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DESCRIPTION. 



CCXVII. E. dichromophloia F.v.M. 



In Journ. Linn. Soc. iii, 89 (1859). 



Following is a translation of the original : — 



A tree, with somewhat terete branehlets, leaves alternate, moderately petiolate, somewhat thick, 

 falcate or elongate-lanceolate, narrowed into a long point, not shiny, faintly veined, imperforate, umbels 

 paniculate, 5-7 flowered, peripheral vein close to the margin, partial peduncles angular, longer than the 

 pedicel, buds ovate, the same length as the pedicel. Calyx-tube slightly longer than the hemispherical 

 rounded operculum. Fruit urceolate-ovate or subglobose, ecostate, quadrilocular, valves deltoid, deeply 

 included, seeds fertile, winged. 



Found in the less fertile or sterile parts of Australia, everywhere intra-tropical. Flowers in April 

 and May. 



A moderate-sized or large tree, the top layer of the bark smooth and subpapyraceous, cinereous, 

 slowly breaking away from the interior red portion. Leaves 3-8 inches long, 6-12 lines broad. Peduncles 

 4-8 lines long. Pedicels angular. Flowers, not yet opened, 3 lines long. Fruit 4-6 lines long, slightly 

 contracted ; capsule finally coming away from the calyx-tube. 



This lack of adnation of capsule to calyx- tube, while not characteristic, is well 

 developed in this species. 



Bentham (B.F1. iii, 257) described the species as follows :— 



A moderate-sized or large tree, the bark smooth, ash-grey, at length separating from the inner reddish 

 bark (F. Mueller)'. Leaves in the imperfect specimens very long lanceolate, narrow, thick with numerous, 

 Very fine, close, parallel veins, the intramarginal'one scarcely distant from the edge. Umbels several' 

 flowered, forming loose, terminal, corymbose panicles. Young buds obovoid, with a very short obtuse 

 operculum ; perfect flowers unknown. Anthers of E. corymbosa. Fruit urceolate-globose, with a contracted 

 neck, smooth, attaining sometimes \ inch diameter, but mostly much smaller ; the rim thin, the capsule 

 sink. Perfect seeds broadly winged on one side. 



Mueller did not figure E. dichromophloia in his " Eucalyptographia," but he 

 enumerated the species in both his First and Second Census, in spite of Luehmann's 

 note to me: ''Baron von Mueller did not consider E. dichromophloia as a species, and was 

 doubtful even of E. terminalis." This is simply evidence of the difficulty Mueller 

 experienced in separating the species in question from others. 



Note that Mueller originally described the " top layer (presumably the outer 

 layer) of the bark as smooth and subpapyraceous, cinereous, slowly breaking away from 

 the interior red portion." Mr. R. H. Cambage, at p. 316, has referred to the red bark 

 in this species. Mueller's use of the term subpapyraceous, would indicate transition in 



