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DESCRIPTION. 



CI. E. scoparia Maiden. 



In Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W. xxix, 777 (1904). 



A slender tree of 30 or 40 feet, with narrow pendulous shiny foliage, and an entirely smooth white bark. 



Juvenile leaves lanceolate, symmetrical, tapering to a very short petiole and to a fine-pointed 

 apex. Equally green on both sides. Strictly opposite ; penniveined, the lateral veins very fine and 

 anastomosing, the principal lateral veins making an angle of about forty-five degrees to the midrib. 

 Entirely glabrous, and the twigs reddish and terete. 



The opposite-leaved character is retained for a considerable period, the leaves becoming thicker, 

 narrower and longer. I have leaves, still in the opposite stage, 3 inches long and A inch wide. In this 

 stage the foliage resembles that of E. amygdalina (particularly the type Tasmanian form) or of E. linearis 

 a good deal. It is seen to have a translucent margin and to be full of oil-dots, emitting a peppermint odour 

 when crushed in the warm hand. 



Mature leaves up to 6 inches long and \ inch broad, tapering very gradually into a fine apex. 

 At the base it tapers less gradually into a petiole of perhaps 1 inch. Texture thickish, the midrib alone 

 conspicuous. 



Buds nearly ovoid when ripe, with a hemispherical or slightly pointed operculum. Calyx 

 tapering into a short pedicel which may be absent. Peduncle may be \ inch. Usually three to seven in 

 a head. 



Flowers opening in longitudinal parallel cells. 



Fruits smooth, usually barely i 3 „- inch in diameter, subcylindrical, rim rather prominent, domed, 

 the valves (indifferently three or four) moderately well exserted. 



Bark very smooth and white. 



Timber pale-coloured, fissile, probably of no special merit. (Op. cit.) 



RANGE. 



On the tops of the highest hills (circa 4,000 feet), in fissures of granite rocks 

 around Wallangarra, occurring on both sides of the New South Wales-Queensland border 

 (J. L. Boorman). 



The type thus comes from northern New England. The name " Wallangarra 

 White Gum " has been suggested for it. 



C. Stuart collected it on New England, probably near Timbarra, where a good 

 deal of his New South Wales collecting was done. 



