Flores nondura expansi rugulosi cum operculo 

 semipollicares vel longiores, rl. autumno." (F. Mull, mss.) Folia speciminuru suppetentium vulgo pollice 

 angustiora venulis patulis prope marginem unitis subdistinctis, Pedunculi 2 lin. vulgo longi, calycis tubus 

 fere tres lineas ajquans. Antheriu elliptic*. 



Forma leprosula, ramulis tenuioribus angulatis cum pedunculis et inflorescentia scabritie albida 

 evanesceiite obductis foliis longuiscule petiolatia (petioli majorcs pollicares) falcato-lanceolatis acutis vel 

 obtusatis, 3-4 poll, longis, i-1 latis, pedunculis cylindricis vel compressis fcrifloris 2-2i lin. longis, floribus 

 brevissime pedicellatis (pedicel lis ancipitibus), calycis tubo turbinato infundibuliformi. Uressit cum specie. 



(Miq. in Ned. Kruidk. Arch., iv, 131 (1856). 



It was subsequently described by Bentham in B.E1. iii, 225, and described 

 and figured by Mueller in " Eucalyptographia," who speaks of it as " a rather tall 

 shrub, seldom somewhat arborescent." This must be modified, as it sometimes 

 attains the height of a middle-sized tree. Following is a note given me by Mr. 

 Walter Gill, Conservator of Forests of South Australia. 



I came across a tree in the Hundred of Kuitpo which measured 2 feet (J inches through and 11 fuel 

 of a trunk before branching, and then carried a head reaching to quite 50 feet from the ground. 1 have, 

 seen others of a fair size in the same locality, but that was the biggest. 



lie described the bark in the following terms : — 

 The bark on parts of the trunk where the growth is new is usually oE a pinkish grey or bluixh grey 

 -imilar to the lied Gum (E. rostral*), but on the parts where decortication has nol taken place it re e nblea 



in ire the p i'c brown colour an I general leathery app -ir.i:i f a thick linoleum of goo I qii ility. The bark 



comes off in irregular patches and never hangs in strip-;, and f yr the most part the general appearance of a 

 trunk is smooth shiny-grey, purple or pink being the preponderating colour. 



Standing in front of a tre< % on one occasion I described its bark as "smoot.h- 

 flakv." 



