DESCRIPTION. 



CCXL. E. Mooreana (W. V. Fitzgerald) Maiden. 



In Journ. Roy. Soc. N.S.W., xlvii, 221 (1913). 

 Following is the original description : — ■ 



Arbor parva, contorta, glauca. Kamuli teretes. Folia juvenilia ovato-cordata vel lato-lanceolata, 

 amplexicaula vel perfoliata, crassa, pleraque 10 cm. kmga, 8 cm. lata. Venae patentiores, venis secun- 

 dariis fere parallelibus, vena peripheriea a margine remota. Folia matura ampliora et acuminatiora. 

 Opercula conica et longitudine et diametro 1 cm. metientia. Fructus hemisphaerico-cylindroidei, valvaium 

 apicibus conspicue exsertis. 



In honour of Newton J. Moore, Minister for Lands, subsequently Premier, and then Agent-General 

 in London for the State of Western Australia. 



A small crooked tree, glaucous all over, branchlets round. Notes on bark and timber not available. 

 (A White Gum with reddish timber; see below.) 



Juvenile leaves.— Ovate-cordate or bluntly and broadly lanceolate, stem-clasping or perfoliate. 

 Thick, somewhat undulate, uniform colour on both sides, venation somewhat spreading, the secondary 

 veins roughly parallel. Intramarginal vein distant from the edge. Average size say 10 x 8 cm. 



Mature leaves. — These do not differ essentially from the juvenile leaves, except that they are 

 larger and more acuminate. Average size, say 15 x 9 cm. 



Buds. — Four to seven on a sessile or nearly sessile head with a thick common peduncle of about 

 1 cm. Symmetrical, the operculum bluntly conical, about 1 cm. long and of equal diameter, the calyx- 

 tubo of equal length and with one or two angles. 



Flowers. — Pale yellow when fresh, drying orange red. Anthers long and creamy in colour, opening 

 in parallel slits, large gland at the back, filament attached to the middle, versatile. 



Fruits. — Hemispherical-cylindroid, with a thin, sharp, slightly domed rim, the tips of the valves 

 very prominently protruded. Diameter at rim scarcely 1 cm. 



When Mr. Fitzgerald went to the war in April, 1916, he entrusted many of his 

 botanical manuscripts to me, and amongst them I found the following description of 

 E. Mooreana, which I reproduce here, as it usefully supplements the description I had 

 drawn up nearly three years previously. A few notes from it I published in Journ. 

 Roy. Soc. N.S.W., li, 454 (1917). 



Arborescent; branchlets, foliage and inflorescence meaty-white, seldom green, the branchlets 

 terete or slightly angular; leaves sessile, opposite, broadly ovate, obtuse or scarcely acute, cordate or 

 almost amplexicaul, rather rigid, veins divergent, the intramarginal one distant from the edge; flowers 

 sessile, mostly 6-8 together, on axillary opposite peduncles which are thick, angular and dilated upwards; 

 calyx-tube obovoid, obtusely angled, lid conical, as long as or slightly longer than the tube, tapering into 

 a short obtuse beak, enveloped until shortly before expansion of the stamens in an outer membranous 

 covering of the same shape; stamens all antheriferous, the outer somewhat short and flexuose, the inner 



