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2 and 3. With E. miniata A. Cunn. , and E. phcenieea F.v.M. 



E. peltata is, however, well marked, aa noticed by myself in 1856 on the sources of the south-eastern 

 rivers of Carpentaria, by the remarkable texture and structure of the bark, in which respect it bears 

 resemblance" only to E. phcenieea and E. miniata, constituting with them the section of Lepidophloia? in 

 the cortical system. (" Eucalyptographia," under E. peltata.) 



For E. miniata and E. phcenieea see Plate 96, Part XXII, with the juvenile leaves 

 of the former described at p. 37. The juvenile leaves of E. miniata are not petiolate; 

 those of E. phcenieea are not known. The buds and fruits are very different from those 

 of E. peltata, those of E. miniata being very large and ribbed, the ribbing being less 

 marked in E. phcenieea. There are other differences that comparison of the figures will 

 readily disclose. The filaments of E. miniata and E. phcenieea are orange to scarlet, 

 while the barks are more lamellar and friable. 



4. With E. Torelliana F.v.M. 



Perhaps E. peltata will require to be placed nearest to E. Torelliana, although the latter stands on 

 record as one of the tallest forest trees near Rockingham Bay, with a " bark smooth as glass " ; moreover, 

 the hairiness of its branchlets and leaf-stalks is more conspicuous, all its leaves are of completely basal 

 insertion and evidently paler beneath, therefore their stomata are not isogenous, but (as tabulated before) 

 heterogeneous ; the flowers and fruits may also prove different, the former being only as yet known in an 

 unexpanded state and the latter having never yet been collected at all. 



For E. Torelliana see Part XXXIX, Plate 160. It will be at once seen that the 

 two species have much in common — the broad-leaved, hirsute, peltate juvenile leaves, 

 succeeded by narrow-lanceolate leaves, the venation being less fine and feather-like in 

 E. peltata. The difference in the aspect of the trees has already been referred to, the 

 size, bark, and timber being all dissimilar. The buds are different, but the markedly 

 urceolate fruits of E. Torelliana are more markedly so. The latter species is a coastal 

 species with high rainfall. The other is a comparatively dry-country species. 



