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J. H. MAIDEN. 



ON AN ADDITIONAL BLUE-LEAF STRINGYBARK. 

 By J. H. Maiden, i.s.o., f.r.s., f.l.s. 



[Bead before the Royal Society of N. S. Wales, December 7, 1921.'] 



E. AGGLOMERATA n. Sp. 



Arbor mediocris "Stringybark " vocata, ligno pallido durabili; 

 foliis jimioribus primum leniter tomentosis deinde hispidis pilis 

 stellatis, sessilibus vel breviter petiolatis, ovatis, marginibus 

 undulatis, venis secundariis tenuibus, venis periphericis margine 

 leniter remotis. Foliis maturis lanceolatis, falcatis, sub-obliquis, 

 petiolatis, crassiusculis, foliis novellis argenteis vel csesiis; venis 

 patentibus, venis secundariis angulum circiter 30° costa forman- 

 tibus alabastris angustis, rotundatis, stellatis, in pedunculo 

 applanato; operculo calycis tubum plus dimidio aequante; fructibus 

 parvis compresso-spheroidibus, ad 9 in capitulo, orificio parvo 

 margine nitente, valvis depressis vel interdum leniter exsertis. 



The name agglomerata refers to the crowded heads of 

 fruits, and was first used by me in connection with this 

 plant (as a variety of E. eugenioides) in Agric. Gaz. N.S.W., 

 vn, 268 (1896), subsequently in Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., 

 xxi, 806 (1896). I then dealt with it under E. eapitellata 

 in my "Critical Revision," Part viii, p. 215, and in the 

 same work, Part xlv, p. 151, under E. Blaxlancli, and the 

 tree has now reached its true position. 



Illustrations. — It has been figured as regards juvenile 

 leaves and fruits, at 6a and 6b of Plate 38, Part vmof my 

 "Critical Revision," and it will be additionally illustrated 

 in that work. 



A well-shaped tree of 50 — 80 feet, and 4-6 feet in 

 diameter at 3 feet from the ground. A Stringybark. The 

 timber pale brown, reddish towards the centre, of high 



