NOTES ON EUCALYPTUS. 459" 



or less glaucous, as also the petioles, young leaves and fruits, the- 

 whole plant perhaps largely glaucous at certain seasons. 



Juvenile leaves. Not seen. 



Mature leaves. Very thick, coriaceous, dull to shiny, of an olive 

 green, and the same colour on both sides, lanceolate to ovate, 

 petiolate, the base ending rather abruptly in a petiole of 2 cm., the 

 lanceolate leaves mostly tapering into a fine point, about 10 cm. 

 (4 inches) long, or shorter, and about 2*5 cm. (1J inch) broad,, 

 both surfaces entirely covered with innumerable fine black dots, 

 the midrib and secondary veins moderately prominent, the second- 

 ary veins spreading and roughly parallel, making an angle of 

 about 45° with the midrib, the intramarginal vein distinctly 

 removed from the edge. 



Buds. Cylindroid, the blunt cylindrical operculum about twice 

 as long as the slightly ribbed calyx-tube, about 5 to 8 in the umbel, 

 on a decurved peduncle of 2-5 cm., each calyx-tube gradually 

 tapering into a pedicel of under 1 cm. 



Flowers. "The bloom is evidently a large pale yellow." (Vachell). 

 Anthers large, with parallel cells and large gland at back. 



Fruits. Moderately large, conoid, flat-topped, rather gradually 

 tapering into a flattish pedicel, with two especially prominent 

 longitudinal ribs or wings running from the rim and causing an 

 expansion of the pedicel, together with a number of less prominent 

 ribs of which tw T o are only secondary to the main ones, rim moder- 

 ately broad and flat, with four deltoid or acicular tips of the valves 

 distinctly protruding beyond the orifice and encased with the 

 whitish remains of the capsule-lining. 



"Baronrath," via Kellerberrin, W.A. Flowers and ripe 

 fruit, September, 1903, nearly ripe fruit, December, 1903, 

 (P. Harvey Vachell). 



"Grows on the sand-plains about here. I have only met 

 with a small group of them." Although I have made a 

 number of attempts to obtain additional material I have 



