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ON TWO SPECIES OF EUCALYPTUS, UNDESCRIBED 



OR IMPERFECTLY KNOWN, FROM EASTERN 



AUSTRALIA. 



By R. T. Baker, F.L.S., Curator, Technological Museum, 



Sydney. 



(Plates xxiii.-xxiv.) 



Eucalyptus carnea, sp.nov. (Syn. E. umbra ~R T. Baker, partim). 

 (Plate xxiii.) 



A tall tree, attaining sometimes a height of 100 feet, with a 

 •dark -coloured " stringy bark " which runs right out to the 

 branchlets. Abnormal leaves opposite, sessile, cordate, ovate, 

 •acuminate, thin, pale-coloured on the underside where the 

 venation is more pronounced, upper surface shining, over 3 inches 

 broad, and sometimes 6 inches long. Normal leaves lanceolate- 

 falcate, varying in length up to 8 or 9 inches, and in breadth 

 from under 1 inch up to nearly 3 inches, and often very oblique 

 at the base, the larger leaves especially so, coriaceous, pale-coloured 

 on both sides. Venation well pronounced in the abnormal, but 

 not quite so distinct in the normal leaves; the intramarginal vein 

 is well removed from the edge, and the lateral ones are distinct, 

 oblique and spreading. 



Inflorescence occurs mostly in terminal panicles, but occasion- 

 ally in axilliary peduncles. Calyx turbinate, gradually tapering 

 into the flattened pedicel. Operculum hemispherical, shortly 

 acuminate. 



Fruits hemispherical, about 3 lines in diameter, rim thin, 

 valves sunken. 



Technology. 



From a technological point of view its greatest interest lies in 

 its oil content, although the timber and bark are of some market- 

 able value. 



