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DESCRIPTION. 



XXL E. marginata Sm. 



The brief, insufficient original description will be found at Part VIII, p. 241, so my 

 readers will welcome that of Bentham in the Flora Australiensis : — 



E. marginata Sm. in Trans. Linn. Soc. vi, 302. 



Usually a large shrub or small tree with a smooth or roughish bark, but sometimes a tree of 12 to 

 50 feet, with a persistent rough bark (Oldfield), or a large forest-tree (Fraser). 



Leaves ovate-lanceolate or lanceolate, acuminate, often falcate, mostly 3 to 5 inches long, with 

 rather numerous, very diverging veins, conspicuous, especially underneath, when the leaf is not very thick, 

 much less so when it is thickly coriaceous, the intramarginal vein at some distance from the edge, the upper 

 surface said to be dark-green, and the under one whitish, but the difference scarcely perceptible in dried 

 specimens. 



Peduncles axillary, or the upper ones without floral leaves, terete or flattened, especially in coarser 

 specimens, each with about i to 8, or sometimes more, rarely only 3 flowers, on pedicels of about 2 or 3 

 lines. 



Calyx-tube short and very open, 2 to 3 hues diameter. Operculum oblong-conical, from a little 

 longer than to more than twice as long as the calyx-tube, obtuse or acuminate. Stamens 3 to 4 lines long, 

 the filaments very flexuose but not inflected in the bud ; anthers reniform, the cells diverging, confluent 

 at the apex. 



Ovary flat or convex in the centre. Fruit obovoid or subglobose, -|- in. diameter or larger, thick, 

 hard and smooth, contracted at the orifice, the rim usually flat and not very broad, with the capsule scarcely 

 depressed, but sometimes the rim is still thinner with a sunk capsule ; valves small, not protruding. 

 (B.F1. iii, 209.) 



Figure 26 shows the thickened margin, to which the species owes its specific name. 



The species is depicted in Plate 230 by request, as it has not hitherto been 

 figured in the present work, and it has been represented to me that the plate in 

 Mueller's " Eucalyptographia " is only available to a limited number of students. 



There are some notes on the timber of E. marginata in Part LI, p. 46. 



