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DESCRIPTION. 



CCLXXXV. E. rariflora F. M. Bailey. 



In Queensland Agric. Journ., January, 1914, p. 62, with plates. 

 Following is the original description : — 



A tall tree not recorded as very abundant ; branchlets slender of a pleasing red colour. Leaves 

 very variable in shape, those of the flowering branchlets varying from lanceolate to oblong or even ovate, 

 from 2— tj inches long and i-l inch broad, or the ovate ones still broader on slender petioles of about 

 1 inch. On young trees the leaves are almost orbicular, or sometimes obversely reniform, and mostly 

 broader than long, but always slightly decurrent on the petiole from i-3 inches long and \- 3| inche s 

 broad, apex sometimes emarginate, texture thin, in the young leaves, almost membranous. (The petioles 

 in these large leaves are often over 2 inches long.) Parallel nerves numerous, slender, branching at the top, 

 where they join the intramarginal one, which is sometimes very close, at other times rather distant 

 from the edge, the smaller veins forming a very delicate irregular reticulation. Oil dots numerous. 

 Inflorescence composed of slender erectopatent panicles of usually few scattered pedicellate flowers ; at 

 times in umbels of three or four flowers. Operculum very short, scarcely exceeding 1 line, blunt or very 

 slightly umbonate. Stamens inflected in the bud, the outer ones 1| lines long. Anthers globular, 

 opening in broad slits. Fruit (including the short pedicel) 4 lines long, about 2 lines diameter; rim rather 

 broad. Capsule sunk, 4-ceIled, the valves not exserted. Seeds small, somewhat pear-shaped, dark 

 brown and slightly rugose. 



The trunk and large branches are (according to information and specimens 

 kindly supplied to me by Dr. T. L. Bancroft) covered with hard-fibrous, black, corrugated 

 bark, such as would merit the name of Black Box (Rhytiphloice). The colour of the 

 timber is pale brown. 



RANGE. 



It is confined to Queensland, so far as we know at present, the only specimens 

 known coming from Eidsvold and Mundubbera. 



