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J. H. MAIDEN. 



A large shrub or small pendulous Willow-like tree attaining a 

 height of 30 - 50 feet, forming a single stem, or stooling from the 

 ground. 



Bark dark box-like, or hard and scaly up to its branches, fall- 

 ing away in long flakes, rough at the butt, branches clean, bluish- 

 green or pale-yellow to white right up to the tips. 



Wood hard and heavy, of a deep red when freshly cut, becoming 

 browner with age, the grain of the timber fibrous, very tough, 

 reputed to be an excellent timber for wheel-wrights' work. 



Juvenile leaves dull green on both sides, linear-lanceolate, hardly 

 acuminate, about 6 or 7 cm. long, the venation not distinct, the 

 intramarginal vein close to the edge, the lateral veins penniveined, 

 plentifully besprinkled with oil-dots and the branchlets angular 

 and glandular. 



Mature leaves linear-lanceolate, petiolate, acuminate or with a 

 hooked tip, bright green, dull-shiny, richly covered with oil-dots, 

 venation indistinct, the intramarginal vein distinct from the edge, 

 the lateral veins penniveined. Average dimensions 9x1 cm. 



(If this species were gregarious, it would probably be found to 

 be a valuable oil-yielding species). 



Flowers. Umbels mostly axillary and flowers numerous, often 

 10 - 1 3 in an umbel, which sometimes takes on a stellulate appear- 

 ance. Operculum elongated, very much longer than the calyx- 

 tube, which is of slightly increased diameter, and which tapers, 

 somewhat abruptly, into the short pedicel. The common peduncle 

 about 1 cm. 



Anthers small, renantheroid, but the two cells more united than 

 in the Renantherse; spherical gland at top and back. 



Fruits. Small, about 5 mm. in diameter, truncate-spheroid, 

 the tips of the valves awl-shaped and protruding 2 mm. from the 

 orifice. 



Enclosing the valves and torn by the tips of them as the 

 fruit ripens is a thin white membrane, which gives the rim 



