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DESCRIPTION. 



CLXXIII. E. accedens W. V. Fitzgerald. 



In Journ. W. A. Nat. Hist. Soc, i, 21 (May, 1904). 



Arborescent, attaining a height of 60 feet, with a stem diameter of 2 feet, the trunk crooked ; branches 

 slender, terete, or nearly so ; bark smooth, persistent, greyish or white, splashed or blotched with a darker 

 colour. Leaves alternate, ovate to lanceolate, falcate or straight, obtuse or shortly acuminate, thick, 

 rigid, pale-green on both sides, under 4 inches long and obliquely rounded into a petiole of \ inch long, 

 veins very fine, numerous, parallel, oblique, inconspicuous, the marginal one almost or quite at the edge. 

 Peduncles axillary or lateral, solitary or rarely two together, terete, or slightly angular, |-1 inch long, each 

 bearing an umbel of 5-8 flowers. Calyx-tube broadly-frurbinate or semi-ovate, about 3 lines long, tapering 

 into a thick terete or scarcely angular pedicel of 1 line long. Lid hemispherical, very obtuse and rounded 

 at the apex, yellowish, about half as long as the tube. Stamens about 3 lines long ; filaments much 

 inflected in bud, white or pale yellow; anthers oblong or elliptical wth parallel distinct cells. Ovary very 

 conical. Fruit turbinate or obovate, 3J-4 lines long, 2| lines diameter, slightly or not at all contracted at 

 the summit, rim convex and thin, capsule sunk ; valves usually four, deltoid, obtuse, the points on a level 

 with the rim or scarcely exserted. Seeds angular, not winged, fertile ones greyish, f line long and broad, 

 sterile ones brown, \ line broad. 



Locality— Near Pingelly, November, 1903. W.V.F. 



Remarks. — The species is vernacularly known as " Spotted Gum," and occurs on rising ground, 

 usually associated with Mallert (E. occidentalis Endl.) Analysis of the bark has proved it to contain nearly 

 45 per cent, of tannic principle. 



I believe that the juvenile foliage, shown in outline on the E. redunca plate 

 in the " Eucalyptographia," really belongs to E. accedens. 



The author has not described the juvenile foliage, but with the following descrip- 

 tion, and the figure 8, Plate 141, and figure 1, Plate 142, it should be quite clear. 



Coarse, thick, glaucous, of the same colour on both sides, pedunculate, cordate 

 at the base, cordate or orbicular in shape, intramarginal vein at a considerable distance 

 from the edge, the secondary veins roughly parallel and making an angle of about 

 45 deg. with the midrib. 



A specimen kindly supplied by Mr. C. E. Lane-Poole, Conservator of Forests 

 of Western Australia, is pale reddish brown when fresh, hard, and interlocked. Like 

 most timbers, it darkens somewhat with age. 



RANGE. 



It is confined to Western Australia. It is a species whose range is uncertain 

 yet, because it has been often confused with E. redunca. At the present time we know 

 it from Pingelly and York to the neighbourhood of Perth, and additional localities 

 will doubtless follow. I have a fragment of a specimen from between the Greenough 

 and Irwin Rivers, and it should be searched for between those rivers and Perth. 



