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The question as to whether E. alba and E. platyphylla are nonspecific should be 

 investigated once for all, by local botanists, and this would include examination of 

 juvenile leaves and seedlings. In Rockhampton, on trees attributed to E. alba, I found 

 the juvenile (already described), thin and small, and with the mature foliage tending 

 to broadly lanceolate. Mr. S. W. Jackson, 38 miles west of Mackay, found E .platyphylla 

 with very large glabrous juvenile leaves; " on full-grown trees the leaves are much 

 smaller and roundish in shape." Seedlings should be grown and compared. 



" The size of the young leaves is astonishing. I have measured on young shoots 

 leaves 18 inches long and 15 across. Most Eucalypts have some peculiarity in the 

 young state. In this case the leaves are not placed at right angles to the stem, but 

 are very much larger than in any other Eucalypt of the east coast." (Rev. J. E. Tenison- 

 Woods in Proc. Linn. Soc., N.S.W., vii, 332, as E. ■platyphylla). 



" Leaves often 5 inches long by 4 inches across." (W. V. Fitzgerald, Kim- 

 berleys.) 



The leaves of this species are so large and so coarse that a limited trade could 

 be done in them, for painting sketches, and also for use as fans, as I have suggested 

 under E. Foelscheana below. 



9. E. alpina Lindl. 



Paler on the underside, moderately thick, sessile to stem-clasping, emarginate, 

 orbicular, from 1-5 to 4-5 cm. in diameter, the youngest leaves covered with stellate 

 hairs. Intramarginal vein removed from the edge, but rather obscure, the secondary 

 veins forming an angle of about 45-50 degrees with the midrib. 



313. E. altior (Deane and Maiden) Maiden. 



Glaucous, thin, shortly petiolate to nearly sessile, ovate to nearly orbicular, up 

 to 7-8 cm. in diameter, the intramarginal vein not close to the edge, the secondary veins 

 curved to spreading, and making an angle of about 35-45 degrees with the midrib. 

 Figs. 2a and 26, Plate 231. 



160. E. amplifolia Naudin. 



Petiolate or nearly sessile, equally green on both sides, thickish, nearly orbicular* 

 large, intramarginal vein distinct and distant from' the edge. Secondary veins nearly 

 horizontal to looping, and eventually making an angle of about 45-55 degrees with the 

 midrib. Figs. 2a and 4a, Plate 131. 



105. E. angustissima F.v.M. 

 Linear, thickish, venation indistinct. 



177. E. annulata Benth. 



Not seen in a truly juvenile state. Perhaps lanceolate, thickish, venation not 

 distinct. 



