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DESCRIPTION. 



CCCIII. x E. Peacockeana Maiden, n.sp. 



A tree of medium size, an undoubted Ironbark. " Inner bark and trunk, where contact is made with bark, 

 are a brilliant yellow or saffron in hue." (L. Peacocke.) 



Colour of timber yellowish to the palest brown. 



Juvenile leaves. — The foliage throughout life is sap-green in colour, entirely glabrous and 

 thinnish. The juvenile leaves arc especially thin, narrow lanceolate ;* venation for the most part indistinct, 

 but the secondary veins, while spreading, mostly at an angle of 45 degrees with the midrib. The intra- 

 marginal vein is distinct, and is clearly removed from the margin. 



Matnre leaves linear-lanceolate, scarcely falcate, petiolate, with an average length of say 12 cm., 

 with a width of about 1 cm. 



Flowers, inflorescence axillary, up to five in the head, on slender peduncles of -5 cm. supporting 

 shorter pedicels, buds with conoid opercula, calyx-tubes of equal length, gradually tapering into the 

 pedicels. The anthers have transition forms, varying from the truncate to those with the parallel cells 

 (an indication of the instability of this form.) 



Fruits small, about 5 mm. in diameter, almost pyriform, and with a narrow rim. 



RANGE. 



Elsmore, county of Gough, New South Wales. The type came from the base of 

 a trap or porphyry ridge on Mr. H. E. Hughes' property, Elsmore Station, parish of 

 Elsmore (Lance B. Peacocke, Forest Guard). 



AFFINITIES. 



1. With E. melliodora A. Cunn. 



If the drawings be compared with those of E. melliodora, Plate 61 (Part XIV), 

 it is impossible to fail to note that the resemblances of the mature leaf, fig. 3a, and also 

 the buds and fruits are very great. In two important points the differences are so great, 

 viz., in juvenile leaves, and the bark, that I feel justified in giving the tree a name. 

 There is also some variation in the shape of the anthers that is worthy of note. 



2. With E. erebra F.v.M. 



" No other Ironbark tree of any species for many miles from this one, and no 

 E. erebra for a distance of at least 15 miles." (L. Peacocke.) 



Obviously in a distinct narrow-leaved Ironbark Hke this, we naturally think of 

 E. erebra, but the red timber of that species at once separates the two. There are also 

 differences in the anthers. 



* Fig. 4 of Plate 61, Part XIV, under E. melliodora, shows a "very narrow 'juvenile' leaf, Lachlan River, 

 N.S.W., J. Duff." This is a misprint for " mature " leaf, and it very strongly resembles in outline that of the juvenile leaf 

 of our new species. Duffs specimen is a flowering branch. 



