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DESCRIPTION. 



x CCCLIX. E. Taylori n.sp. 



Assumed parents — E. erebra F.v.M., and E. eoniea Deane and Maiden. 



A tree of medium size, usually 60 to SO feet high, with a diameter of 1-i to 2|- feet. Bark of trunk rough, 

 " half Ironbark, half Box, but more Box-like on the branches," the branches, say, about 1 inch in diameter 

 nearly smooth, the timber pale reddish, hard and heavy. 



Juvenile leaves thiekish, sub-glaucous on both sides, the lower ones very shortly petiolate, the 

 upper ones with slightly longer petioles, oblong-lanceolate, obtuso to shortly acute, 3 to 6 cm. long, 1-5 to 

 2 em. broad, with. sfjghJfcfy undulate margins, the mtrarnarginal vein somewhat distanf from the edge, the 

 secondary veins very fine, making an angle of 30-10 degrees with the midrib ; t/ie midrib reddish and more 

 prominent underneath. 



Hatlire leaves thin, petiolate, narrow-lanceolate to falcate-lanceolate, sometimes tapering into a 

 long point, 10 to 12 cm. IflPg, 1 to 2 cm. broad, the intramarginal vein yery close to tlie edge in the narrow 

 leaves, and moderately distant from the edge in the broad ones, the secondary veins very fine, making an 

 angle of 30-40 degrees with the midrib. 



Inflorescence paniculate, the umbels 3 to S in number, the buds varying from 5 to 9 in the 



umbel, clavate, the peduncle flattened, pedicels short terete ; calyx-tube funnel-shaped, gradually tapering 



mm. long, the ojjerculum very small, somewhat acute, conoid, starter than the 



(•alyx-t-; 'in round pores ov slits, the lilamejit is ajfc the base or nearly 



- the bark. Floral disc forming a thin dispal liijipg 1<> the inside pi the calyx-tube. 



Fruit '""Hoi'! pr cylindrical-conoid, i.e., taprring into the pedicel, truncate, the valves well enclosed, 

 u ram. lung, 3 nun. in diameter. Capsular disc slightly thick™ than the floraj disc, not exceeding phe 

 -taminal ring, which is presi ] t on the ripe fruit. 



The tvpe is Spring Bidge State Forest, Gunneclah district, New South Wales (Assistant Forester 

 talker Taylor). 



RANGE. - 



Only known from New South Wales at present, but it will probably be found 

 further south (in New South Wales) and also to extend into Queensland. 



Single specimens are to be met with in the Gunneclah district wherever 

 Ironbark (E. erebra) and Box (E. conica) are growing together, aud throughout; the whole 

 of the Pilliga Scrub areas. In the latter places single trees are to be met with in the 

 Ironbark-Pine-(G'«?/^/is)-Box type of forest, and are easily distinguished from the true 

 Ironbarks and Boxes. The bark on the trunk of these trees usually partakes of the 

 Ironbark character, whilst the branches generally show a pronounced Box type. These 

 characteristics vary in some specimens, some trees being distinctly Ironbark-like in 

 appearance, and in others partaking more of the Box type. 



