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DESCRIPTION. 



CCCVI. * E. Auburnensis Maiden, n.sp. 



Reputed parents, E. melliodora A. Cunn., and E. melanophloia F.v.M. 



An Ironbark, with yellowish inner bark, and pale-coloured timber. 



Juvenile leaves glaucous, broadly lanceolate or almost lanceolate, say 6 cm. long by 4-5 broad, 

 with a short petiole of 3 mm. Venation spreading or curved, intramarginal vein or secondary intramarginal 

 vein at some distance from the margin, giving the leaf a triplinerved appearance. 



Mature le:ives glaucous or dull green, lanceolate, rarely falcate, tapering to a not very sharp apex ; 

 commonly 8 cm. long and 2-5 cm. broad in its greatest width ; venation spreading, inconspicuous, intra- 

 marginal vein distinctly removed from the edge. 



Flowers not seen. 



Fruits only observed on the old wood, in umbels up to five, with slender peduncles and distinct, 

 slender pedicels. Small (about 4 mm. in diameter), globular or slightly pear-shaped, tips of valves sunk 

 beneath, or scarcely protruding beyond, the orifice, rim reddish-brown. 



RANGE. 



On Auburn Vale, county of Arawatta, near Inverell (Gordon Burrow, 28th 

 October, 1907). 



I have never seen anything like them before ; there is only a small clump of about thirty trees. They 

 grow straight and fairly tall, and at a distance look like Stringybark, until one gets near enough to see the 

 bark. Other trees in the vicinity were Apple (Angophora suboelutina), Yellow Box (Eucalyptus melliodora), 

 Red Gum (E. dealhata (?) ). There is no Stringybark or Ironbark within at least a mile. On the growing 

 tree the bark looks almost like Wattle Bark. (Gordon Burrow, 28th October, 1907.) 



This reference to Wattle Bark is to those species which have hard furrowed 

 barks, almost like an Ironbark. 



