DESCRIPTION. 



CXIII. E. cinerea F.v.M. 



In Bentham's Flora Australiensis iii, 239 (1866). 

 Following is the original description : — 



A moderate-sized tree, with a whitish-brown persistent bark, somewhat fibrous, the foliage more or 

 less glaucous or mealy white. 



Leaves opposite, sessile, cordate ovate or ovate-lanceolate, obtuse or acute; mostly 2 to i inches long 

 (or narrow lanceolate, which are alternate-and much longer. — J. ELM.). 



Peduncles axillary or in short terminal corymbs, terete or nearly so, each with three to seven 

 (or more. — J.H.AI.) pedicellate flowers. 



Calyx broadly turbinate, abDut 2 lines diameter or rather more. 



Operculum conical, shorter than the calyx-tube. 



Stamens 2 to 3 lines long, inflected in the bud : anthers small but ovate, with distinct parallel 

 cells. 



Ovary convex in the centre. 



Fruit semiglobose or subglobose-truncate, about 3 lines diameter, often slightly contracted at the 

 orifice, the rim thin, the capsule very slightly sunk but the valves protruding. (B.Fl. iii, 239.) 



Normal form. — The normal form was long believed to Le, as far as leaves 

 are coac3rne:l, as defined by Bjntliam, as figure:! by Mueller in Eucalyptographia 

 as E. pulverulenta Sirns, and best known to New South Wales botanists as the 

 " Argyle Apple." Many years ago I found narrow lanceolate leaves on the Argyle 

 Apple, thus giving the foliage a distinctly dimorphic shape it was not previously 

 believed to possess. To summarise, it has bark, fibrous ; timber, reddish, of inferior 

 value for economic purposes as a rule, but it would appear that the timber of variety 

 noza-anglica is the most durable of that of any of the forms. Further data are 

 required as to the durability of the timber of all the forms. 



a. Flowers in threes. 



b. Leaves mostly broad. 



c. Tet lanceolate also in flowering branchlets. 



Varieties. 



1. multiflora, var. nor. (See p. 7.) 



2. nova-anglica, var. nov. (See p. 9.) 



SYNONYMS. 



1. E. pulverulenta F.v.M., non Sims. (See p. 3.) 



2. E. Stuartiana secunda of F.v.M. (See p. 1.) 



3. E. pulverulenta F.v.M. var. lanceolata Howitt. (Seep. 4.) 



4. E. Stuartiana F.v M., var. eordata Baker and Smith. (See p. 5.) 



