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DESCRIPTION. 



CCCIX. *E. Studleyensis Maiden, n.sp. 



Reputed parents, E. rostrata Sclilecht, and E. ovata Labill. 



An entirely glabrous, erect tree of considerable size, with rough, softisb, friable bark, extending a considerable 

 distance up the trunk and with smooth or ribbony bark beyond. Timber pinkish. 



Juvenile leaves orbicular (say 4 cm. in diameter) to ovoid, thinnish, very shortly petiolate, venation 

 transverse, spreading, the intramarginal vein looped and at a considerable distance from the edge. 



Mature leaves moderately coriaceous, lanceolate, say 13 mm. long and 2-5 mm. in greatest width, 

 venation spreading, the secondary veins making an angle of about 45 degrees with the midrib, the intra- 

 marginal vein distinct from the edge. 



Flowers. — Inflorescence axillary, with umbels bearing up to seven flowers, on rather long slender 

 peduncles and pedicels of half the length; buds smooth, operculum rostrate, of the same length as the 

 calyx-tube, the anthers opening in parallel slits ; the glaud at the back versatile. 



Fruits small (say 7 mm. in diameter), hemispherical or slightly campanulate, rim thin, and with 

 the tips of the capsule slightly protruding from the orifice. 



RANGE. 



Studley Park, Kew, Victoria (A. D. Hardy, Forestry Commission, Melbourne). 

 Mr. Hardy, who has studied this hybrid, and who first brought it under my notice, 

 says that the neighbouring flora in the part of the Park containing the supposed hybrid, 

 i.e., near the top, in contradistinction to the river-flats, on a " red-bed capped spur 

 which falls to the river (Yarra) has stunted but smooth-barked E. viminalis, close 

 to the type, half-way down, in a valley, and has E. rostrata (typical) at the lower end of 

 a little valley, and on a small flat, and at the river bank." There is rough-barked 

 viminalis growing on the river flats. 



AFFINITIES. 



Mr. Hardy has raised seedlings from this reputed hybrid, and says they are 

 reminiscent of E. viminalis, E. rostrata and E. robusta (?). It seems to me that the species 

 closest to it are E. rostrata and E. ovata. E. viminalis seems to be less close, but those 

 who desire to follow up this line of thought may refer to Part XXVIII, Plates 117, 

 118, 119. 



