104 C. HALL. 



the underside, glabrous, lateral veins numerous fine 

 parallel, indistinct on upper surface, intramarginal vein 

 very close to edge, oil dots visible. Flowers in dense 

 terminal corymbs, or short panicles; calyx 2-3 lines in 

 diameter, turbinate, glabrous, teeth acute ; petals white, 

 imbricate, abruptly acuminate, separately deciduous or 

 occasionally coming away together in a sort of operculum. 

 Fruit slightly larger than that of A. subvelutina, 4-5 lines 

 long, 3 — 4 lines broad, longitudinal ribs not prominent, rim 

 thin, contracted, incurved, teeth very short acuminate. 



Habitat. — Coastal district of New South Wales on 

 Hawkesbury Sandstone around Sydney and usually associ- 

 ated with Eucalyptus haemastoma and corymbosa. 



Timber. — A pale coloured timber, of medium weight, 

 with a pinkish duramen and pronounced alburnum readily 

 attacked by borers. Gum veins fairly prevalent. It 

 dresses well, is open in the grain and fissile, and specimens 

 free of gum veins and sapwood could be turned to economic 

 use, such as some forms of cabinet timber, and general 

 carpentry work. 



Remarks. — Bentham (Flora Aust.) does not mention this 

 form at all. It has usually been confused with A. intermedia. 

 Anyone seeing these two trees in the field could never 

 confuse them, as A. Bakeri can be distinguished by its 

 numerous narrow leaves, which droop in characteristic 

 fashion owing to the long petioles, and it forms a shorter, 

 broader tree than A. intermedia. The fruit of the former 

 is also slightly larger and asymmetrical on its pedicel, the 

 rim contracted and teeth very short and acuminate. More- 

 over it yields an oil and oil dots may be seen in the green 

 leaves, whereas A. intermedia, like A. subvelutina, yields 

 no oil or only traces. Taking all things into consideration 

 therefore, I consider this a far stronger species than A. 

 Intermedia. As pointed out before, the seedlings of A. 



