414 R. T. BAKER. 



Robert Brown's specimen, collected at Port Jackson, and 

 although only in bud and flower yet distinctly shows it to 

 be the White Ironbark as now generally understood, and 

 this of course must stand as the type E. paniculata. 



All trees with this form of inflorescence have a white or 

 very pale coloured timber, and under the name White or 

 Grey Ironbark are now generally accepted as typical E. 

 paniculata, (Woolls and Maiden both agreeing that this is 

 the colour of this timber) there is no alternative but to let 

 such nomenclature stand. 



Maiden states, (Jour. Roy. Soc. N.S.W., Vol. xlvii, p. 84), 

 '*' E. paniculata is referred to by Mueller in Bucalypto- 

 graphia by mistake on the alleged authority of the late Dr. 

 Woolls, who in his own copy of that work (in my possession) 

 cancelled the word 'red' and inserted 'white.'" 



Description. — A large forest tree, with a grey or black 

 coloured, deeply furrowed, corky, thick bark, permeated 

 more or less with kino, except the inner portion which is 

 very close and compact almost as hard as the wood itself. 

 Probably it is this black coating of the bark that has given 

 rise to the common name of "Black Ironbark" in some 

 localities such as Port Macquarie. Leaves practically all 

 lanceolate, the initial leaves broadly lanceolate, earlier 

 two or three inclined to ovate, marginal vein removed from 

 the edge, although in some cases quite close to it, venation 

 oblique, but more marked than in the normal leaves, which 

 have quite indistinct veins. Inflorescence paniculate. 

 Operculum conical, either longer or shorter than the calyx, 

 which varies from pyriform to slightly hemispherical. 

 Fruits pyriform, urnshaped, or inclined to hemispherical, 

 the pyriform varies in length from 3 to 4 lines and under 3 

 lines in diameter, slightly less in the other forms ; the rim 

 is flat, some forms have a half round ring below the outer 

 edge and valves deeply inserted, sometimes the valves are 



