' DESCRIPTION. 

 CCCLXVII. E. Staerii Maiden. 



In Joum. Boy. Soc., N.S.W., lix, 197 (1925). 



Synonym : E. marginata Sm. var. Staerii Maiden, Journ. Roy. Soc, N.S.W., xlvii, 

 230 (1913), and Part LI, p. 13, Plate 210. 



E. Staerii Maiden MSS. is described (except the Latin) in Kessell and Gardner's 

 " Key to the Encalypts of Western Australia," p. 110 (1924), with my concurrence, 

 and it will be sufficient to transcribe it with some alterations and additions. 



Arbor erecta 40-50' alta, trunco robusta ca 2' diametro, ramulis patentiusculis; 

 cortice cinereo brunneo crasso longitudinaliter sulcato, parte exteriore in stratis latis 

 secedente, ligno pallido-flavo; foliis junioribus tenuibus sessilibus ovatis pallido- 

 viridibus, costa conspicua; foliis maturis crassis rigidis ovato-lanceolatis vel lanceolatis, 

 11 cm. longis, 4 cm. latis, vena peripherica a margine crassato remota; pedunculis 

 axillaribus ca 2J-3 cm. longis planis parte superiore dilatata umbellam 4-8 floram in 

 pedicellis ca 5 mm. longis, ferentibus; calycis tubo obconico vel angusto-turbinato, 

 operculo obconico, antheris reniformibus, fructibus globosis ca 2-5 cm. diametro, 

 margine prominente capsula leniter depressa, valvis obtusis inclusis. 



" Albany Blackbutt." An erect tree of 40-50 feet with a stout trunk and rather 

 spreading branches. Trunk to 30 feet and 24 inches diameter. Bark dark greyish- 

 brown, thick and longitudinally fissured, the fissures more or less whitened or yellowish- 

 grey, the outer bark shedding in broad flakes not as stringy as those of the Jarrah 

 (marginata), but not friable as the Blackbutt (patens) bark. It is intermediate between 

 the two in character and appearance. Timber pale, yellowish. Branches crooked. 

 The inner flakes of bark reddish. 



Juvenile leaves not seen in quite the youngest state, ovate, thin, sessile, pale 

 green, with conspicuous midrib and purple-red nerves, the secondary veins spreading 

 and irregular, the intramarginal vein distant from the edge. Obtuse and roughly 

 2 inches (5 cm.) long by lj inch (3 cm.) wide. Mature leaves ovate-lanceolate to 

 lanceolate, thick and rigid, on very angular branchlets and with flattened twisted 

 petioles, acuminate, pale green, with a thick yellowish midrib and fine roughly parallel 

 spreading veins; the intramarginal one at a distance from the thickened margin. 

 Peduncles axillary, about 1 inch (2-5 cm.) long, stout and flattened, widened near the 

 top, supporting an umbel of 4-8 rather large flowers on fairly long angular pedicels. 

 Calyx-tube obconical or narrowly turbinate, tapering into the pedicel. Operculum 



