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DESCRIPTION. 



XLIV (a). An Ironbark Box. 



We are now in a position to understand an interesting tree whose closest 

 affinity is, I think, with E. odorata. At one time I thought it to be a new species, 

 and it is one of the forms included by Mueller in his original description of 

 E. Bosistoana. 



I think it will be best to describe it in detail, as if it wei*e a new species, 

 since this is the clearest way of showing what the plant really is. 



A tree of medium size. 



Bill'k. — Scaly-fibrous, rough and thick, persisting only on the lower portion of the trunk. 



Timber. — Pale-coloured (brownish), interlocked. 



Seedlings.— -Linear lanceolate to lanceolate, pale on the under side. 



Juvenile leaves. — Green, not blue, dull, same on both sides, lanceolate, say, 2j inches long by 

 | inch broad. Venation not well defined. Intramarginal vein not far from the edge, and the veins spreading. 



Mature leaves. —Narrow lanceolate, only slightly falcate, 3 to i inches long, with a width of 

 about half an inch. Somewhat coriaceous, bright green when fresh, equally green on both sides, more or 

 less shining. Venation not very prominent, intramarginal vein a little removed from the edge, venation 

 almost spreading, sometimes nearly penninerved. 



Buds.— Somewhat angular, clavate, operculum pointed, and with the calyx tapering gradually 

 into a pedicel nearly equal iu length to that of the bud. The common peduncle about ;' ; an inch. 



Flowers. — Three to eight in the umbel ; seven is a common number. Anthers with very nearly 

 terminal pores, between an odorata anther and those which have strictly terminal pores, as in some 

 Ironbarks. 



Fruits. — About ■{',. inch in diameter and length, the pedicels of equal length and well defined, the 

 common peduncle of twice the length. Truncate ovate, when young slightly urceolate and with a marked 

 rim after the fashion of K. odorata, var. calciculirix ; when fully ripe the rim is absent or scarcely evident. 

 Valves usually five, and well sunk below the orifice. 



RANGE. 



From Inglewood, Victoria, " in a rough rangy situation." (J. Blackburne.) 



I have had much correspondence with Mr. Blackburne in regard to this tree, which 



is the only one he knows. 



I received a similar specimen (but not in fruit), from the late Charles Walter. 

 It was collected in the Wimmera district near Nhill, by D'Alton and himself. 



For further remarks on the Range of allied forms, see below, p. 39. 



