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DESCRIPTION. " 



CLXXX VII. E. intertexta R. T. Baker. 



In Proc. Linn. Soc, N.S.W., XXV, 308 (1900) with a Plate. 



A large tree, up to 80 feet high, and 3 feet or more in diameter. 



Bark smooth nearly to the ground ; butt-bark hard and persistent, extending a few feet up the 

 trunk; the smooth bark has patches or spots, and varies much in colour, from a brownish or all shades 

 of a lighter gray, to sometimes quite chalky white. 



Young or sucker leaves similar in shape to mature ones, but at times somewhat broader. 



Mature leaves lanceolate-acuminate, mostly under 6 inches long, of a pale yellowish, or sometimes 

 bluish colour on both surfaces, not shining; lateral veins spreading, but not prominent, and almost quite 

 hidden : intramarginal vein close to the edge. 



Buds on slender pedicels from 4-6 lines long. 



Flowers numerous, mostly in a terminal panicle. 



Calyx small, pyriform. 



Operculum hemispherical or conical, sometimes shortly acuminate. Ovary flat-topped. 



Anthers all fertile, cells opening by terminal pores. 



Fruits variable in shape, sometimes cylindrical, with the thin rim incurved, whilst at other times 

 plular in form with a constriction below the rim, 2-3 lines long as well as broad. (Original description.) 



For " Anthers all fertile, cells opening by terminal pores," at p. 309 of the original 

 description, the following should, in my view, be substituted : — 



The anthers open in parallel slits, with the gland at the top. The filament 

 being at the extreme base sometimes gives them, in the dried specimens, the appear- 

 ance of being terminal pored anthers. 



Mr. Baker's figure of the buds shows the opercula to be about half the length 

 of the calyx-tube and to diminish from the junction of the calyx-tube. This latter 

 character is observable in all species which have a double operculum to each bud — a 

 character more common than was at one time supposed. 



When the buds are small, with a double operculum on every bud, the appearance 

 may be that as suggested in Mr. Baker's figure, but only under those circumstances. 



Mr. R. W. Peacock, who, at Coolabah, N.S.W., had the tree all round him, called 

 it a Coolabah, and it is one of three trees which are candidates for the honour of giving 

 the name to the township. He also called it a Red Box, being of the class of Boxes, 

 including the smoother barked forms of E. polyanthemos and E. melliodora. 



