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DESCRIPTION. 



E. macrorrhyncha, F.v.M. 



Mueller {Census, &c.) quotes " First General Ecport of the Government 

 Botanist of Victoria, 1853," as the authority for this name, It is tliere spelt as I 

 have given it. The species was not, however, deserihecl until Vol. iii of the " Elora 

 Australiensis " (18S6). See B.Fl. iii, 207, and Mueller's " Eucalyptographia." 



This, in its typical form, is a very easily recognised species. The huds are, 

 when fully developed, large, rhomboidal in longitudinal section, with pointed 

 operculum, and the pedicels are long, so that the flowers and fruits form loose 

 heads. 



Veriiacular Names. — It is usually known as " Stringybark " merely, but by comparison with 

 £. eugenioides as "Red Stringybark." According to Howitt, it is known as "Mountain Stringybark" in 

 Gippsland, a name to which in this State the other Stringybarks have also some claim. It is the common 

 Stringybark of the north-eastern districts of Victoria, and appears to be quite absent from the coast 

 districts of New South Wale.?. 



Juvenile Foliage (figured in the EucaluptograpMa). — The leaves may bo described as follows: — 

 Elliptical, margins undulate and irregularly toothed. Small tufts of haira along the margin. The 

 twigs, midribs and veins, and even the soft tissue more or less besprinkled with stellate hairs, the twigs 

 abundantly so. 



Mature Leaves. — Usually -1 to 6 inches long and 1 to 1| inches wide. Rather coriaceous, equally 

 green on both sides. Venation spreading, prominent, particularly the midrib. Intra-marginal vein at 

 some distance from the edge. Twigs and leaf-stalk.s angular. 



Bu[ls. — Ths^e are strongly padicell.itp, and the edge of the caly.K tubj forms a prominent ring, 

 while the operculum is often curved ; acuminate and often lengthened out into a pjint. In the matter of 

 shape one cannot help likening them to those of E. rostrcita, which, however, arc small in comparison. 



The buds are usually more or less angular, and in the typical form are vi'ry angular. In extreme 

 forms the angularity disappears. 



Fruits. — These vary somewhat in shape and size, but, owing to tlic lung pedicels, tlie prominent 

 edge to the rim, and the domed to]i, they can usually be recognised. 



They vary as to amount of doming, so that eventually, in some specimens, the rim is obliterated. 

 Valves well exsert. 



The diametei' of typical fruits is not much more than § inch at its greatest (rim) width. 



A particularly large-fruitcd form has been collected by Mr. R. T. Raker in the Rylstono district, 

 where trees with fruits of ordinary size are also fmmd. Large fruits (not so 1 :irg.> as the Rylstone ones) 

 are also found with the ordinary ones at Howell (J.H.M.). 



Tiinbei". — 'I'his se i in every respect to resemble that of E. rapite/litUi. It is Ihe common 



Gold-fields Stringybark, ami its timber is brown. 



