EUCALYPTUS BAILEYANA. 



p. V. M., fragmenta phytograpbife Australise xi. 37 (1S78). 



Finally tall ; branchlets angular towards tlie summit ; leaves scattered, of thin consistence, 

 sicMesliaped-lanceolar, somewhat shining, of equal green on both sides, copiously dotted; their 

 veins moderately spreading, very thin, the circumferential vein somewhat removed from the edge ; 

 umbels lateral and axillary, solitary or some short-paniculate and terminal, with 5-10 or rarely 

 3-4 flowers ; stalks slightly angular ; stalklets short and thick ; tube of the calyx almost semi- 

 ovate, not angiilar, not much longer than the nearly hemispheric lid, both not shining ; stamens 

 all fertile, inflexed before expansion ; anthers broadly cordate, opening by divergent slits ; stigma 

 not dilated; fruits rather large, globular-urnshaped, Z-celled ; margin of the orifice thinly com- 

 pressed; valves deltoid, slightly exserted or hardly extending beyond the orifice ; seeds without 

 any appendage. 



On poor somewhat sandy ridges near Moreton-Bay with E. Planchoniana ; Bailey. 



A tree attaining fully 150 feet in height, the stem rising up to 50 feet, with a diameter 

 seldom exceeding 4 feet. Bark fibrous, persistent as well on the branches as on the stem, the 

 inner portion tough and yellowish. Wood also of a yellow tinge, according to the discoverer, 

 Mr. F. M. Bailey, through whose active zeal and gift for observing discrimination we are made 

 acquainted during later years with so many additional data concerning the rich vegetation of 

 Queensland. Mass of foliage dense and shady. 



From the above note it will be observed, that this is one of the Stringybark-trees, though 

 very distinct from any others of that group, namely E. acmenoides, E. capitellata, E. marginata, 

 E. macrorrhyncha, E. obliqua, E. piperita, E. Stuartiana, E. tetrodonta, to which may be added 

 the typical E. amygdalina with persistent bark, irres|)ective of some smaller species, which cannot 

 properly be counted among timber-trees. The wood is tough and durable and sought for various 

 implements, such as tool-handles, also for posts and rails. 



E. Baileyana diifers from E. Bowmanii in the following respects : the leaves are more 

 shining, of a darker green, of a thinner consistence, more distinctly and less divergently veined, 

 ■while the copious oil-dots are very visible ; the flowers are smaller and distinctly provided with 

 stalklets, whereas the stalks of the umbels are not broadly compressed ; the lid is much shorter 

 and not semiovate-conical ; the anthers are broader, indicating an approach to the Eenantherse, 

 thus the slits of their cells are evidently divergent and not almost parallel, while the terminal 

 gland of the anthers is more obvious ; further the style is thinner and the stigma smaller. The 

 comparison of these two species cannot be extended to its carpologic characteristics, the fruit of 

 E. Bowmanii still remaining unknown, the latter species not yet having been refound anywhere 

 in Queensland since the death of the lamented finder. The tree from Port Denison, alluded to 

 under E. Bowmanii by Bentham (flora Australiensis iii. 220) belongs to E. drepanophylla. 

 The last-mentioned species (F. M., in Bentham's flora Australiensis iii. 221) when compared with 

 E. Baileyana has narrower leaves of a paler hue, with more numerous and also more spreading 

 veins, without easily discerned pellucid oil-dots ; the stalklets are thinner ; the anthers are 

 roundish, with nearly parallel cells like those of E. Bowmanii, while the fruit is totally difi'erent, 

 being small, semiovate, with half-emerging valves. 



Tlie only other species, with wliich E. Baileyana could perhaps be confused, is E. trachyphloia 

 (F. M., in the Journal of the Linnean (Society iii. 221 ; Bentham, flora Australiensis iii. 221 ; F. M., 

 fragmenta phytographite Australiaj xi. 43) ; its leaves are paler beneath and their veins very 



