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DESCRIPTION. 



CXV. E. cosmophylla F.v.M. 



Trans. Vict. lust. 32 (1855). 



Shrubby, leaves alternate, thick, coriaceous, opaque, glaucescent ovate or falcate- 

 lanceolate, cuspidate-acuminate, thinly veined, destitute of pellucid dots, peduncles 

 short, axillary, angulate, with one-three large flowers on thick pedicels, lid hemi- 

 spherico-depressed, mutic or umbonate, or conically pointed, tube of the calyx 

 ohconico-bell-shaped, with two indistinct ribs, a little longer than the lid, fruits 

 half-ovate, not contracted at the orifice, valves of the capsule nearly enclosed. On 

 stony places in the Lofty and Bugle llanges (South Australia). One of the hand- 

 somest species of this extensive genus. 



A little later on it was described by Miquel in the following words : — 



Eucalyptus cosmophylla F. Mull. : ramis cylindricis, ramulis angulatis et compressis, foliis ovato- 

 lanceolatis falcatis acuminatis, basi requali vel imequali in petiolum decurrentibus, coriaceiis, margine 

 incrassatis et leviter recurvis, glaucis, supra subnitentibus, subtus opacis, pedunculis crassis angulatis vulgo 

 trigonis tritloris, floribus sessilibus, calycis tubo obovato vulgo quadricostato basi imbrevissimum quasi 

 pedicellum constricto, operoulo semigloboso brevi-acutiusculo quam tubus paulo breviore. 



In jugis montium Lofty Range ( F. Mull.). 



"Frutex spectabilis foliis 3-5 poll, longis, 1-2 latis. Flores nondum expansi rugulosi cum operculo 

 semipollicares vel longiores, il. autumno." (F. Mull, mss.) Folia speciminura suppetentium vulgo pollice 

 angustiora venulis patulis prope marginem unitis subdislinctis, Pedunculi 2 lin. vulgo longi, calycis tubus 

 fere tres lineas ;equans. Anthene ellipticae. 



Forma leprosula, ramulis tenuioribus angulatis cum pedunculis et inflorescentia scabritie albida 

 evanescente obductis foliis longuiscule patiolatis (petioli majores pollicares) falcalo-lanceolatis acutis vel 

 obtusatis, 3-4 poll, longis, h-l latis, pedunculis cylindricis vel compressis trifloris 2— 2i lin. longis, floribus 

 brevissime pedicellatis(pedicellis ancipitibus), calycis tubo turbinato infundibuliformi. Crescit cum specie. 



(Miq. in Ned. Kruidk. Arch., iv, 134 (1856). 



It was subsequently described by Bentham in B.F1. iii, 225, and described 

 and figured by Mueller in " Eucalyptographia," who speaks of it as "a rather tall 

 shrub, seldom somewhat arborescent," This must be modified, as it sometimes 

 attains the height of a middle-sized t.'ee. Following is a note given me by Mr. 

 Walter Gill, Conservator of Forests of South Australia. 



I came across a tree in the Hundred of Kuitpo which measured 2 feet G inches through and 14 feet 

 of a trunk before branching, and then carried a head reaching to quite 50 feet from the ground. I have 

 seen others of a fair size in the same locality, but that was the biggest. 



He described the bark in the following terms : — 



The bark on parts of the trunk where the growth is new is usually of a pinkish grey or bluidi grey 

 similar to the Red Gum (E. rostratt), but on the parts where decortication has not taken place it re e nbles 

 mire the pa'e brown colour and general leathery appsarance of a thick linoleum of good quality. The bark 

 comes off in irregular patches and never hangs in strips, and for the most part the general appearance of a 

 trunk is smooth shiny-grey, purple or pink being the preponderating colour. 



Standing in front of a tree on one occasion I described its bark as " smooth- 

 flakv." 



