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DESCRIPTION. 



CCLXXIL E. notabilis Maiden. 



In Journ. Roy. Soc. N.S.W., liv, 169 (1920). 



Following is the original description : — ■ 



Arbor mediocris pulchra umbrosa, cortice lamclloso-fibrosa " Mahogany " simile, ligno pallido 

 rectis fibris duro. Ramulis quadrangulatis. Foliis juvenilibus lanceolatis, petiolatis, pallidis, inferiore 

 pagina, vcnis secundariis fere parallelibus. Foliis maturis crassis, coriaceis, lanceolatis, rectis vel falcatis, 

 penniveniis. Alabastris ad 9 capitulo, pedunculo lato fere sessile, calycis tubo hemispherico ad hemi- 

 ellipsoides, angulis duobis prominulis. Fructibus fere hemisphericis, ca 7 mm. diametro angulis vel alis 

 duobus, margine distincta, valvis valde exsertis. 



A tree of moderate size, say about 50 feet, with a diameter of 4 to 5 feet. It has rich dark umbrageous 

 foliage, and is a handsome species. 



Bark flaky-stringy, or fibrous-flaky in young trees. It is rough to the tips of the branches, and the 

 trunk does not display corrugations of the bark. Timber pale-coloured (of the palest brown when freshly 

 cut), straight grained, a good splitter, and possessing a fair degree of ten.sile strength. 



Juvenile leaves. — Young branchlets markedly quadrangular, leaves very thin, pale on the under- 

 side, punctate, lanceolate, petiolate (say 10 or 11 cm. long, 3 or 4 cm. broad, with petioles of 1 cm. and 

 more), secondary veins thin, roughly parallel, rather spreading, making angles of 60-80 degrees with the 

 midrib, a few nearly at right angles ; intramarginal vein well removed from the edge. 



Mature leaves thick, coriaceous, of egg-shell lustre on the upper, but dull on the lower surface, 

 lanceolate, straight or falcate, tapering into a long apex, petiolate, up to 14 cm. long and more, up to 4 cm. 

 in greatest width, with petioles of 2 cm. Venation inconspicuous, the secondary veins penniveined, 

 nearly as parallel and commonly making scarcely a more acute angle with the midrib than the CorymbosaB; 

 the intramarginal vein not far removed from the edge. 



Buds up to nine in the head, on a broad strap-shaped peduncle of 1 cm. or less, sessile or on pedicels 

 of -5 cm., each commonly with a double operculum ; calyx-tube hemispherical to hemiellipsoid, with two 

 angles or ribs sometimes so prominent as to be winged ; operculum hemispherical to conoid, up to 7 mm. 

 in diameter and sometimes exceeding that of the calyx tube. 



Allthei'S white, opening in parallel slits, the two cells usually cohering to the tips; versatile; 

 large gland at the back. 



Fruits almost hemispherical, about 7 mm. in diameter, often with two or more angles or wings ; 

 rim well defined ; the calyx valves three or four, broad at the base, and the tips well exsert. 



Type. — Glenbrook, Blue Mountains, New South Wales. (R. H. Cambage and J.H.M.) 



Illustrations. — The new species is figured as intermediate between E. resinifera 

 and E. pellita in the present work, Part XXX, Plate 125, figs. 7, 8, 9. We there have 

 a juvenile leaf, mature leaf, buds with hemispherical and conoid opercula, anthers 

 and fruits. 



