DESCRIPTION. 



CCCXLL E. collina W. V. Fitzgerald n,sp. 



Following is the original description : — 



Arborescent, branchlets more or less angular, terminal shoots and inflorescence mealy white ; suckers 

 invested with bristly ferruginous hairs, the adult foliage glabrous and shining; leaves scattered or alternate, 

 lanceolate, falcate, acuminate, papering into the petioles, firm and rigid, the veins slightly ascending, the 

 intramarginal one close to the edge, all much concealed; sucker leaves alternate, ovate, obtuse, shortly 

 petiolate ; flowers large, pedicellate, in umbels of 4-6, several together and forming short corymbose 

 pedunculate panicles ; pedicels terete, stout, shorter or slightly longer than the calyx ; calyx-tube turbinate, 

 lid depressed conical, much shorter and not broader than the summit of the tube, the sutural line irregular; 

 stamens inflected in the bud, very numerous ; anthers narrow-ovate, with distinct parallel cells dehiscing 

 longitudinally; style short and thick; fruit broad-cylindrical, smooth, ribless, not constricted t at the 

 summit, rim narrow ; capsule deeply sunk ; valves 4, included. 



Height 40-60 feet, trunk to 30 feet, diameter 1-1 J feet; bark persistent, smooth, greyish-white or 

 white, mottled with dark grey; timber dark brown, hard, and very tough; mature leaves 4-8 inches long; 

 petioles -J— 1 inch; sucker leaves mostly 2-2-|- inches long; pedicels 1-1-J- inches long when in fruit; calyx- 

 tube \-\ inch long, and often above \ inch broad at the summit; filaments white; fruit mostly \\ inches, 

 long f inch diameter; ripe seeds not seen. 



Affinity. — E. maculata Hook. 



Mr. Fitzgerald also states that the young shoots are often conspicuous on the 

 trees, both large and small, and can be seen a great distance away owing to their silvery 

 whiteness, which is a distinctive character of the plant, and also that the trees have 

 the habit of throwing out the young growth all over, and the short, silvery young 

 shoots are usually seen above or exceeding the fruiting branches. These are, of course, 

 mature leaves for the most part. At the same time, the " juvenile leaves " are' 

 covered with bristly ferruginous hairs, like some others of the Corymbosse. 



This remarkable silveriness above referred to is caused, not by hairs, but by a 

 waxy substance which, in course of time, decomposes into scurfy matter. It is 

 evidently the same as that which, as a rule, produces simple glaucousness. 



E. collina is nomen nudum until to-day, in spite of the fact that in The Western 

 Mail, of Perth, Western Australia, of 2nd June, 1906, Mr. Fitzgerald published a 

 photograph of a flowering and fruiting twig on a reduced scale, with the following 

 note: — "There it (E.miniata) is associated (with) a new Bloodwood {Eucalyptus collina 

 W.V.F.), a moderately tall tree, yielding an excellent timber. This species, which 

 frequently forms forests of fair extent, is easily recognised by the branchlets and often 

 the leaves appearing as if covered with frost." He says that the fruits are not in situ, 

 having been placed where they are shown for the convenience of the photographer. 



