DESCRIPTION. ' 



. CCLX XXVIII. E. striaticalyx W. V. Fitzgerald. 



In Journ. W.A. Nat. Hist. Soc, i, 20 (May, 1904). 

 Following is the original description : — ■ 



Arborescent, attaining a height of 40-50 feet or more with a stem diameter of 1£ feet; bark dark 

 grey, moderately thick, lough, persistent on the lower portion of the trunk, upwards thin and decorticating 

 in small sheets, that on the cylindrical blanches and branchlets whitish and smooth. Leaves alternate, 

 conspicuously petiolate, ovate -lanceolate to lanceolate, straight or falcate, shortly acuminate, thick, almost 

 coriaceous, 3-6 inches long, veins numerous, very fine, divergent, circumferential one close to the edge, 

 dull-greyish on both sides. Peduncles axillary or lateral, solitary, or forming short terminal panicles through 

 leaf -suppression, terete or hardly angular, erect or spreading, h— § inch long, each bearing an umbel 6-8 

 moderate-sized flowers. Calyx-tube turbinate, in bud above 3 lines long, smooth or scarcely striate, tapering 

 into a short pedicel, lid hemispherical, terminating in a straight obtuse beak, bioader than and as long as 

 or longer than the tube, with 10-15 longitudinal raised lines ; stamens pale-coloured, inflected in the bud ; 

 anthers broadly oblong, with parallel distinct cells. Ovary shortly conical in the centre. Fiuit obovoid, 

 about 5 lines long, 3-3-J- lines across, faintly and irregularly striate, slightly or not at all contracted at the 

 summit, border thin, concave ; valves usually 4, subulate, the points included. Seeds brown, irregular, 

 without appendages, fertile ones 1 line long, f line broad, sterile, about as long as broad. 



In the same Journal, iii (January, 1911), I wrote : — 



I found this species at Milly's Soak, near Cue, one of the type localities, and following are the notes 

 taken by me on the spot : 



E. striaticalyx is far less numerous than E. microtheca, and is on the edge of the microtheca belt. 

 Called " York Gum " by local people, but they are free-and-easy with their names for trees. It was plentiful 

 on a donga. Stumps are now seen 12-18 inches in diameter between Milly's Soak and Jack's Well, and it 

 was firnrerly extensively cut for firewood, but the neighbourhood of Milly Was made a recreation reserve 

 and the remaining trees were saved. 



Tree of 30-40 feet. Bark dark grey -or blackish, flaky, thin, yellow inside, covering the whole of the 

 trunk and part of the branches. 



Timber very hard, pinky pale brown or pale brown when fresh. Rather erect in habit. Would be 

 called a Black Box in Eastern Australia. Neither Mr. Fitzgerald nor I found flowers, but I collected timber 

 and juvenile leaves, which he did not. 



