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DESCRIPTION. 



CCCIV. x E, Stopfordi Maiden, n.sp. 



Reputed parents, E. melliodora A. Cunn., and E. sideroxylon A. Cunn. 



An Ironbark with pale-coloured timber, which is curly in texture in the specimens before me. 



Juvenile leaves not seen in the earliest state. Intermediate leaves glaucous, thickish, rather 

 broadly lanceolate, venation spreading, intramarginal vein well removed from the edge. A specimen 

 11-5 cm. long and 2-5 cm. in greatest width, tapering into a petiole of nearly 2 cm. 



Mature leaves glaucous, thickish, venation spreading, inconspicuous, except the midrib and 

 intramarginal vein. Lanceolate, usually bluntish at the apex, smallish, usually not much exceeding 

 8 cm. long, and 1-5 cm. in width. 



Flowers. — Inflorescence paniculate, each peduncle bearing up to seven pedicellate flowers, the 

 opercula short, conical, pointed, and commonly each with a second operculum ; anthers obliquely truncate. 



Fruits not seen. 



RANGE. 



This was sent from " near Inverell,"' New South Wales, by the late District 

 Forester A. E. Stopford, and further particulars were not available through the state 

 of his health, which not long afterwards culminated in his tragic death. 



AFFINITIES. 



1. and 2. With E. melliodora A. Cunn., and E. sideroxylon A. Cunn. 



This is a puzzling form. In its timber, perhaps in the outline of its intermediate 

 leaves, and certainly in its inflorescence, it resembles the former ; in its bark, the colour 

 and texture of its leaves, it resembles the latter. In the present state of our knowledge, 

 therefore, there are grounds for the supposition that it may be a hybrid between the 

 two. 



