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DESCRIPTION. 



C XVIII. E. acaciceformis Deane and Maiden. 



Id Froc. Linn. Sue. N.S.W., xxiv, 454, with Plate xxxvii (1S£9). 



A large, rather umbrageous tree, attaining several feet in trunk diameter (Mr. A. R. Crawford says 

 " over 6 feet "). 



Vernacular Nam£S. — This is recognised as a "Peppermint" in New England, and sometimes, 

 by way of distinction, : ' Black," or "Narrow-leaved Peppermint." The term "Black" is in allusion to 

 the dark colour of the bark as compared with that of E. Stuartiana. 



Uill'k. — Sub-fibrous, resembling that of E. piperita a good deal. 



"Sometimes very rough and furrowed, almost like an Ironbark." — (A. It. Crawford, in lilt). 



Timber. — Pale reddish. 



Seedling Leaves. — Narrower than the suckers, but otherwise very similar. They are strictly 

 opposite. 



Slicker Leaves. — Pale coloured, lanceolate, symmetrical, always blunt at the apex, which is some- 

 what rounded. The margin is crenulate, a very unusual circumstance in a Eucalypt ; and the leaves are 

 alternate, and not opposite as is the case of norma? Stuartiana. The aver-nge size of the young leaves is 

 If x -jj inch. 



Milt lire Leaves. — Lanceolate, the average size of the leaves being 2| x J inch. The foliage is not 

 glaucous in any part, not even the sucker foliage". Margins often crenulate. Equally green on both 

 sides. The intramarginal vein distinctly removed from the edge; the transverse veins fine, nearly parallel, 

 and at about an angle of 45 degrees with the midrib. 



Buds. — Commonly up to 6 or 7 in the head; stalklets short and angular; stalks usually four or 

 five lines long, very angular or flattened. Operculum a little pointed ; about equal in size to the calyx 

 style short and the stigma dilated somewhat. The anthers opening in parallel slits. 



Frilit.— Small, with short stalklets; the stalks of about twics the length, roundish, bsing only 

 slightl}' compressed. The valves scarcely exserted, and usually only three. Shape of fruit rather more 

 cylindrical than hemispherical, ^ inch broad x J. T inch long. Rim of medium width and nearly 

 horizontal. 



A correspondent (Mr. E. H. F. Swain) states that the inner hark has a 

 distinct odour of turpentine, and hence the tree is sometimes known as Turpentine. 



RANGE. 



It is confined to the New England district, New South Wales, so far as is 

 known at present. 



I wrote as follows in regard to my first experience with this tree : — 



Between Yarrowitch and Tia I got off my horse to examine what appeared to me to be an Acacia 

 of the penninervis group. When I got close .to it I found that it was the young foliage of a Eucalypt.. 

 The plant is a beautiful species in a young state, forming a dense shapely shrub, say 6 or 8 feet in 

 diameter, and different to any other Eucalypt known to me. The young, or sucker foliage, is pale coloured 

 lanceolate, symmetrical, always blunt at the apex, which is sometimes rounded. The margin is crenulate 



