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- DESCRIPTION. 



CXCVIIL E. Moorei Maiden and Cambage. 



In Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W. xxx, 191 (1905). 



Following is the formal description : — 



Syn. E. stellulala Sieb. var. angmtifoUa Benth., B.F1. iii, 201. See also further synonoruy in Maiden's 

 " Critical Revision of the Genus Eucalyptus," v, 129, together with figs. 5a, 5b, and 6 of Plate 25. 



An erect, rather slender shrub of up to 10 or 12 feet in height, with a stem diameter of 2 to 4 inches. 

 It forms dense masses of small area, reminding one somewhat of a whipstick Malice, but lacking the root 

 stockiness of that form of Eucalyptus growth. 



Juvenile leaves narrow-lanceolate, glaucous blue, the plant sometimes flowering while still in the 

 opposite-leaved stage. Leaves profusely dotted with oil-glands. 



Mature leaves. — "Leaves narrow, very thick and smooth, scarcely showing the venation" 

 (Benth.). Shiny on both sides ; the tips of the leaves often hooked. 



Buds arranged in stellate clusters with longish sharply-pointed opercula. Opercula sometimes red 

 in fresh specimens. 



Flowers in dense heads of four or five to ten and even more ; anthers small and reniform. Borne 

 in profusion in the axils of the leaves. 



Fruits in dimse heads, say half an inch in diameter. The common peduncle absent or very short ; 

 the pedicels always wanting. The individual fruits of the size of a peppercorn, smooth (often dotted when 

 fresh), rim narrow, and valves always sunk. 



Hark smooth, with the outer bark peeling off in ribbons. 



Timber pale, nearly white. 



It is named in honour <d the late Charles Moore, for many years Director of the Botanic Gardens, 

 Sydney. 



Besides the figures already referred to, it is figured at D and E, Plate 54, Vol. ii, 

 of my " Forest Flora of New South Wales." 



RANGE. 



It would appear to be confined to New South Wales. The type came from the 

 highest parts of the Blue Mountains (Blackheath). It is more or less plentiful from 

 Wentworth Falls to Mount Wilson. 



The nearest southern locality I know is Talwong, 5 miles as the crow flies from 

 Tallong, but on the opposite side of the Shoalhaven, and said to be rare locally. 



5-8 feet. Currockbilly Mountain, near Braidwood, Mongarlowe near Braidwood 

 (J. L. Boorman). 



