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DESCRIPTION. 

 CDXXIV. E. Bottii Blakely. 



Jour. Boy. Soc, N.S.W., LXI, 163 (1927). 



Aebor admodum magna, cortice caulis aspero plus minus rugoso, cortice ramorum glabro ; folia juvenilia 

 subglauca, lanceolata vel oblique Ianceolata; folia matura falcato-lanceolata, undulata; gefnmse parva, 

 rostratse; antheree reniformes; capsnhe ovoidse, glandulari-rugosfe, 9x8 mm. 



A moderately large tree, 50 to over 100 feet high, with rough, more or less deeply furrowed bark on 

 trunk, smooth on the branches; juvenile leaves subglaucous, lanceolate to obliquely lanceolate; adult 

 'eaves falcate-lanceolate, undulate ; buds small, rostrate ; anthers reniform ; fruit ovoid, glandular-rugose 

 9x8 rrrm. 



Juvenile leaves opposite for 3-6 pairs, slightly glaucous and somewhat rough with numerous 

 oil-glands, lanceolate to obliquely lanceolate, shortly petiolate, very thin, dark green above, pale beneath. 

 4-7 cm. long, 2 J— 4 cm. broad ; venation moderately distinct on both surfaces, but more prominent beneath > 

 lateral veins diverging at an angle of 50-60° with the midrib, and uniting with the intramarginal vein a 

 short distance from the edge. 



Intermediate leaves alternate, slightly more glaucous than the juvenile leaves, and particularly 

 the internodes which are glaucous to pruinose, green above, much paler beneath, broadly elliptical to 

 obliquely-elliptical, or the Upper ones obliquely-lanceolate, undulate with a short, terete glandular petiole ; 

 9-16 cm. long, 5-9 cm. broad, venation distinct, the lateral veins rather distant, rising at an angle of 

 40-60° with the midrib ; intramarginal vein very irregular ; in some places it is close to the margin, in others 

 10 mm. from it, and when the latter there is a rudimentary or very fine secondary intramarginal vein 

 between it and the minutely crenulated margin. 



Adult leaves alternate, petiolate, falcate-lanceolate to obliquely-lanceolate, undulate, somewhat 

 thick, coriaceous, smooth on both surfaces and with a very fine obscure venation, 6-16 cm. long, 1-3 cm., 

 broad, the midrib slightly raised beneath, fine])' canaliculate above ; lateral veins very fine, radiating at 

 an angle of about 30-40° with the midrib ; intramarginal vein a short distance from the slightly revolute 

 margin. Petioles often twisted, glandular-rugose, convex beneath, channelled above. 



Inflorescence axillary usually in simple umbels, but sometimes in short panicles. Umbels usually 

 dense, the common peduncle compressed, 10-17 mm. long, bearing seven to over twenty pedicellate flowers. 

 Buds pedicellate, small, rostrate, the calyx-tube obconical, thin minutely glandular-rugose, about 4 x 

 3 mm.; operculum conical but usually acutely rostrate up to 4 mm. long, striate on the inside; pedicels 

 about 5 mm. long. Anthers reniform, the white filaments all fertile. Style subulate, more than twice 

 the length of the calyx-tube. 



Fruit pedicellate, forming ball-bike masses up to twenty in the head, ovoid, glandular-rugulose. 

 the small orifice surrounded by a rudimentary disc, the very small valves enclosed or sometimes flush 

 with the edge of the disc, 9x8 mm. Pedicels subterete, rugose, 4-5 mm. long. 



Timber with a rather thick sapwood, pale brown when freshly cut, slightly gummy, moderately 

 hard and with a more interlocked grain than the timber of E. piperita. It appears to be a superior timber 

 to that of the latter species. 



Named in honour of Harold Bott, my friend and companion on many botanical 

 excursions during the last fourteen years. 



