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DESCRIPTION. 



CCCII. x E. Tenandrensis Maiden, n.sp. 



Reputed parents, E. melliodora A. Cunn., and E. crebra F.v.M. 



Ax Ironbark, with hard timber of a pale brown colour, the foliage of a pale colour, and drying even paler. 



Juvenile leaves not seen in the very earliest stage, but, in the early stage depicted in figs, la, 2a, 

 Flate 217, broadly lanceolate, with a blunt apex, and tapering gradually into a long petiole, say 1 dm. 

 long, by nearly 4 cm. in greatest width, and a petiole of 2 cm. Venation spreading, intramarginal vein at 

 some distance from the edge; the venation not prominently but distinctly triplinerved. 



Mature leaves narrow lanceolate, tapering gradually to the apex and less so to the petiole, 

 slightly falcate, say It cm. long and 1 cm. broad, venation spreading, scarcely visible to the naked eye, 

 the intramarginal vein a little removed from the edge. 



Flowers. — Inflorescence in panicles, buds only seen in a young state, but with pointed opercula. 



Fruits sub-globular, about 5 mm. in diameter, with a rim, the valves well sunk, pedicellate. 



RANGE. 



State Forest No. 166, Tenandra, parish of Baronne, land district of Coonarnble, 

 county of Leichhardt, western New South Wales (Forest Guard Withers, of Gilgandra). 



AFFINITIES. 



1. With E. melliodora A. Cunn. 



This is another species having an affinity to E. melliodora. Its similarities are 

 in the fruits, but to a less degree in the foliage. There is some similarity in the 

 triplinervation, but the juvenile and intermediate leaves are much larger and paler 

 in the new species than in E. melliodora. The new species is an indubitable Ironbark, 

 with pale timber suggest in^ a resemblance to E. melliodora in that respect. 



2. With E. crebra F.v.M. 



The general appearance of the trunk of the tree closely resembles Euc. crebra, but seed capsules appear 

 larger than those of this variety. The sucker leaves are very large, and the leaves somewhat glaucous 

 in tint, thereby differing considerably from Euc. crebra. The timber has a high reputation locally. ( Forest 

 Guard Withers.) 



The timber of E. crebra is red, thus sharply separating it from that of our new 

 species, but in the adult foliage and fruits there is resemblance to the new species. 



