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Buds and flowers. Inflorescence profuse, in a loose umbel, 

 several flowered, mostly in a terminal corymbose panicle, the 

 peduncles slightly compressed or angular, calyx-tube irregularly 

 ribbed, shiny; opercula hemispherical or umbonate, shiny. Fila- 

 ments yellow, anthers with long narrow adnate cells with a moder- 

 ately large gland at the back, and the filament attached half way up. 



Fruits. Sharply separated' from the short pedicel, on a slightly 

 flattened common peduncle of about 1*5 cm. Truncate-ovoid, 

 gradually constricted towards the orifice, barely 1 cm. long and 

 about 6 mm. at the orifice. Three- valved, the valves blunt and 

 these capsule teeth not adherent to the calyx-tube. 



Habitat. Desert country west of Emerald, Queensland. 



Affinity. Its closest affinity, so far as is known, is E. 

 Baileyana,F. v.M. (see description amended by me in Forest 

 Flora N.S.W., iv, 71). Like that species it is a member of the 

 section Eudesmiese, and appears to differ from E. Baileyana 

 in the following characters : — 



1. E. similis is said to be a "Yellow Gum," or " Yellow 

 Jacket," while E. Baileyana is a "Black Stringybark." 



2. The mature leaves of E. similis have the same colour 

 on both sides, and have shorter peduncles, while the juvenile 

 leaves are glabrous, those of E. Baileyana being covered 

 with stellate hairs. 



3. The fruits of E. similis are, in comparison with those 

 of E. Baileyana, cylindroid, those of jE. Baileyana being 

 almost spherical, darker and much larger. 



The specific name is given in view of the affinity of this 

 species to E. Baileyana, P. v.M. 



4. E. Cambageana, n. sp. 



Local Name "Blackbutt." 



Type from Mirtna Station, Charters Towers, Queensland 

 (Miss Zara Clark, January and December 1912.) 



