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petiolate from their earliest stages, elliptical, tapering slightly 
into the petiole and into a terminal point, venation looped. 
Juvenile leaves.— Thin, glabrous, paler on the lower side, 
petiolate, ovate-acuminate, about twice as long as broad (say 
four by two inches), midrib prominent, distinctly raised on the 
lower surface and exhibiting a slight channelling on the upper ; 
lateral veins nearly parallel, making an angle of about 130° with 
the midrib, very fine, intramarginal vein not conspicuous and 
not far removed from the leaf-margin. 
Mature leaves. — Coriaceous, equally green on both sides, 
drying pale, nearly symmetrical, broadly lanceolate, up to 6 
inches long and more commonly a quarter of that wide in the 
widest part, with a distinct midrib and abundant fine lateral 
parallel veins, making about an angle of 30° with the midrib, 
scarcely visible in mature leaves, circumferential vein marginal 
or very close to it, oil-dots fine, the leaves not rich in oil. 
Buds and flowers. — A profuse flowerer. Expanded flowers 
not seen and only three-quarter grown buds.* Inflorescence a 
compound panicle, peduncles very angular. Buds in umbels 
up to 7 in the head on a long flat peduncle, the buds nearly 
sessile, the angular calyces tapering into the very short pedicels. 
Operculum nearly hemispherical and less than half the length 
of the calyx. 
Fruits. — Truncate pear-shaped, with a marked angle and fre- 
quently a second one diametrically opposite to it. Barely I cm. 
long and slightly less in greatest diameter. Rim sunk, three 
to four valved, with the points of the valves completely sunk 
within the orifice or approaching the same ; not seen protruding. 
Arbor altus, cortice fibrosa, ligno pallido et fissile. 
Foliis juvenibus tenuis, glabris, pallidioribus inferiore latere, petiolatis, 
veil is, lateralibus tere parallelis et tenuisissimis. 
Foliis maturis coriaceis, lato lanceolatis, venis lateralibus tenuibus 
Pedunculis angularibus gemmis operculis fere hemisphericis Flores non 
vidi. 
Fructibus truncatis similibus piro formatis, aperte angularibus, vix 1 
cm longis et aliquanto minis maxtmo diametro. Margine depresso, apicibus 
valvularum omnino in orificio. 
Affinities. — I. With E. diversicolor, F. v. M. 
The affinities of the two species, as far as herbarium specimens 
are concerned, are vert' close. The bark of E. diversicolor is 
smooth and the timber red ; these two characters sharply dif- 
ferentiate the two trees in the bush. 
The seedlings of the two species are very similar. 
* I have been trying for over four years to get ripe buds and a few 
flowers, but without success. 
An immature anther taken out of these unripe buds shows a large gland 
at the back, but the pores or the slits are not developed. In approaching 
maturity, the comparative size of the gland diminishes. The anther seems 
to be nearest to that of E. ochrophloia (F. v. M.). 
