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DESCRIPTION. 



LXII. E. polyanthemos Schauer. 



For a description of this species, see p. 109, Part XIII of this work. It will Le 

 observed that, at p. 56 of the present Part, E. Dawscmi E. T. Baker has been recognised 

 as a species distinct from E. polyanthemos. 



Illustrations. 



In Plate 223, Part LIX of my " Forest Flora of New South Wales," I figured the 

 type specimen of E. polyanthemos Schauer. 



Most of the leaves are orbicular, and I find that the plate is incomplete to the 

 extent that I did not also figure the lanceolate leaves which are often found on trees 

 bearing orbicular and broadly lanceolate leaves as on the type. 



If, however, Plate 58 of Part XIII of the " Critical Revision" be turned to, it 

 will be found that' (as explained at p. 56) while figures 4, 9, 10, 11 are E. Davjsoni, 

 and show lanceolate leaves, Nos. 3, 5, 8 also show lanceolate leaves, and are true 

 E. polyanthemos. 



The Bark. 



The " North of Bathurst" tree (the type of E. polyanthemos) has a more or less 

 rough, flaky bark, but it varies, within limits, as to the amount of fibre and the distance 

 the roughness reaches up the bole. See also Cudal (W. F. Blakely), Hill End (R. H. 

 Cambage), p. 61, for local descriptions more or less full. 



The north-east of Victoria and the southern New South Wales tree was described 

 by the late Dr. A. W. Howitt as having a " gnarled, greyish boxy bark" and " bark 

 grey, persistent, and looks often scaly." " At first sight the tree resembles somewhat 

 E. hemiphloia variety albens in its bark.". Mr. Baeuerlen, speaking of trees near 

 Bombala, N.S.W., says, " bark light or yellow-grey, fibrous, persistent except on the 

 topmost smallest branchlets." 



Speaking of the Tumberumba district, N.S.W., Mr. R. H. Cambage says: — 

 " In comparing these trees with the Victorian and Bathurst Red Box, they appear to 

 more nearly resemble the former, but this is chiefly owing to their having Eox bark 

 covering the trunk and limbs. The fruit might belong to either, while, from a cursory 

 examination, the red timber of all three appears the same. In foliage, however, the 

 Kyeamba trees closely resemble the Bathurst Red Box, which has been described by R.T. 

 Baker under the name E. ovalifolia (these Proceedings, 1900, p. 680). (Proc. Linn. Soc. 

 N.S.W., xxix, 687.) 



