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DESCRIPTION. 



CXCVII. E. ferruginea Schauer. 



In Walters' Reperlorium ii, 926 (1843). 



Following is a translation of the original : — 



The whole (plant) rusty-scaly, branches and branchlets rigid, spreading ; leaves coriaceous, opposite, 

 oblong-lanceolate, shortly jsetiolate, caudate at the base, semi-amplexieaul, acuminate, penninerved, smaller 

 veins removed (from the edge), undulate; the terminal panicle many-flowered, branches opposite, rather 

 long and, with the peduncles, somewhat compressed; umbels 6-8 flowered; the young buds black, verrucose, 

 covered with a white tomentum ; the mature calyx-tube somewhat large, obovate-cyathiform, rounded at the 

 base, shortly pedicellate, white and testaceous, variable (i.e. smooth on the margin and hairy in the centre); 

 operculum coriaceous, depressed, slightly umbonate, much punctate, occupying the vertex of tho calyx-tube. 

 Ferdinand Bauer collected it in New Holland. 



Bentham (B.F1. iii, 251) described it in the following words:— 



A" moderate-sized tree, with a rough persistent dark grey bark (F. Mueller), the young branches and 

 often the foliage more or less rusty-pubescent, or the branches hispid with a few stiff hairs or bristles, but 

 sometimes quite glabrous. Leaves large, often i to 5 inches diameter, sessile, opposite, cordate, orbicular 

 or oblong, mostly obtuse and sometimes undulate. Flowers rafcker large, the umbels in a dense terminal 

 corymbose panicle, or in one specimei gle umbel' axillary. Peduncles and pedicels short, terete. Cali/.i;- 



tubc very broadly campanulate, G to 8 lines diameter. Operculum broadly conical, shorter than the calyx- 

 tube. Fruit ovoid, when perfect about 1 inch lung and f inch diameter, contracted towards the orifice, the 

 rim narrow, the capsule (h',.]il\- sunk. Seeds wingocL F. MhielL in Jourtu. Linn. Soc. iii, 95 ; E. confertifiorfi, 

 F. Muell. I.e. 96. 



Mueller does not deal with it in the " Eucalyptographia." 



The juvenile leaves are sessile, the mature leaves appear at first sight to be so, 

 but are on a short pedicel usually covered by the very cordate base of the leaf. 



Notes in regard to the leaves and fruits of this species will be found at page 217, 

 and also at page 211 (under E. setosa). 



SYNONYMS. 



1. E. undulata F.v.M. 



2. E. confertiflora F.v.M. 



3. E. floribunda F.v.M. non Huegel. 



1. E. undnlata F.v.M. in J own. Linn. Soc. iii, 95 (1859). 



(The editor put it under E. ferruginea Schauer, with the foot-note, " Sent as 

 E. undnlata n.sp. by Dr. Mueller, but evidently the same as Schauer's plant.-— A.B^. 

 (A. Black.).) 



