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' Tree of about 25 feet, rather straggly, has white bark, looks like a white gum 

 but is slightly different. The pink buds look peculiar." Arrowsmith-road, about 

 10 miles south of Dongarra (W. D. Campbell). 



AFFINITIES. 



With E. megacarpa F.v.M. . 



" Among Eucalypts, it resembles E. globulus on account of the shape of the bud. 

 The latter species appears also to grow in the humid tract of land on the coast of south- 

 west Australia near Cape Leeuwin, as far as it is possible to judge from the specimens 

 of our carpological collection." (N.B.— This was an error, the globulus-like species being 

 E. megacarpa J.H.M.). (Original description.) 



" It differs widely from the few other species of that section (Eudesmia) in the 

 large size of its flowers and fruits, in the shape and coloration of the lid, as well as in the 

 very broad expansion of the summit of its fruit, irrespective of some less conspicuous 

 differences." (" Eucalyptographia.") 



It is convenient to have a small table of characters illustrating all the Eudesmiea?, 

 as follows. The number preceding each species-name indicates the Part of this work 

 in which it has or will be treated. 





44. 45. 



45. 



44. 



44. 



46. 



46. 



45. 





BaiU.yana. tetrodonta 



odontocarpa. 



similis. 



lirata. 



eudesmioides. 



tetragona. 



erythrocorys. 





Eastern 







Eastern 











Species. 







Species. 











Size ... 



Medium-sized 



Medium-sized 



Shrub 



Medium-sized 



Medium-sized 



A shrub or 



Tall, glaucous 



Tall shrub or 





tree or larger. 



. tree to very 





tree. " Yel- 



tree. 



small tree up 



shrub or small 



small tree. 





" Black 



large. " Mess- 





low Jacket.'' 





to 20 feet. 



tree. " White 



Branches de- 





Stringy bark. " 



mate." 









"WhiteGum" 



Marlock." 



cussate. 



Bark ... 



Hard, thick, 



Whitish, fibrous, 





Yellow flaky . . . 



Rough and 



Smooth, a little 



Smooth, a little 



Smooth, with a 





fibrous, inter- 



persistent. 







greyish, soft 



scaly at butt. 



scaly at butt. 



little ribbony 



locked. A 









and friable. 







bark. 



, coarse stringy- 



















bark. 

















Timber 



Pale brown 



" Pale " (W.V. 

 F.), "Reddish- 







Brownish 



Pale-chocolate 

 brown to- 



Pale 



Pale brown. 











brown " (R.H. 









wards heart ; 











c, 









most of it 

 white. 







Leaves 



Broadly - lance- 



Long-lanceolate. 



Linear-lanceo- 



Ovate acumin- 



Lanceolate ... 



Lanceolate . . . 



Reek with oil ... 



Very large. 





olate. 



Huge juvenile 

 leaves. 



late. 



ate, then nar- 

 row lanceo- 

 late. 











Flowers 



Filaments 



Buds reminis- 

 cent of large 





Filaments yel- 

 low. 





Filaments 

 cream- 



Filaments 

 cream- 



Very large fila- 

 ments prim- 



! cream- 







coloured. 



cloves. Fila- 

 ments yellow- 

 ish-white. 









coloured. 



coloured. 



rose yellow. 

 Opercula car- 

 mine-red. 



Fruits : Nearly globular 



Oblong - cylin- 



Oblong -cylin- 



Truncate-ovoid 



Truncate-ovoid 



Quadrangular 



Ovoid to nearly 



Tetragonous, 





drical. 



drical (smal- 





perhaps lar- 





globular. 



quadrangular, 







ler than pre- 





ger and more 





Rather large. 



2J x 2£ inches. 



I 





ceding). 





globular than 

 similis. 







Largest fruit 

 in genus. 



