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ably in proportion of length to breadth, being 3—7 times 
as long as broad; midrib distinct on both surfaces, but lat- 
eral nerves usually hardly discernible, especially in those 
leaves of a thicker texture. Flowers in umbels in t he leaf 
axils or on the older wood from which the leaves have 
fallen, the uppermost ones sometimes forming small ter- 
minal panicles; peduncles, pedicels, calyx tube, oper- 
culum, etc*., as in H. aemenioides, the flowers being the 
same except that perhaps usually they are a little more 
robust. Seed capsule broadly turbinate or more rarely 
subglobose, 3 — 5 lines diarn., 3 — 5 (mostly 4 1 celled, rim 
narrow, valves included or flush with the top. 
Distribution.— —The t-Jpe came from Nort li-enstorn 
New South Wales, but Maiden in his “Britical Revision 
of the Genus Eucalyptus” 1., 267, records it as far south 
as Broken Bay, at the mouth of the tlawkesbury River. 
It is the common form in Queensland, and extends from 
the New South Wales border to the Bairns limber district, 
and occurs in a variety -of formations. It does not seem 
to occur more than about 70 miles inland. 
Common Names. — “Yellow Stringy hark ” in Queens- 
land, and “White Mahogany” in New South Wales; not 
generally distinguished by timber getters, dc.. from E. . 
aemenioides. 
Botanical Name. — Eucalyptus (see under No. 1) 
aemenioides (see under No. 14), earnea. Batin, fleshy, 
referring to the thick leaves. 
Timber: — -But and sold in Queensland mills as a 
general hardwood. 
Botanical References. — E. aemenioides Schauer var. 
earnea (Baker) Maiden m “A Critical Revision of the 
Genus Eucalyptus” 1. 267. E. earnea R. T. Baker, in 
Proceedings Linnean Society X.S.AV.. Yol. XXXI , p 303 
(1906). 
16. Eucalyptus umbra (Yellow Stringhark). 
Description. — A medium sized tree with a rough 
fibrous bark, inner hark dark reddish brown, but the 
outermost layer usually bleached a dark grey, and com- 
monly -more or less blackened by fire: like K. aemenioides 
var. earnea, the fibrous hark is persistent almost to the 
topmost branches. Young branchlets angular bul soon 
becoming terete, the angularity very marked on the young 
coppice shoots: those latter are also often deep vinous 
purple. Coppice leaves or leaves of young trees at first 
often sub-opposite and sessile, but soon becoming alternate 
and petiolate and merging into the adult form; blade at 
first membraneous, but soon becoming thicker and rather 
