64 J. H. MAIDEN. 



Juvenile leaves with very long petioles, irregularly orbicular, the 

 base flat or slightly tapering into the petiole, the apex rounded or 

 blunt, the venation pinnately spreading; glabrous, thick and 

 leathery, the margin undulate, large, say 14 cm. broad by 12 long 

 (5-J- by 4| inches). 



Mature leaves very similar to the juvenile ones, but smaller, 

 with some tendency to becoming broadly-lanceolate, with the 

 secondary veins making a smaller angle with the midrib. 



Buds few in an umbel, usually four, the umbels forming a race- 

 mose inflorescence. The long peduncles terete or slightly flattened. 

 The calyx- tube pear-shaped, about • 5 cm. in diameter, tapering into 

 a pedicel of 1 cm. The operculum hemispherical with a slight 

 umbo or conical, of about the same length as the calyx-tube. 



Anthers long, opening in parallel slits, gland at top, filament at 

 base with affinity to the semi-terminal ones. Style conspicuous, 

 the stigma not exceeding it in width. 



Fruit not seen. 



Type from Bathurst Island (Gerald F. Hill, No. 468). 



Range. 

 I have only received it from Bathurst Island, (which is to 

 the immediate west of Melville Island, and with it forms a 

 huge island off the Northern Territory, north of Darwin). 



It grows iu somewhat heavy soil, in rather flat localities 

 (presumably subject to floods) and associated with JE. 

 papuana, E. terminalis and an occasional No. 464. (E* 

 latifolia F.v.M.) (G. F. Hill). 



A photograph of a moderately dense forest, taken by 

 Mr. Hill, shows the distinct outlines of a tree of this species 

 about forty feet high, with a diameter of about two feet. 

 There is, partly in the foreground, a tree of the same 

 species, perhaps fifty feet high. 



