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DESCRIPTION. 

 CCCLXXI. E. biangularis, Simmonds, n.sp. 



Arbor altitudinem 70' vel raro 100' attinens; cortice arido decidente, trunco inde 

 albo maculatove. Foliis juvenilibus cordatis sessilibusque; foliis adultis petiolatis; 

 punctis oleariis plurimis et insigniter pellucidis. Umbellis axillaribus; pedunculo 

 \" ad f" longo tres sessiles flores ferente. Operculis depressis; antheris cuneatis 

 paralleliter fere aperientibus. Cupulis immaturis valde compressis et angulatis. Cupulis 

 maturis §" longis §" latis, plerumque biangularibus; orificio exterius anulato intus in 

 formam crateris depresso, valvis parvis et omnino inclusis. 



Species or hybrid growing in five widely separated localities in New Zealand, 

 as follows :— Teddington, Banks Peninsula, tree 100 feet high with widely spreading 

 branches and thick bole; Botanic Gardens, Christchurch, near river, tree 80 feet high 

 with bole 2 feet in diameter; Invercargill, vigorous young tree; Auckland Isthmus, 

 three trees now about 40 feet high ; Bulls, two or three young trees. 



Dead bark non-fibrous, deciduous from stem and branches. 



Leaves of seedlings and stump sprouts cordate and sessile; from Christchurch 

 tree glaucous, from other trees clear green. 



Leaves of adult trees petiolate, about 6 inches long, with numerous remarkably 

 pellucid oil dots. 



Peduncles axillary, about \ inch to § inch long, compressed and angular, each 

 carrying normally three flowers. Buds with low cap, sessile, compressed so that the 

 two outer ones become strongly biangular. Stamens inflexed in bud; anthers cuneate 

 and versatile, cells opening with nearly parallel slits. 



Ripe seed-cups goblet-shaped, two outer ones strongly biangular, | inch to 

 | inch wide by f inch deep, double rimmed with outer rim sharp and prominent; orifice 

 crater-like; valves 3 to 5, small and deeply sunk. Buds and seed-cups from Christ- 

 church tree glaucous, from all other trees brown; seeds without appendage, many 

 not fertile. 



The Teddington tree and the Christchurch tree both produce seedlings showing 

 transit to E. globulus; but both are growing in close proximity to fruiting specimens 

 of E. globulus, so that the state of the seedlings may be due to hybridism. The 

 Auckland trees were grown from seed imported from Tasmania under the name of 

 E. urnigera, and so far there is nothing about them to suggest that they are hybrids. 

 The wide distribution of these several trees and their great difference in age forbid 



