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crassis, venis tenuibus fere parallelibus angulura ca. 45° cum costa 

 formantibus. Alabastris magnis, clavatis, umbellis ad 6 capitulo 

 pedunculis applanatis; operculo hemi-ellipsoideo, mucrone breve. 

 Fructibus magnis, conoideo-hemisphericis, pedicello breve applan- 

 ato, calycis tubo duobus eostis prominentibus margine paullo 

 rotundata conspicua. 



A tall Grey Gum, whose trunk usually averages scarcely 

 two feet in diameter, but it may attain, exceptionally, 

 twice that size (A. Rudder). It is a tall tree with a 

 diameter of 4 feet, 70 feet to the lowest branches, the 

 whole tree being 90-120 feet high (J. L. Boorman, also 

 speaking of a Dungog tree). Bark smooth, but with 

 lenticular patches in places, like that of a Grey Gum (E. 

 punctata. 



Timber pale coloured, somewhat coarse-fibred, inter- 

 locked and tough, resembling that of Spotted Gum (E. 

 maculata) a good deal, and also that of Tallow-wood (E. 

 microcorys). The colour of the timber approximates to 

 pale snuff-brown, say Dauthenay, Rep. de Oouleurs, Plate 2, 

 shade 303. 



Juvenile leaves not seen in the earliest state, but some 

 still opposite are lanceolate to broadly-lanceolate, equally 

 green on both sides, with numerous fine, not prominent, 

 roughly parallel veins, at an angle of about 45° with the 

 midrib. Leaves about 5 or 6 cm. long and about half that 

 width, with petioles of 2 cm. 



Mature leaves of medium size, narrow-lanceolate, 

 petiolate, say 1-2 dm. long and 2-3*5 cm. broad, with 

 petioles say 2-3 cm. long, dark green, moderately thick 

 venation almost as in juvenile leaves. 



Buds large, clavate, umbels up to 6 in the head on flat- 

 tened expanding peduncles 2 cm. long and more, the calyx- 

 tubes with one or two opposite sharp ridges, gradually 

 tapering in short but distinct thick pedicels, the operculum 



