DESCRIPTION. 



CCCXXXVI. E. agglomerata Maiden. 



In Journ. Roy. Soc. N.S.W., lv, 266 (1921). 



Following is the original description : — 



Arbor mediocris " Stringybark " vocata, ligno pallido durabili ; foliis junioribus primum leniter 

 tomentosis deinde hispidis pills stellatis, sessilibus vel breviter petiolatis, ovatis, marginibus undulatis, 

 venis secundariis tenuibus, venis peripkericis margine leniter remotis. Foliis maturis lanceolatis, falcatis, 

 sub-obliquis, petiolatis, crassiusculis, foliis novellis argenteis vel csesiis ; venis patentibus, venis secundariis 

 angulum circiter 30° costa formantibus alabastris angustis, rotundatis, stellatis, in pedunculo applanato ; 

 operculo calycis tub m plus dimidio aequante ; fructibus parvis compresso-spheroidibus, ad 9 in capitulo, 

 orificio parvo margine nitente, valvis depressis vel interdum leniter exsertis. 



The name agglomerata refers to the crowded heads of fruits, and was first used by me in connection 

 with this plant (as a variety of E. eagenioides) in Agric. Gaz. N.S.W., vii, 268 (1896), subsequently in Proc. 

 Linn. Soc. X.S.W., xxi, 806 (1896). I then dealt with it under E. capitellata in the present work, Part VIII, 

 p. 215, and in the same work, Part XLV, p. 151, under E. Blaxlandi, and the tree has now reached its true 

 position. 



Illustrations. — It has been figured as regards juvenile leaves and fruits, at 6a and 6b of Plate 38, 

 Part VIII of the present work, and it is additionally illustrated in Plate 232 of the present part. 



A well-shaped tree of 50-80 feet, and 4-6 feet in diameter at 3 feet from the ground. A Stringybark. 

 The timber pale brown, reddish towards the centre, of high repute for durability. The whole plant has a 

 somewhat strong peppermint-Hke odour. 



Juvenile leaves. — -Only the first two or three pairs opposite, at first softly tomentose with stellate 

 hairs, eventually becoming markedly hispid on both surfaces; sessile to shortly petiolate, ovate, acute, 

 paler on the lower surface, the margins undulate; secondary veins fine, looping and forming a moderately 

 distant intramarginal vein; 4-7 cm. long, 2-4 cm. broad. 



Intermediate leaves alternate, smooth, from paler beneath to dark green on both surfaces, 

 narrow-lanceolate to broadly, and obliquely lanceolate, the apex mucronate to shortly acuminate, 5-8 cm. 

 long, 2-4 cm. broad. 



Mature leaves lanceolate, falcate, attenuate, somewhat oblique, occasionally oblong lanceolate, 

 from 10-15 cm. long and 2 to 3i cm. broad ; petiolate, thickish, equally green on both sides, but particularly 

 in the upper part of the tree, having a steel-grey or " silver-leaf " cast, hence the vernacular name. Venation 

 spreading, the secondary veins making an angle of about 30° with the midrib, the intramarginal vein not 

 close to the edge. 



Flowers. — Puds narrow, rounded, or only very slightly angled, stellately arranged, pinkish or 

 brownish at the base when fresh, up to fourteen in the head, sessile or nearly so, on an elongated flattened 

 peduncle. Operculum pointed, more than half the length of the calyx-tube. 



Fruits small, under 8 mm. in greatest diameter, compressed spheroid, with a comparatively small 

 orifice, the rim shining, reddish-brown, the valves well sunk, or sometimes very slightly exsert; up to 9 

 in a dense neaa. 



