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DESCRIPTION. 



X XIII. E. sepuleralis Fv.M. 



In " Eucalyptographia." 



I have a note on this species in Part VIII, p. 244, of the present work. 



The description of the species is as follows (and an original figure is given in 

 Plate 233 herewith) :— 



" Arborescent; leaves rather small, scattered, on slender stalks, narrow-lanceolar, slightly curved, 

 of equal colour and somewhat shining on both sides; their lateral veins very subtle, moderately spreading, 

 almost concealed, the circumferential vein but slightly removed from the edge of the leaf ; oil-pores 

 angular, much obliterated, umbels 3-5 flowered, solitary, axillary, soon lateral : umbel-stalks long and 

 slender, but much compressed ; tube of the flowering calyx slightly bulging towards the base, thence 

 much widening upwards, about as long as its stalklet, of about twice the length of the pyramidal-hemi- 

 spherical lid, not prominently angular, but as well as the lid wrinkled; stamens all fertile, and all indexed 

 before expansion; filaments yellow; anthers ovate — or roundish — cordate, bursting in front with upward 

 confluent slits; style elongated; stigma not dilated; fruit large, urceolar-ovate, wrinkled and streaked, 

 somewhat contracted at the margin: orifice cylindrical; edge of the summit narrow ; valves four, rarely 

 five, very short, deeply enclosed ; fertile and sterile seeds of nearly the same, size, very angular, without 

 any membraneous appendage." 



" Strange-looking trees, with their branches hanging down all round to the ground, like those of a 

 weeping willow," according to Mr. Taylor, through whose circumspectness and exertions branchlets of 

 this new Eucalypt became accessible to me from a desolate place far inland. Bark of the stem smooth and 

 whitish. Branchlets slender, angular toward their summit and tinged with a bluish-white bloom, soon 

 becoming cylindrical and assuming a dark-bluish, somewhat black, hue. Leaves vividly green ; the majority 

 from 2 to 3t inches long, and from \ to § of an inch broad, almost equilateral, terminating into a narrow 

 apex, narrowed into a stalk of from J to j inch length. Umbel-stalks 1- 1 A inches long, two-edged, gradually 

 somewhat dilated upwards ; two narrow deciduous at first connate bracts enclosing the umbel in its earliest 

 stage. Stalklets wrinkled and angular, but not much compressed or dilated. Tube of the flowering calyx 

 from \ to nearly I inch long, conspicuously corrugated, as well as the lid ; between the latter and former a 

 conspicuous transverse sutural furrow. Longest stamens hardly above J inch long, filaments not angular, 

 dotted with a few oil-glands, their lower portion not flexuous in bud; anthers whitish, inserted below the 

 middle; dorsal gland small, seated near the summit; in dry anthers the slits wide and separated 

 downward only by an exceedingly narrow intervening membrane ; in fresh or macerated anthers the slits 

 very narrow, conspicuously distant downward, though not marginal, confluent in an arched curvature on 

 the summit. Style yellowish, somewhat twisted. Ovary only occupying the basal portion of the 

 calyx-tube, very much over-reached by the comparatively narrow walls of the latter. Fruits about 1 inch 

 long, seated on stalklets of about half that length, greyish and not shining outside, longitudinally traversed 

 by raised and somewhat undulated streaks, the upper fourth rather suddenly ennarrowed and straight, 

 except at the incurved summit, but this infraterminal constriction sometimes so faint as to render the 

 fruit simply truncate-ovate. Placental column comparatively short. Valves deltoid. Seeds not 

 numerous in each cell, mostly from 1J to 2 lines in length, a few scarcely 1 line long; the fertile seeds out- 

 side black, shining and marked with exceedingly subtle reticulation, the prominent angles ascending and 

 diverging from the hilum, the summit convex and broad ; sterile seeds brown, narrower, but never very 

 >lender." 



