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No. 207. 
Eucalyptus a f finis Deane and Maiden. 
An Ironbark Box. 
(Family MYRTACE^E.) 
Botanical description. Genus, Eucalyptus. (See Part II, p. 33.) 
Botanical description. Species, E. affinis Deaue and Maiden, in Proc. Linn. 
Soc. N.S. TT., xxv, 104 (1900), with a plate. 
A tree of moderate size, attaining a height of 80 feet, and a diameter of 2 feet 6 inches. 
Bark. To quote from a letter by Mr. II. H. Cambage : " In appearance it looks half Ironbark 
and half Box, and has strong affinities to both. Often the butt in old trees is nearly as 
rough as that of E. sideroxylon, but seldom quite, while the upper part resembles E. albens 
(E. hemiphkia var. albens) ; but in general it has a dark brown, fairly rough bark an inch 
thick, and is easily distinguished from the other trees. The bark is thinner and softer than 
E. sideroxylon, but harder and thicker than E. albens." 
Timber. Of a medium brown colour, inlocked, hard and tough, greasy to the touch, better 
esteemed locally than the wood of either E. hemiphloia or E. sideroxylon, among which it 
grows. 
Juvenile leaves. Alternate, ovate, obtuse, slightly emarginate and mueronate (in our specimens) ; 
about 3 inches long by 1 j| broad ; intramarginal vein at a considerable distance from the edge. 
Mature leaves. Lanceolate, slightly falcate ; pale coloured, dull on both sides, rather coriaceous, 
usually 2 to 3 inches long ; veins at an angle of about 30 with the midrib, but incon- 
spicuous except the midrid and the thickened margin ; intramarginal vein inconspicuous 
and at some distance from the edge. 
Peduncles axillary, flattened at first, but nearly terete when the fruit is ripe ; with three to seven 
flowers. 
Buds. -Shaped like a tip cat, to use a homely expression, i.e., tapered equally towards base and 
operculum ; somewhat angular, the operculum attenuate. Calyx-tube likewise attenuate, 
tapering into a short pedicel. Anthers in the bud all folded ; stamens white, the outer ones 
seemingly all fertile ; anthers opening in terminal pores. Style and stigma as figured at 
fig. 6, E. hemiphkia, in the Eucalyptographia. 
Fruits. Ovate-truncate, tapered at the base, somewhat contracted at the orifice, about 3 lines in 
diameter, the rim narrow, slightly convex and dark-coloured; the capsule depressed (loo. cii.). 
It exhibits a good deal of resemblance, so far as herbarium specimens are 
concerned, to Eucalyptus Caleyi, which has been dealt with in Part LV. 
E. Caleyi is, however, an Ironbark with red timber. E. qffiuis is an 
Ironbark Box with a pale brown timber, often with a dash of red in it, Avhich may 
be assumed to vary according to the preponderance of the Ironbark parent. Further, 
the colour of a timber varies within certain limits with the age and climatic conditions 
of the tree. 
