NOTES ON EUCALYPTUS. 



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Mature leaves. Lanceolate, slightly curved, petiolate, thickish, 

 shiny, pale-coloured, equally green on both sides, venation promin- 

 ent, the intramarginal vein distinctly removed from the edge, the 

 lateral veins spreading. Average length of mature leaves 15 x 

 2-5 cm. 



Flowers. Umbels three to eight in the head, forming usually 

 terminal panicles, buds clavate, the calyx-tube forming a denned 

 raised border at its junction with the operculum, the calyx-tube 

 tapering gradual^ into the pedicel, the operculum ovoid and about 

 half the length of the calyx-tube. 



Anthers belonging to the Porantherse, pores small, opening at 

 the side, the filament always at the base, and the small gland 

 always at the top. 



Fruits. Small, conoid, the calyx-tube tapering with but slight 

 abruptness into the pedicel ; when young, with a well denned 

 grooved rim, which almost disappears on ripening, leaving a dark 

 brown rim, tips of the valves sunk or rarely flush with the orifice. 

 Size about 7 mm. diameter at the orifice and length the same. 



Habitat. " Grows on hard clay soil, often stony, and 

 always some distance from water. Generally in clumps 

 and often in company of Gidgee and Brigalow in the 

 Charters Towers district." (Miss Zara Clark). 



Reid River, a few miles south of Townsville (N. Daley). 



44 The principal timber of the Emerald district, noted for 

 its hardness and size and for the good quality of its timber. 

 Apparently local from Gin Gin to within 10 - 12 miles east 

 of Alpha." (J. L. Boorman). 



Some poor fruits collected by O'Shanesy from the Dawson 

 and Mackenzie Rivers, labelled E. leptophleba by Mueller, 

 are the present species. These were referred to by me in 

 Crit. Rev. Gen. Eucalyptus, x, 333, where I doubted the 

 naming of the specimen. It might be neglected altogether 

 but for the reason that (op. cit., p. 333), it evidently formed 



