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Mature leaves. — Lanceolate, slightly curved, acuminate, equally 

 green on both sides, drying to a pale green, venation (except the 

 midrib) inconspicuous, the lateral veins very fine and somewhat 

 spreading, the marginal vein close to or very near the edge. 



Flowers. — Umbels 3 to 6 flowered, usually 3 or 4 together in 

 short axillar}^ or terminal panicles, the peduncles angular. Calyx- 

 tube obconical with one or two angles, tapering into a short pedicel. 

 Operculum blunt pointed, about as long as the calyx-tube. Stamens 

 inflected in the bud, anthers broad, white, opening at the sides, 

 filament at the base, small gland at the top. 



Fruit. — Ovoid cylindrical, and 7 mm. in diameter, often with 

 one or two angles, with a darker coloured rim hardly constricted 

 at the orifice, the tips of the valves slightly protruding. 



In my Critical Revision of the Genus Eucalyptus, Part 

 X, p. 332, I have, following Mueller and Luehmann, com- 

 bined E. leptophleba, F.v.M. and E. drepanophylla, Benth. 

 Following are some notes on the bark : — 



A. E. LEPTOPHLEBA, F.V.M. 



1. Bark dirty grey, rugose, fissured on trunk and per- 

 sistent on the branches. 1 This is the original description, 

 and appears perfectly clear. 



2. "An ironbark,"(B.Fl. iii,221, under E. drepanophylla). 

 On what authority it is stated to be an ironbark I know not. 



3. Dark persistent rugged bark (ib. under E. leptophleba). 

 Perhaps this is intended for a free translation of the original 

 description. 



4. " Breaking up into numerous small angular pieces in 

 the manner of E. tesselaris (" Eucalyptographia " under 

 E. crebra, probably following O'Shanesy, as quoted by me 

 in Critical Revision X, p. 332, but apparently wrongly, 

 O'Shanesy adopting the name given by Mueller for a tree 

 which, below, I have named E. Cambageana). 



1 Journ. Linn. Soc, iii, p. 86, 1859. 

 f— July 2, 1913, 



