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DESCRIPTION. 



XXXV. E. haemastoma Sm. 



The original description will be found at Part X, p. 317, and at Part XXXVII, 

 p. 104, of my " Forest Flora of New South Wales," where it is figured at Plate 140. 

 In the present work it is figured at Plate 46, figs. 12 and 13, and Plate 47, figs. 11-14, 

 and no additional figures appear necessary. It may be described as follows : — ■ 



A smooth-barked, scraggy-looking tree, rarely reaching 30 feet, 15-20 feet being a fair average on 

 the coastal sandstone in the Hornsby (Sydney) district. In some places, i.e., on heathy slopes or wind- 

 swept plateaux in the Hawkesbury district, in association with the Mallee-form of E. earjenioides and 

 E. Camficldi, it forms mallee-like thickets of 3-8 feet, here and there relieved by single-stemmed specimens 

 up to 20 feet. 



The factors which seem to be responsible for the mallee-like. growth are elevation, shallow nature 

 of the soil, and bush fires, which sweep over such places every two or three years. The mallee growth has 

 not time to flower before it is burnt off, hence it rarely matures seed, but depends largely upon vegetative 

 reproduction. 



The mature leaves are coarse, dark, glossy green, somewhat resembling those of E. coriacea. In 

 the growing season the young branchlets are often yellowish. 



The following leaves, collected by Messrs. W. F. Blakely and D. W. C, Shiress 

 from near Mount Colah gates, Kuring-gai Chase (Hornsby district), may be taken as 

 typical. 



Juvenile leav(S pale green or somewhat glaucous on both surfaces. 



Lower leaves almost sessile, broadly oblong to orbicular, 4-5 cm. long, 3-4 cm. broad, equally 

 venulose on both sides, the veins branching towards the top; midrib conspicuous, slightly reddish; 

 intramarginal vein fairly close to the edge. (The " lower leaves " are the successors of those pairs which 

 succeed the cotyledon leaves, and which precede the ordinary intermediate or mature leaves). 



Intermediate leaves shortly petiolate, broadly lanceolate, acute, 7-10 cm. long, 3-4 cm. broad, 

 venulose on the lower surface; midrib prominent; intramarginal vein distant from the revolute margin, 

 more or less undulate through its connection with the secondary nerves. 



RANGE. 



In Part X, p. 321, I have stated that E. hcemastoma apparently does not extend 

 beyond the Hawkesbury sandstone (at least as west as Mount Wilson), and that it is most 

 abundant not far from Port Jackson, the Hawkesbury and George's Rivers, and the 

 ridges and broken country in the vicinity. It also extends to as far south as Tumut, 

 and north to Kempsey and to southern Queensland. The Castlereagh River and 

 Queensland localities belong to E, micrantha. 

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