NOTES ON EUCALYPTUS. 107 



NOTES ON EUCALYPTUS, No. VIII. 

 (With descriptions of two new Western Australian 



Species.) 



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



[Reid before the Royal Society of N. S. Wales, September 3, 1919.'] 



E. Lane-Poolei n. sp. 



Arbor mediocris, White Gum vocata; cortice crassa, pulvere 

 alba tecta; ligno hepatico; foliis primariis lanceolatis vel lato- 

 lanceolatis, ca 6 cm. longis 3 cm. latis, venis secondares fere 

 parallelis; foliis maturis breve petiolatis, lanceolatis, acuminatis 

 subfalcatis, ca. 10 vel 11 cm. longis, 2 cm. latis, venis inconspicuis; 

 pedunculis teretibus, ca. 1*5 cm. longis, plerumque 4-6 floris, 

 pedicellis teretibus 1 cm. longis; calycis tubo ca. 1 cm. diaroetro, 

 fere hemispherico; operculo crassissimo, hemispherico ; antheris 

 grandis fissuris parallelis late dehiscentibus; fructibus hemi- 

 sphericis, ca. 1 cm. diametro, margine lato, leniter convexo, valvis 

 distincte exsertis. 



A medium sized tree known as "White Gum," and carry- 

 ing a thick bark covered with a white powder. Sapwood 

 pale-coloured and thick, the timber interlocked, and rich 

 reddish-brown in colour, drying, in the course of years, to 

 a deep purplish-brown. 



Juvenile leaves shortly petiolate, lanceolate to broadly- 

 lanceolate, about 6 cm. long by 3 cm. broad, of the same 

 colour on both sides, the secondary veins moderately 

 spreading, and tending to be parallel to each other. A 

 vein more prominent than the other secondary veins, 

 roughly following the outline of the leaf, but at a consider- 

 able distance from the margin, and giving the leaf a tripli- 

 nerved appearance. 



