228 J. H. MAIDEN. 



Timber reddish-brown and with concentric though not 

 abundant gum-veins. 



Intermediate leaves petiolate, falcate, acuminate, mostly 

 unsymmetrical, rather coriaceous, equally green on both 

 sides, venation prominent, spreading, intramarginal vein 

 well removed from the edge. Average size say 13 cm. by 

 3 cm. broad. 



Mature leaves much smaller, say 9 cm. by 1 cm. broad, 

 rather thick, shiny, plentifully besprinkled with black dots, 

 venation the same, resembling those of intermediate leaves. 



Buds stellulate and somewhat angled when very young, 

 more clavate as maturity approaches. Operculum conical, 

 the calyx-tube tapering into a short pedicel. 



Flowers. Paniculate, 4 to 10 in the individual umbel,, 

 which has a slightly flattened common peduncle under 1 

 cm. long. Anthers kidney-shaped. 



Fruit hemispherical to nearly pilular, diameter about 

 5 mm. with a well defined smooth rim, tips of the valves 

 either sunk, or not protruding beyond the orifice. The 

 fruit is sharply separated from the filiform pedicel. 



Habitat. As stated. The tree is said to also occur in 

 the Liverpool district, but I have been unable to verify this* 



Affinities. 

 This is an anomalous, rare and apparently local species, 

 and one naturally looks upon it as a hybrid. At the same 

 time hybridism is difficult to prove. Of course it is not 

 necessary to prove that the assumed parents are to be 

 found, at the present time, in close juxtaposition to the 

 individuals from which one obtained material in the present 

 case. The parents may be some distance away and the 

 seed of the tree may have been conveyed in a number of 

 ways. Possibly the parents are E. eugenioides, Sieb. and 

 E. haemastoma, Sm. var. micrantha, Benth. Let us con- 

 sider these in detail. 



