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Folia primaria 3-3.5 cm, longa, .75 iiini. lata; folia ordinaria 5-7 cm. longa, 
2 nun. lata, rare 3 mm. lata; pediinculus S mm. longiis; pedioelhis 3.5-4 mm. 
longus; calyx 2 mm. longus; operciilnm 3-4.5 mm. longum; fnictus 4.5 X 2.5 mm. 
Hal), in distr. Coolgardie ad titles boreali prope “Die Hardy Eange/^ a 
vico Southern Cross, 175 km. septentrionem versus in frntieetis apertis 
arenosis, F. G. Forv}cm et R, S. Matheson^ July, 1940. 
Althongii dowers have not been seen, this species can be delinitely 
assigned to the ^IHafyantherae. It is close to E. Kocliti IVIaiden & Blakely, 
but is a fairly large tree with the liark of E. longicornis F, MuFl.; the leaves 
however are narrower and conspicuously oil-dotted with a + impressed 
midrib, tlie peduncle is more slender and elongated, the calyx much shorter 
and hcmisphericnl-turbinate, and the operculum elongated ovoid-rostrate or 
+ acutely conical with an erect beak which however is variable in length. 
The fruit is not as long as broad, and tlu' deltoid valves are not exserted. 
The primary leaves are quite unlike anything kjiown in the genus, being 
almost terete. 
This species ctuimiemorates the name of Francis Gloster Forman, Govern- 
ment Geologist of AVestern Australia, who brought me the first specimens 
of this ])lant. 
Eucalyptus orbifolia F. MacU. 
I have rcc(*ived fi'om Mr. G. E. Brockway, .Divisional Forests Ol'ficer 
at Kalgoorlie, through tl\e (k.>nservalor ol' For(^sts, (S. L. Kessell, Esq.), 
complete matei’ial of this si)ecies from tlu' Hosi>iLa] Ko('ks (West of Mulliue), 
and from Pigeon Rocks north of Bullfinch. (k)nsidei5iig th<^ inte)‘est that 
has surrounded this long lost species, of which only the small ty])e si>ecime)i 
in the Kew Hcu'harium was previously known, the re-discovei\v of the sp(*cies 
is of exceptional iuter(*st. The folloAving description is taken from i\Ir. 
BrockwayV si>ecimens : — 
Mallee, attaining a height of 25 feet, although usually about 18 feet high 
(Brockway) ; stems 5-() cm. thick, with a u'aiun red flaky striated thin persist- 
ent bark Avith decorticates leaving a i>ale green bark lietween the strijAS, heart- 
A\mod pale nal, closely grained. Bi-anclilcts reddisli-pruinose, terete. L(‘a.ves 
alternate, l)roadly obovate-oi'bicnlar, shortly tapei'ing at th(‘ base into a 
slender jx’tiolc of 1.5-2 cm., th(‘ lamina 3-7 cm. long ami al)oiit of ecpial 
breadth oi' even broadm*, obtuse to retuse, glaucous, rather ])rominent!y 
veined, the secondary veins roughly parallel but i'(miot(*, tlu‘ intraniarginal 
vein distant from the margin. Peduncles axillary or lateral, erect-spreading, 
straight, pruinose oi‘ reddish, slightly 2-ang]ed, slightly thickened towards 
the a])ex, 1.5-2. 5 cm. long, hearing an umbel of from 2 to 5 floAvers; pedicels 
thick, subter(‘te, 5-9 mm. long, divaricate; calyx-tube almost hemispherical, 
but shortly tapering into the ])(Mlicel, 5 mm. long, and 8 mm. In-oad; opercidum 
hemispherical-conical, not mvieh longer than the ealyx-tube, usually about as 
long, longitudinally striate, the striae not V(U'y conspicuous, glaucous, as well 
as the calyx and ]>edieel; stamens pale yellow, immei’ous, the filaments 
flexuose in the Inid, 5-G mm. long; anthers oA^ate, opoiing outwards in longi- 
tudinal slits, the giatjd .small, dorsal; style thick, conical, thicker tlian in any 
other species obserA'ed. Fruit liemis])herieal-campanulate, 1 cm. long. 1.7 
cm. broad, smootli oi* striate, pruinose-glaucons, the disc broad and fiat, tlie 
valves subulate-deltoid, prominently exserted; seeds black, triangnlar-cuneate, 
not Avinged. E. Wehslen'anti Maiden, is very close to this si)ecies, and perhaps 
a varietv onlv. 
