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closely packed, almost compressed, running mostly in radial 

 lines, very thick walled, with numerous perforations, ovate 

 in outline and at regular intervals in the long axis of this 

 element; the lumen containing a dark deposit as well as 

 the wood parenchyma, which is spare and scattered irregu- 

 larly amongst the wood elements, and in a few cells of 

 which crystals were detected. The rays are numerous and 

 two cells wide and a few in height, and most of the cells 

 contained a brown deposit. 



General. — In general features such as leaves, buds, fruits 

 it very closely resembles E. crebra, and from herbarium 

 material alone might easily be mistaken for E. crebra, but 

 the timber at once readily differentiates it from that 

 species. The chief differences from the type of E. panicu- 

 lata are the shape and size of the fruits, shape of the leaves, 

 timber and bark. In botanical sequence it may be placed 

 after the type E. paniculata. 



This form was probably detected first by Dr. Woolls, for 

 Bentham, PI. Aus., Vol. in, p. 212, gives varietal rank to 

 it under E. paniculata var. angustifolia, Woolls. Dr.Woolls 

 mentions it in his article under Eucalypts, published 

 amongst others in book form under the title of " Flora of 

 Australia," p. 243, 1867, in these words; — "In the form 

 angustifolia the flowers are very small." He again refers 

 to it in Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., 1880, p. 503, as only to be 

 distinguished from E. crebra by having its outer stamens 

 anantherous, although practical men easily distinguish 

 them by their wood and bark. Maiden, in his Orit. Rev. 

 Euc. Vol. II, records this variety, p. 104, and figures a 

 flowering specimen, fig. 21, pi. 57. 



The chief features are so distinct from the type E. panicu- 

 lata, that it is now proposed to raise it to specific rank 

 under the name of E. Beyeri, after Mr. George Beyer, 

 who for several years was Herbarium Assistant in the 



