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Mature leaves. — Pale-coloured, often glaucous, of the same colour on both sides, tliickish, 

 lanceolate, often falcate, with a petiole of half an inch and more. Venation as a rule not prominent, but 

 sometimes prominent, penniveined, the intramarginal vein distinctly removed from the edge. 



Flowers. — The buds sometimes angular, the operculum pointed, the calyx-tube often sharply 

 separated from the pedicel, which may be - 5 cm. in length and longer. Flowers up to 7 and even more 

 in the head, with a common peduncle longer than the pedicel. Filaments bi-coloured, often cream-coloured, 

 but more commonly pink to crimson. Masses of dead filaments often adhere to the nearly ripened capsule. 



Fruits. — Turbinate to sub-cylindrical in shape, commonly 1 cm. in length and half that in 

 diameter, with long pedicels. Often tubercula'.e and with a marked ring round the orifice, which is 

 usually caducous as ripeness supervenes. 



Anthers with terminal pores. — For reasons of space in arranging the plates, 

 and because of the incompleteness of material of some species, and also because of 

 the deA r elopment of views as to affinities, it is not convenient, or even possible, at 

 present, to arrange species in this work in strict sequence according to the anthereal 

 or, indeed, any other classification. It may be pointed out, however, that the present 

 species affords the first illustration, amongst species already dealt with, of the anther 

 with terminal pores. 



Such an anther has been described by Bentham as "truncate," {e.g., at 

 BFl. iii, 1S9). 



Eucalyptus anthers, much more varied than usually supposed, and so impor- 

 tant in classification, may recpuire a whole Part of this work for their elucidation, 

 so I cannot exhaust the subject at this place. I will content myself with, the 

 observation that obliquity of attachment of anthers seems to be a character of the 

 terminal-pored series. 



Vernacular Names. — Its aboriginal name is in very common use, and it is 

 also known as "Bed Ironbark " because of its timber, but the timbers of other 

 Ironbarks {e.g., siderophloia and crebra) are also red. For obvious reasons it is also 

 called " Red-flowering Ironbark." Sometimes it is called " Black Ironbark," 

 because of the darkness of its bark. A very common name is " Fat Cake," or 

 "Fat-cake Ironbark." 



The name " Mountain Ash," as applied to E. sideroxylon, has doubtless 

 crept into the Mora Australiensis and other works on Oldfield's authority. Follow- 

 ing is one of his labels, in his own handwriting. Oldfield confused, as regards bark 

 at least, E. sideroxylon with the Mountain Ash {E. Sieberiana), which in the south- 

 east of Xew South Wales has bark a good deal like an Ironbark. 



Ironbark, or Black Mountain Ash of colonists; tree 180 feet ; bark persistent, brittle with dots of 

 gum; dark iron-grey, rough, with prominent ridges; wood very hard, Mountain Hut Range, near Eden, 

 Twofold. Bay. (Herb. Barbey-Boissier.) 



Oldfield added later, "Eucalyptus sideroxylon, A.C.," with which determina- 

 tion I agree. 



Aboriginal Names. — By those of Gippsland it is known as " Terrick." It 

 was called " Easip " by the aborigines of the Yarra (Victoria). " Yirik " 

 (apparently the same as "Yerrick") and "Bvrarawi" are Gippsland aboriginal 

 names for the Victorian Ironbark, as given by Howitt (" Eucalypts of Gippsland "). 



