DESCRIPTION. 



CC XXVIII. E. eximia Schauer. 



In Wolfers' Repertorium ii, 925 (1843). 



Following is a translation of the original : — 



Rigid, with firm lanceolate leaves narrowed into a petiole, long, acute, smooth on both sides and 

 sub-opaque, covered with small black dots, imperforate, without veins ; the terminal panicle composed of 

 very many — about six-flowered heads with long peduncles ; peduncles compressed, somewhat two-edged ; 

 operculum coriaceous, convex, umbonate, after expansion sometimes with the hinge of the operculum as if 

 adherent to the obconical wrinkled-angular calyx-tube (and the remaining parts ?) glaucous-hoary, finally 

 smooth shining. Leaves half a foot long and longer, about an inch broad. Flowers showy, 6 lines long ; 

 stamens elongated, white. Collected in New Holland in former days by Ferd. Bauer. 



It was described by Bentham in B.F1. iii, 258, as follows : — 



Leaves falcate-lanceolate, acuminate, mostly 4 to 6 inches long, with numerous veins, fine and 

 parallel, but scarcely visible owing to the thick coriaceous texture. Floivers several together, closely 

 sessile in heads, which are usually arranged on thick angular or flattened peduncles, in terminal corymbs 

 or panicles. Calyx -tube thick, obconical, somewhat angular, much tapering at the base, 3 to 4 lines long. 

 • Operculum broadly conical or shortly acuminate, always much shorter than the calyx-tube, and double, 

 as in E. maculata, but the inner one not readily separable in the dried specimens till the flower is ready to 

 open. Stamens 3 to 4 lines long ; anthers ovate-oblong, the cells parallel, opening longitudinally. Ovary 

 short, flat-topped. Fruit urceolate, £ to 1 inch long, the rim thin, the capsule deeply sunk. 



It is described and figured by Mueller in the Eucalyptographia." 



Caley, at the beginning of the 19th century, called it " Snuff-coloured Bark 

 Eucalyptus," which is descriptive, but, it seems to me, it gives an idea that the bark 

 is browner than it really is. The colour of the bark is a dirty yellow. 



By Sydney people this is variously known as " Mountain Bloodwood," " Yellow 

 Bloodwood," and "Rusty Gum." It is called "Bloodwood" partly because kino 

 exudes in the concentric circles of the wood (which kino, by the way, cannot be mistaken 

 for that of E. corymbosa). Baron von Mueller states (" Eucalyptographia"), following 

 Dr. Woolls, I find, that it sometimes goes by the name of " Smooth-barked Bloodwood," 

 but I have not heard it so' called. 



The purple (plum violet) of the young foliage is a very conspicuous object, and 

 it has long been known that it contains a small percentage of caoutchouc, as does that 

 of the common Sydney Bloodwood (E. corymbosa). 



Mr. W. F. Blakely noted that the young shoots in the Hornsby-Galston district 

 (near Hawkesbury River) distinctly smell of oil of lemon (February, 1918). 



