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DESCRIPTION. 



E. macrorrhyncha, F.v.M. 



Mueller (Census, &c.) quotes " First General Report of the Government 

 Botanist of Victoria, 1853," as the authority for this name, It is there spelt as I 

 have given it. The species was not, however, described until Vol. iii of the " Flora 

 Australiensis " (1868). See B.F1. iii, 207, and Mueller's " Eucalyptographia." 



This, in its typical form, is a very easily recognised species. The buds are, 

 when fully developed, large, rhomboidal in longitudinal section, with pointed 

 operculum, and the pedicels are long, so that the flowers and fruits form loose 

 heads. 



Vernacular Names. — It is usually known as " Stringybark " merely, but by comparison with 

 E. eur/enioides as " Red Stringybark." According to Howitt, it is known as " Mountain Stringybark " in 

 Gippsland, a name to which in this State the other Stringybarks have also some claim. It is the common 

 Stringybark of the north-eastern districts of Victoria, and appears to be quite absent from the coast 

 districts of New South Wales. 



Juvenile Foliage (figured in the Eucalyptographia). — The leaves may be described as follows : — 

 Elliptical, margins undulate and irregularly toothed. Small tufts of hairs along the margin. The 

 twigs, midribs and veins, and even the soft tissue more or less besprinkled with stellate hairs, the twigs 

 abundantly so. 



Mature Leaves. — Usually 4 to 6 inches long and 1 to l\ inches wide. Rather coriaceous, equally 

 green on both sides. Venation spreading, prominent, particularly the midrib. Intra-marginal vein at 

 some distance from the edge. Twigs and leaf-stalks angular. 



Bni.3. — Ths39 are strongly pedicellate, and the edge of the calyx tub 3 forms a prominent ring, 

 while the operculum is often curved ; acuminate and often lengthened out into a point. In the matter of 

 shape one cannot help likening them to those of E. rostrata,, which, however, are small in comparison. 



The buds are usually more or less angular, and in the typical form are very angular. In extreme 

 forms the angularity disappears. 



Fruits. — The&e vary somewhat in shape and size, but, owing to the long pedicels, the prominent 

 edge to the rim, and the domed top, they can usually be recognised. 



They vary as to amount of doming, so that eventually, in some specimens, the rim is obliterated. 

 Valves well exsert. 



The diameter of typical fruits is not much more than § inch at its greatest (rim) width. 



A particularly large-fruited form has been collected by Mr. R. T. Baker in the Rylstone district, 

 where trees with fruits of ordinary size are also found. Large fruits (not so large as the Rylstone ones) 

 are also found with the ordinary ones at Howell (J.H.M.). 



Timber. — This seems in every respect to resemble that of E. capitcllala. It is the common 

 Gold-fields Stringybark, and its timber is brown. 



