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A tree, with strong terete branchlets. with, puberulous, scabrous, glabrescent foliage, leaves opposite, 

 rather thick, ovate-oblong, subsessile at the cordate base, spreading, undulate, obtuse or acuminate, opaque, 

 imperforate, prominently and remotely penniveined, indistinctly reticulately veined, peripheral vein 

 indistinct and distant from the margin, .... Fruits large, globose-ovate, ecostate, contracted at the 

 mouth, capsule finally freed from the calyx-tube, valves deltoid, included, seeds with long wings. 



Habitat. — In elevated stony places (sandstone tableland), not rare through north and north-west 

 Australia. Flowers in spring. 



A medium-sized tree, with a wrinkled dirty ash-coloured bark, persisting all over the trunk. Leaves 

 at the most 3-4 inches long, at the lower portion about H inch broad, covered with yellowish veins, rather 

 scabrous wijh raised dots. Fruits about 1 inch long to f inch broad, smooth at the mouth. The open 

 valves scarcely touching the edge of the calyx-tube. Seeds all winged ; the wings of the fertile ones ovate 

 or deltoid, often 3 lines long. Cotyledons foliaceous and convolute. Albumen none. Radicle short, 

 cylindroid below. 



This species approaches E. ferruginea and E. floribunda. 



2. E. eonfertiflora F.v.M. in Journ. Linn. Soc. iii, 96 (1859). 



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A tree, branchlets terete and, as well as the leaves, scabrous, leaves opposite, ovate, or ovate-lanceolate, 

 acute, subcordate at the base, stem-clasping, sessile, prominently penninerved, veined, opaque, imperforate, 

 lateral umbels axillary and the terminal ones crowded in a many-flowered head, the pedicels terete, two or 

 three times longer than the calyces and peduncles; calyx -tube obconical, exangular, three times longer 

 than the smooth, patella-shaped, apiculate operculum, fruit campanidate. 



Hab. — From the Victoria River to the Gilbert, in dry grassy places. 



Flowers in October and November. 



A medium-sized scrubby tree. The outer layer of bark dirty and ash-coloured, persistent on the 

 lower part of the trunk, separating in small pieces, the upper part of the trunk and the branches smooth and 

 whitish, the young branchlets also hoary-brown. Leaves mostly 2J-4 inches long, 1 J — 2 inches broad, 

 sometimes acuminate, the oil-bearing glands not conspicuous, the primary peduncle solitary, short or very 

 short, resolved into many secondary somewhat terete unequal peduncles. Pedicels slender, 4—1 inch long. 

 The calyx-tube 3-4 lines long. Operculum shiny, a little narrower than the tube. 



It is very closely allied to E. ferruginea Schauer. 



3. E. floribunda F.v.M. non Huegel. (Journ. Linn. Soc. iii (1859), 96.) 



Same as E. eonfertiflora, a name substituted by E. Kippist, who attached the 

 following note : — " Sent by Dr. Mueller under the name of E. floribunda. •which is 

 pre-occupied; the E. floribunda of Hiigel being evidently cjuite distinct. — (K.K.)." 

 (E . floribunda Hiigel, in Lehm. PI. Preiss. i, 128, is a synonym of E. marginata Sm.) 



There is a specimen labelled " Eucalyptus floribunda Tausch, Ferd. Bauer, 

 Herb. Bauer 1 ' in Herb. Vindob., which is E . ferruginea Schauer. 



RANGE. 



The type came from an island in the Gulf of Carpentaria. The original 

 description says " Ferdinand Bauer collected it in Xew Holland." Mueller found the 

 same species from the Victoria Paver to the Gilbert Paver (under E. eonfertiflora). 

 entham adds, Copeland Island, Xorth-west Australia, Allan Cunningham. 



