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DESCRIPTION. 



LXXVIJ. E. Clelandi, sp. nov. 



Arbor medioeriter alta, " Blackbutt " note. 



Cortex basi arboris rimosa, major pars trunci et omnes rami teretes. Ramuli glauei. 



Lignum brunneum, durissimum. 



Folia pendula. Folia juvenes ovato-acuminata, glauca, ooncoloria vena? non prominulae prater 

 costam mediam, vena peripherica a margine distincte remota. 



Folia matura angustato — lanceolata, 12 cm. longa, 1'5 cm. lata, glauca, coriacea, ven;e non 

 protninuk-e, lateribus penniveniis, vena peripherica a margine paruin remota. 



Alabastra longis operculis corrugatis, calycis tubus leniter corrugatus v. hevis. 



Operculum calycis tubo diametro leniter excedens. 



Fructus subcylindriei, circiter, *5 cm. longi, valvis leniter exsertis. 



A tree of medium size, one of several known in "Western Australia as " Blackbutt." 



Bark hard-flaky or fibrous-flaky and blackish at butt, the rest of the trunk and all the branches 

 smooth. Branchlets glaucous, as likewise the whole of the saplings. 



Timber cigar-brown, very hard. 

 Foliage more or less pendulous. 



Juvenile leaves ovate-acuminate, pedunculate, equally glaucous green on both sides, venation not 

 conspicuous, except the midrib, intramarginal vein distinctly removed from the edge. 



Mature leaves narrow-lanceolate, 12 x 1*5 cm. being common dimensions, petiolate, dull green, 

 coriaceous venation not conspicuous, lateral veins feather-like, intramarginal vein hardly removed from the 

 edge. 



Buds with long corrugated opercula, the calyx-tube but slightly corrugate or smooth. Diameter of 

 the operculum slightly exceeding that of the calyx-tube at the line of junction. 



Fruits numerous, very glaucous, nearly sessile on a common peduncle of about 1 cm. Sub- 

 cvlindrical in shape, about "5 cm. long, valves slightly exsert. 



I have named it in honour of Mr. A. F. Cleland, Civil Engineer, of Kurrawang, 

 who gave me facilities for travel on the private line of a company with which he is 

 connected, where I collected this and other imperfectly known trees, and of Dr. J. 

 Burton Cleland, nephew of the ahove, who made many botanical investigations in 

 Western Australia before coming to Sydney. 



SYNONYM. 



E. goniantha, Turcz., var. Clelandi, Maiden, in Proc. West. Just Nat. Hint. 

 Soc, iii, 176. 



This slip of the pen would have been corrected had I been favoured with a 

 proof of my paper, but this inadvertence took place through a change in the 

 management of the society. 



