226 J. H. MAIDEN. 



specimens, in others at an angle of about 60 to the midrib 

 and roughly parallel. Intramarginal vein not conspicuous, 

 and somewhat removed from the edge. Size of leaves seen 

 by me about 12 cm. long and 5 broad. 



Mature leaves. Narrow lanceolar, somewhat falcate, 

 shiny, equally green on both sides, thickish, coriaceous, 

 petiolate, venation inconspicuous and penniveined, margins 

 thickened, and the fine intramarginal vein not close to the 

 edge. Leaves seen by me about 15 cm. long and 2 broad. 



Buds. Not seen perfectly ripe. Pointed clavate, slightly 

 angular, the operculum pointed, very slightly exceeding the 

 calyx-tube in diameter, and about half as long as the same. 

 Each half ripe bud about 1 cm. long, with a pedicel of half 

 that length, apparently 3 to 7 buds in the umbel, with a 

 strap shaped peduncle of 1.5-2 cm. Flowers not seen. 



Fruits. With short peduncles to nearly sessile, cylin- 

 droid, about 1*5 cm. long and about half that in diameter, 

 with a thin, grooved rim, valves 3 or 4, and the tips well 

 sunk below the orifice. 



Habitat. This has been already stated. 



Affinities. 

 1. With E. incrassata, Labill. Mueller suggested this 

 affinity on a label on Sir John Forrest's specimen. 



The affinity is there, no doubt. We have it in the cylind- 

 roid fruits, but I know of none quite so cylindrical as those 

 of the present species. As regards the buds, the operculum 

 is shorter than the calyx-tube in some forms of E. incrassata 

 also, but there is an absence of multiple ribbing in the 

 present species. The juvenile leaves are somewhat differ- 

 ent and the mature leaves are very different to those of 

 any form of E. incrassata I know. The proposed species is 

 a large tree, far exceeding in size that of any form of E. 

 incrassata I ever heard of. 



