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DESCRIPTION. 



CL. E. scoparia Maiden. 



Iu Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W. xxix, 777 (1904). 



A slender tree of 30 or 40 feet, with narrow pendulous shiny foliage, and an entirely smooth white bark. 



Juvenile leaves lanceolate, symmetrical, tapering to a very short petiole and to a flue-pointed 

 apex. Equally green on both sides. Strictly opposite; penniveined, the lateral veins very fine and 

 anastomosing, the principal lateral veins making an angle of about forty-five degrees to the midrib. 

 Entirely glabrous, and the twigs reddish and terete. 



The opposite-leaved character is retained for a considerable period, the leaves becoming thicker, 

 narrower and longer. I have leaves, still in the opposite stage, 3 inches long and A inch wide. In this 

 stage the foliage resembles that of E. amygdalina (particularly the type Tasmanian form) or of E. linearis 

 a good deal. It is seen to have a translucent margin and to be full of oil-dots, emitting a peppermint odour 

 when crashed in the warm hand. 



3Iature leaves up to 6 inches long and i inch broad, tapering very gradually into a fine apex. 

 At the base it tapers less gradually into a petiole of perhaps 1 inch. Texture thickish, the midrib alone 

 conspicuous. 



Bllds nearly ovoid when ripe, with a hemispherical or slightly pointed operculum. Calyx 

 tapering into a short pedicel which may be absent. Peduncle may be J inch. Usually three to seven in 

 a head. 



Flowers opening in longitudinal parallel cells. 



Fruits smooth, usually barely ft inch in diameter, subcylindrical, rim rather prominent, domed, 

 the valves (indiiT'Ti-ntly three or four) moderately well exserted. 



Bark very smooth and white. 



Timber pale-coloured, fissile, probably of no special merit. (Op. cit.) 



RANGE. 



On bhe tope of bhe highest hills (circa 4,000 feet), in fissures of granite rocks 

 around Wallangarra, occurring on bol h sides of the New South Wales-Queensland border 

 (J. L. Boorman). 



The type thus comet from northern New England. The name 'Wallangarra 

 White Gum" has been suggested for it. 



C. : ] it on New Kh"I:mh1. ]irnl>;;b!y near Timbarra, where a good 



deal "t in N( South \Yal"s collecting was done. 



