NOTES ON EUCALYPTUS. 49} 
Pauca millia passuum ad orientem et meridiem e ‘‘ Normanton” 
(sinus “Carpentaria” civitas ‘““Queensland”) in formationem aren- 
aceam et cretaceam calculos ferreos continentem. 
Ktiam in viam a ‘Normanton” ad ‘‘Cloncurry” inter rivos. 
“Normanton” et “ Flinders” occurrit. 
Small Box-trees of 10 to 30 feet, sometimes suggestive 
of Mallee. Box-bark on trunk and large branches. Upper ‘ 
branches sometimes smooth and greenish. Known locally 
as ** Box.”’ | 
Juvenile leaves.—Not seen in the earliest state, but are 
sub-glaucous, branchlets angular, leaves lanceolate, shortly 
petiolate, up to say 9 cm. (34 inches) long, and 2-2°5 cm. 
broad, irregularly pinnate, the secondary veins at about an 
angle of 45° with the midrib; intramarginal vein distinctly 
removed from the edge. 
Mature leaves.—Bright green, somewhat shiny, give no 
odour of oil when crushed. Narrow-lanceolate, tapering, 
particularly to the apex, straight or somewhat falcate, 
petiolate, up to 10 cm. (4 inches) and more, and usually 
under 1 cm. wide, yellowish green, the same colour on both 
sides, with numerous not conspicuous almost pinnate 
secondary veins. 
Flowers.—Peduncles shortish, terminal in the specimens. 
available, each umbel with about five to seven rather small 
flowers. Buds bluntly clavate, the calyx-tube gradually 
tapering into. the pedicel. The buds often carry the 
remains of a second or outer operculum. The operculum 
hemispherical, with a very short mucro, about a third as. 
long as the ridge calyx-tube. Anthers as in H. gracilis. 
Fruits.—Fruit small, cylindroid-urceolate, about 4 mm. 
long and 3 mm. broad. The narrow rim crowned by a per- 
sistent staminal ring, the capsule deeply sunk. 
Type.—R. H. Cambage, No. 3930 (in fruit). 
