418 R. T. BAKER. 



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3. Eucalyptus Nanglei, sp. nov. 



(Pink Ironbark.) 



Description, — An average forest tree with a very thick, 

 compact, deeply furrowed bark, containing large quantities 

 of kino. Leaves lanceolate, the early-growth leaves might 

 be described as broadly lanceolate, and of a thin texture ; 

 veins finely prominent, and not very oblique; usual leaves 

 mostly straight, lanceolate, venation not at all prominent; 

 lateral veins oblique, and more so than in the earlier leaves; 

 intramarginal vein rather close to the edge. Inflorescence 

 paniculate or axillary at the ends of the branchlets, but in 

 the fruiting stage, the leaves having fallen, the capsules 

 appear in quite a paniculate form. Buds under an inch 

 long, calyx pyriform; operculum conical. Fruits inclined 

 to pilular, constricted at the rather short pedicel or pyri- 

 form, more or less contracted at the rim, where it is more 

 or less flat or broad; in some instances very slightly ribbed 

 at the base or pedicel, valves not exserted, or just a little so. 



Timber. — A very fine timber with a distinct clear pink 

 or red colour, and having the facies rather of E. rostrata^ 

 E. tereticornis, or E. propinqua, than that of an ironbark. 

 It may be described as close grained, heavy, hard, but does 

 not plane to so bony a face as ironbarks, having a tendency 

 to splinter up almost immediately after planing. It is not 

 so heavy as other ironbarks, probably being the lightest in 

 weight of any of them. 



Anatomical.— A close textured wood made up mostly of 

 compact thick walled fibres of varying diameters, gener- 

 ally running in a radial direction, the perforations being 

 numerous but not so conspicuous as in the previous species* 

 The vessels are fairly numerous, with bordered pits on the 

 walls and mostly plugged with tyloses. The most con- 

 spicuous features of the wood are multiseriate bands of 

 wood parenchyma running in the direction of the annual 



