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Mature leaves ovate to nearly rhomboid-ovate, shortly acuminate, margins undulate, venation 

 rather distant from the edge, subtriplinerved, venation spreading, rather thin in texture. Lamina 2-2J 

 inches long, 1—2 broad, with a peduncle of 3-4 lines. 



Flowers five to seven in the axils of the leaves, the buds tapering gradually into the very short 

 pedicels, the opercula conical and pointed, the anthers very broad, truncate, and sometimes so widely opened 

 as to almost lose the appearance of pores terminally dehiscing. (Here we have evidence of transit between 

 the Eucalypts with truncate anthers and the E. hemiphloia group of anthers.) 



Fruits conoid, often widened at the flat, thin rim, capsule sunk. 



Notes Supplementary to the Description. 



Aboriginal Names. — George Caley (collector for Sir Joseph Banks, 1800-10) 

 gives the name of this species in the Sydney District (Counties of Cumberland and 

 Camden) as " Nettaring " Box or "Berryergro." Later on Sir William Macarthur 

 gives the name "Boorrayero-Gourroo " as the equivalent of the "True or Yellow 

 Box of Camden." It is probable that "Berryergro" and "Boorrayero" are the 

 same name, though what Macarthur's " True or Yellow Box of Camden " is, is 

 uncertain, as herbarium specimens were not always carefully preserved in the early 

 davs. In mv "Forest Flora of New South Wales," vol. i, 131, I have identified a 



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specimen as E. hemiphloia, F.v.M., and the name may prove to be more or less 

 synonymous with "Box." The matter may perhaps be cleared up as additional 

 herbarium specimens collected by Sir William are discovered. 



SYNONYMS. 



1. E. subrotunda, R.Br. 



2. E. polyanthemos, Benth., non Schauer. 



3. E. Fleteheri, R. T. Baker. 



1. E. subrotunda, R.Br. 



I do not know whether Brown described this species. Even if it is a nomen 

 nudum, I think it right to draw attention to it, following the useful example of some 

 contributors to the " Journal of Botany," and others, in drawing attention to names 

 which have been extensively inscribed in important herbaria. The use of such 

 names should, however, be very carefully restricted. 



2. E. polyanthemos, Benth., non Schauer. 



As already indicated, E. Baueriana was, both by Bentham and Mueller, 

 looked upon as a form of E. polyanthemos. It will be observed that in exhibition 

 literature and other publications our " Lignum-vitge " is referred to E. polyanth- 

 emos by other authors as well. 



Howitt's remarks under E. polyanthemos in the top paragraph of page 

 96, Trans. Boy. Soc. Vict., ii (1890), refer to E. Baueriana. 



3. E. Fleteheri, R. T. Baker, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., xxv, 682 (1900). 



This is absolutely typical for E. Baueriana, Schauer. 

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