DESCRIPTION. 



CXLIX. E. Baeuerleni F.v.M. 



In Victorian Naturalist vii. 76 (1890). 



Shrubby or arborescent; branchlets rather robust, angular when young: leaves scattered, on compara- 

 tively short petioles, thickly chartaceous, mostly falcate-lanceolar, dark green on both sides, without 

 conspicuous lustre : their venules subtle, rather close, moderately spreading, the marginal one distinctly 

 removed from the edge of the leaf ; oil-dots copious but faint : peduncles axillary, solitary, very short, 

 broadish, compressed, usually three-flowered: pedicels only verv little developed or quite obliterated; 

 tube of the calyx almost semi-ovate or more hemi-ellipsoid, slightlv angular ; operculum somewhat shorter 

 than the tube, its lower part rather depressed, the upper somewhat suddenly ending in a narrow point ; 

 stamens all fertile, filaments yellowish-white except the reddish base, infracted before expansion; anthers 

 pale, nearly ovate, opening by longitudinal slits; style short, stigma hardly broader than the style; fruit 

 somewhat large, nearly semi-ovate, its border narrow, slightly channelled ; valves three or four, arising 

 considerably below the border, semi-exserted, rather pointed; fertile seeds almost ovate, without any 

 appendage, larger than the sterile seeds, flat or angular on the inner side. 



Thinly few- or many-stemmed, flowering at a height of 5 feet but attaining to -10 feet. Bark 

 smooth, brownish outside, the outer layers seceding. Leaves to 7 inches long and to 1 inch broad, generally 

 with a reddish edge. Calyx inside near the margin often red. Style usually red. Fruit often fully one- 

 third of an inch long. (Op. cit.) 



" The bark, which is smooth along the whole length of the stem, even on the largest trees, also 

 appears to be characteristic in its peculiar brown colour, which I have not noticed in any other species yet 

 (he is speaking of southern New South Wales. — J.H.M.). 



The timber is exceedingly hard to cut with the axe, but beautiful to cut with the saw, it is very firm 

 and compact, much harder and much heavier than the timber of E. stricta. growing in or nearest the same 

 situation, also amongst rocks. There can be very kttle doubt, to judge from its situation, from the 

 hardness and compactness of its timber as well as from its weight, that E. Baeuerleni must be of very 

 slow growth. Kino appears to be exceedingly scarce.'' (W. Baeuerlen in a letter, 1890.) 



Tested under my direction at the Technological Museum, the following report 

 was given :— 



" Of a pale colour, shrinks unequally in drying. Is exceptionally heavy and close in 

 the grain. It works remarkably well, and is suggested for use for cogs." 



SYNONYM. 



E. viminalis Labill. : var. Baeuerleni Deane and -Maiden, Proc. Linn. Sec. 

 N.S.W. xxvi, 142 (1901). 



