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DESCRIPTION. 



CCXLVIL E. Baileyana F.v.M. 



In Fragm. xi, 37 (1878). 



Following is a translation of the original : — 



A tree, with angular branchlets, leaves scattered, papery, falcate-lanceolate, glaucous green, opaque, 

 densely punctate, veins very fine, moderately spreading, peripheral vein rather distant from the margin, 

 umbels axillary and lateral, solitary, 7-10 flowered, on a slightly- compressed peduncle, calyx shortly 

 pedicellate, the tube slightly longer than the semi-ovate or almost hemispherical, rather acute operculum, 

 all the stamens fertile, anthers broadly cordate, fruit globose-urceolate, trilocular, margin of the orifice 

 thin, valves deltoid, shortly exsert. 



Moreton Bay, rare. Bailey. 



Bark fibrous, persisting not only on the trunk but also on the branches, the inner bark tough and 

 yellow. The timber, according to the discoverer, is yellowish. Leaves 3-5 inches long, ^—1 inch broad, 

 the same colour on both sides, dull, thickly covered with slightly pellucid dots ; veins inconspicuous, not 

 closely pinnate. The flower-bearing peduncles about \ inch long, the fruit-bearing ones double that length. 

 Buds densely capitate, clavate-cylindrical ; I have not seen fully developed flowers. Stamens inflexed 

 before expansion. Fruit-bearing pedicels 2-4 lines long. Friut 5-7 lines long and broad, slightly wrinkled- 

 *striate, very obtuse at the base ; the valves occasionally scarcely extending beyond the mouth of the 

 calyx. Seeds not seen. 



Mueller described the species in English in the " Eucalyptographia " with a 

 figure, which, like the description, is erroneous in parts. 



Mueller mixed up two trees under the one name. For example, in his 

 ' Eucalyptographia " figure, the lower part of the twig bearing the fruits is the true 

 E. Baileyana. The rest of the figure, leaves, buds, and flowers, and of the details (again 

 excluding the fruits and seeds) belong to a Stringybark nearest to E. eugenioides Sieb. 

 The figure, therefore, is a composite one, the twig of E. eugenioides having been 

 prolonged, and the fruits of E. Baileyana having been fitted on to it. In other words, 

 no such plant exists as is figured. 



I therefore re-described the species in the following words in my " Forest Flora 

 of New South Wales," Part XXXV, p. 71 :— 



Bark. — The bark is hard, thick, rather interlocked, and contains much kino. It is not a 

 typical Stringybark — that is to say, its bark is not soft and fibrous. ' 



Timber. — Of a light-grey colour when fresh, interlocked in grain, very tough, inferior in quality 

 to that of the other Stringybarks (J. L. Boorman.) 



