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LXXXIV. E. aggregaia Deane and Maiden. 



SYNONYM. 



E. Rydalensis Baker and Smith. 



In " Research on the Eucalypts," ii, 48 (1920), with a figiu'e of a 

 cluster of four fruits. 



The description is as follows (only in English, with none in Latin, as required by 

 botanical law) : — 



" A medium-sized tree reaching a height of 40-50 feet, and a diameter of 18 

 inches ; with a thick and spongy, rough decorticating bark, extending well up the tree. 

 Abnormal leaves shortly petiolate or sessile, ovate to broad-lanceolate, opposite or 

 alternate. Normal leaves lanceolate to broad-lanceolate, more or less shining, acute, 

 usually under 3 inches long; venation fairly distinct in the older leaves, intra- 

 marginal vein well removed from the edge, lateral veins distant, roughly parallel, 

 inclined at an angle of 30-40 degrees with the midrib. Oil glands more prominent 

 in the young leaves. Peduncles short, 1 to 2 lines long, axillary, lateral or in short 

 terminal panicles, each bearing a head of about seven flowers. Buds sessile or almost 

 so, calyx-tube turbinate, 1 line in length ; operculum hemispherical, half as long as the 

 tube. Fruit broad, turbinate to hemispherical, sessile, more or less shining; rim 

 domed; valves broad and short, exserted; 2 lines long and 2-1- lines in diameter. The 

 fruit rather closely resemble those of E. Macarthuri than any other, the slightly rounded 

 rim being perhaps the chief difference. Habitat, Rydal, New South Wales." (Only 

 three trees seen.) 



Mr. Baker has given me a specimen of the best material available, and from 

 this the drawing has been prepared. But as, in my view, the material is not sufficient 

 to differentiate it from other species, I give it no number at present. 



The affinities of this incomplete material seem to lie between E. Macarthuri, 

 E. maculosa, and E. aggregaia. 



I can match the buds with either of the first two species, but the fruits are more 

 like those of E. Macarthuri than E. maculosa; nevertheless they might pass for those 

 of the latter. 



