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DESCRIPTION. 



CCIIL E. nitida Hook. f. 



In Fl. Tas. i, 137, with tab. xxix (1860). 



The brief original Latin translation is quoted at Part VI, p. 158 of the present work, 

 and following is a translation : — 



A fairly tall tree with hanging branchlets, leaves narrow-lanceolate, long-acuminate, coriaceous, 

 shining, with varnished diverging veins. Peduncles strong, many-flowered. Flowers short, somewhat 

 sessile, calyx shortly clavatc or obconical, .operculum short and broad, fruits sessile, small, somewhat globose, 

 the mouth contracted or somewhat dilated, the margins thick or narrowly flat. 



(Gunn's 808 is quoted as the type, and some specimens of this number are quoted 

 at Part VI, p. 163 of the present work.) 



Following is a description of the juvenile leaf shoots taken from my paper in 



Proc. Roy. Soc. Tas., p. 84, 1918. 



Opposite or s'.ightly alternate, sessile, orbicuhr, ovate to elliptical lanceolate, interspersed with 

 spreading veins on both sides, somewhat rough, branchlets angular or compressed, red-brown, tub jrculate, 

 with prominent oil-glands, internodes distinctly dilated at the base of the leaves, cause.1 by the fusion 

 of the petioles. 



Figures. — In addition to the excellent plate of the type already quoted, fig. 2, 

 Plate XII, illustrating my paper in Proc. Roy. Soc. Tas., 1918, which depicts the broad 

 juvenile foliage, may be referred to. 



SYNONYM. 



E. amygdalina Labill. var. nitida Benth. (B.F1. hi, 203). 



RANGE. 



It is confined to Tasmania and New South Wales, so far as we know at present, 

 but one would expect to find it either in south coastal localities in Victoria, or in 

 sub-alpine areas in that State. 



Tasmania. 



So far as we know at present, it is confined to the northern and western parts of 

 the island. 



See pages 158 and 163 (Part VI) for particulars as to some Tasmanian localities. 

 In addition, see Maiden and Cambage in Proc. Roy. Soc. N .S.W . xlviii, 416 (1914). 



