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DESCRIPTION. 



C CX XXL E. trachyphloia F.v.M. 



In Journ. Linn. Soc. iii, 90 (1859). 



Following is a translation of the original : — 



A tree with angular branchlets, leaves alternate, moderately petiolate, narrow-lanceolate, subfalcate, 

 narrowed into a fine point, opaque, faintly veined, with pellucid dots, intramarginal vein somewhat close 

 to the edge. Umbels paniculate, 3-5 flowered, pedicels shorter than the peduncle, angled and the same 

 length as the fruit. Fruit small, ecostate, truncate-ovate, three-celled, deltoid valves deeply included, 

 seeds wingless. 



On hills near the Burnett River (Queensland). Flowering September and October. 



A medium sized tree, the bark persistent on the trunk and branches, ashy brown and rough, breaking 

 into little pieces. Leaves 3-5 inches long, 5-8 lines broad, narrowed into a petiole of 6-9 lines, a little 

 paler on the underside, fruit measuring about 3 lines, gradually contracted at the mouth. 



Bentham then described it in B.F1. iii, 221 : — - 



A moderate-sized tree, with a dark grey rugged bark, persistent. Leaves long-lanceolate, often 

 falcate, 4-6 inches long, with very numerous fine parallel almost transverse veins, the marginal one close to 

 or very near the edge. Flowers not seen. Fruiting-umbels several together in terminal panicles or in the 

 upper axils, each with 3 to 6 pedicellate fruits. Fruit ovoid-truncate, contracted towards the orifice, 

 about 3 lines long, the rim thin, the capsule deeply sunk. 



It was described and figured by Mueller in the " Eucalyptographia," and he 

 points out that while it attains a height of 80 feet, with a stem-diameter of 2 feet, 



" in exposed situations on the tops of hills dwarfed in growth and fruiting 



already in a shrubby state." 



The timber is pale-coloured, somewhat like Spotted Gum (E. maculata). 



Dr. J. Shirley, gives the aboriginal name as " Gou-unya " in use by the Koola- 

 burra tribe, between Tarromeo and Nanango, South Queensland. 



In constituting a forma fruticosa F. M. Bailey, Queensland Agric. J own. xxv, 

 July, 1910, p. 9, says : — 



For many years may have been observed on the Glasshouse Mountain, a dwarf form of our " White 

 Bloodwood." It flowers and fruits when only about 5 feet high, and is certainly a worthy plant for 

 garden culture, and if thus brought into use would require some name whereby it might be distinguished 

 from the common form of the species, hence I have attached to it the above name fruticosa. We, however, 

 so far have no proof of seedling plants retaining the dwarf habit, yet there is no reason to suppose otherwise, 

 for this may be looked upon as a sport, like many other variations in the genus. Baron von Mueller notices 

 in his " Eucalyptographia," Decade 5, this mountain form, but does not mention any particular locality; 

 it may, however, have been in this same place, for I believe that he and Walter Hill together did some 

 collecting in that locality in the early days of Queensland. 



