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Juvenile Foliage. — For an account of it in its earliest stages, see pages 216 and 217. In this 

 stage I am unable to separate the leaves from those of undoubted E. macrorrhyncha ; but when growing 

 in exposed marine situations they take on a form which I now proceed to describe, and which I believe 

 to be quite characteristic of the species. 



Thick in texture, nearly orbicular, almost sessile, with a cordate base. Emarginate, or with a 

 slight apex or none ; margin sinuate or slightly crenate, besprinkled copiously with stellate hairs on the 

 under side, the twig abundantly so ; shining on the upper side. 



The intermediate leaves scarcely changed in shape, but very coriaceous, and shining on both sides. 



Mature Leaves. — They are very coriaceous, oven when grown at a considerable distance from the 

 sea. The leaves usually larger and coarser than those of two other Stringy barks (E. macrorrhyncha and 

 E. eugenioides) ever are, and often very oblique, but not always so. The foliage may be described as 

 " coarse " in its typical form. 



Shining ; equally green on both sides ; venation spreading. 



Buds. — The buds and peduncles are generally somewhat thick and angular or flattened, and 

 contrast with the neatness of shape of those of E. eugenioides and E. macrorrhyncha.* Commonly found 

 with a double operculum. 



Flowers. — The filaments of the anthers sometimes dry dark. 



Fruits. — In consequence of the fruits being sessile, or nearly so, and crowded into heads, these 

 assume a polygonal shape at the base, as if they had been pressed together when in a plastic condition. 

 With this exception, the fruits have the form of a very much compressed spheroid, the horizontal diameter 

 of which is from one and a half times to twice the depth. The fruit is swollen out below the rim, which is 

 sometimes very well denned, and of a red or brown colour. The fruit is sometimes truncate, but more 

 frequently the rim is dome-shaped. There is great variability in the amount of exsertion of the valves. 

 The fruit may be perfectly ripe without exserted valves, but a twig from the same tree may have them 

 exserted. 



SYNONYMS. 



1. E. congesta, E.Br. 



2. E. capitellata, Sm. var. (?) latifolia, Bentli. 



3. E. Baxteri, R.Br., and therefore E. santalifolia, F.v.M., var. (?) 



Baxteri, Benth. 



NOTES ON THE SYNONYMS. 



1. E. congesta, B.Br., Port Jackson, 1801 (R. Brown, Iter Australiense, 1802-5, 



distributed by J. J. Bennett, 1876, under No. 1,727). Named and so 

 labelled, " Eucalyptus congesta," by Brown, but I am not aware that the 

 name has been published. 



2. E. capitelhita, Sm. var. (?) latifolia, Benth. t 



Leaves short, obliquely ovate, very thick and much more straight, the bark deciduous (Robertson). 

 Victoria. Heath, near Portland, Robertson. Possibly a sessile-flowered form of E. santalifolia, but the 

 form of the calyx is more that of E. capitellata, and quite different from that of E. santalifolia, var. 

 Baxteri.— (B.F1. iii, 206). 



* In B.F1. iii, 190, Bentham says of E. capitellata, " operculum very obtuse" ; and of E. macrorrhyncha, " acuminate 

 or conical." A specimen of Eucalyptus cajiiteUata from N. Holland, Dr. Smith, ex-herb. Lambert, in Herb. Cant., i3 

 interesting as one of the very few specimens of this species known to have passed through Dr. (Sir J. E. ) Smith's hands. 

 Strange to say, the only two opercula are pointed, although the specimen undoubtedly belongs to E. capitellata, Sm. 



t See also " Two synonyms of Eucalyptus capitellata, Sm.," by J. H. Maiden, Journ. Bot., 1906, p. 233. 



