DESCRIPTION. 



CLXXXIX. E. clavigera A. Cunn. 



Published by Schauer in Warper's Repertorium ii, 926 (1843). 

 Following is a translation of the original description : — 



Branches and branchlets short, rigid, spreading, hispid, terete, glabrous or somewhat hirsute. 



Leaves alternate, oblong or ovate, petiolate (my italics — J.H.M.), obtuse, penninervcd, reticulately 

 veined, glaucescent, imperforate. 



Panicles lateral and terminal (the rhachis contracted) formed of umbels containing about five 

 flowers ; pedicels elongated, striate, on the upper side gradually enlarged into an obconical calyx-tube. 



Operculum finely membraneous, very little depressed, scarcely umbonate. 



In the north-west coast of New Holland, Careening Bay. Port Nelson. A. Cunn. Herb. No. 242 (1820). 



Then Bentham in B. Fl. iii, 250, described it in English, giving E. polysciadia 

 F.v.M. as a synonym. In the " Eucalyptographia " Mueller figured it and gave an 

 account of the species, but the form he chose is not quite typical. He says that it 

 flowers while still a shrub. 



I have a note onE. clavigera in Proc. Roy. Soc. N.S.W., XLVII, p. 77 (1913) — 



This angophoroid species was described from Careening Bay, North-west Australia, just south of 

 York Sound. The original description says the leaves are petiolate, obtuse and glaucescent. 



Bentham (B.F1. iii, 250) says they are sessile or nearly so, while Mueller (" Eucalyptographia ") 

 says much the same, but in greater detail 



In its typical form the leaves have a hispid or scabrous surface, but they vary a good deal in length 

 of petiole, width and length of leaf and vestiture. 



Mr. W. V. Fitzgerald (MSS) describes it in North-Wcstern Australia as "A tree of 20-40 

 feet, trunk to 15 feet, diameter 1-1 J feet; bark somewhat rough and greyish on the trunk, soon peeling off 

 in plates, leaving the undersurface white and smooth ; timber brownish-red, fairly hard and tough ; 

 filaments white to pale-yellow. A " Cabbage Gum." 



The juvenile leaves are very large, see figure 5, Plate 152, indeed amongst the 

 largest in the genus, stem-clasping, sessile or nearly so, and more or less clothed with 

 hairs. They may be a foot long and 7 inches wide. 



The mature leaves are oblong or ovate and petiolate or sessile. (The original 

 description says petiolate, and Bentham sessile or nearly so.) As development proceeds 

 the leaves become more or less pointed (lanceolate) and it is this form of leaf that 

 Mueller, in the " Eucalyptographia," has wholly depicted. 



The species sometimes flowers in the juvenile or opposite leaved stage. The 

 specific name is given because of the club-shaped buds. 



