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DESCRIPTION. 



C'XCVI. E. setosa Schauer. 



In Walpers' Repertorium ii, 926 (1843). 



Following is a translation of the original : — 



Schauer MSS. 



Blanches glabrous and branchlets terete, these with the peduncles and the calyx glaucous and 

 hispid with reddish hairs. 



Leaves crowded together, opposite, decussate, oval, sessile, cordate at the base, somi-amplcxicaul 

 obtuse, limcronate, glaucous-pruinose. 



The terminal corymb* few-flowered. 



Operculum depressed-hemispherical, acuminate, the umbo almost hidden amongst dense erect hairs. 



Collected by Ferd. Bauer in New Holland. 



It was described by Bentham (B.F1. iii, 254) as follows : — 



A small or moderate-sized tree, with a smooth ash-grey bark (R. Brown), the branchlets and 

 inflorescence more or less hispid with rust-coloured bristles. 



Leav6S opposite, sessile, cordate orbicular and obtuse or ovate and almost acute, rarely above 

 2 inches long. 



Umbels shortly pedunculate, several-flowered, forming short, terminal, rather loose corymbose 

 panicles. 



Pedicels often longer than the calyx. 



Calvx-tube obovoid, often slightly eight-ribbed, about 3 lines long, more or less covered with bristles. 



Operculum conical, shorter than the calyx-tube, often bearing a few bristles. 



Anthers ovate, parallel-celled. 



Ovary fiat-topped, the style not dilated. 



Fruit urceolate-globular, much contracted at the top, hard and woody. | to | inch diameter, the rim 

 narrow, the capsule sunk. Perfect seed* large, broadly winged. 



Later it was figured and described by Mueller in the " Eucalyptographia," tire 

 leaves there shown being more pointed than in the type. 



Tree ifp to K) feel ; trunk up to t5 feet: diameter 1 foot; bark persistent on stem and branches, 

 dark-grey, tough; timber reddish, moderately hard and tough; filaments white. In sandy soil. A 

 " ( 'abbagc Gum." (W. V. Fitzgerald, speaking of the north West Australian tree.) 



The wood of this small or moderate-sized tree is of a dark brownish colour, subject 

 to gum- veins, therefore only fit for using in the log; hard, strong and durable. 



"It is a low shapely spreading tree about 30 to 40 feet high, and seems closely related to the 

 Angophoras, having the general appearance of A. subvelutina, while its broadly-winged seeds show its affinity 

 with the Bloodwood group of Eucalyptus. It is remarkable for its rusty hispid branchlets and inflorescence 



