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Eucalyptus Bakeri Maiden. 
Baker's Gum. -^> ' - 
(Family M YRTACE^E.) 
Botanical description. Genus Eucalyptus, see Part ii, p. 23. 
Botanical description. Species Bakeri Maiden, in Journ. Roy. Soc. N.S.W., 
xlvii, 87 (1913). 
A large shrub or small, pendulous, Willow-like tree, attaining a height of 30-50 feet, forming a single 
stem or stooling from the ground. , 
Juvenile leaves dull green on both sides, linear-lanceolate, hardly acuminate, about 6 or 7 cm. long, 
the venation not distinct, the intramarginal vein close to the edge, the lateral veins penniveined, 
plentifully besprinkled with oil-dots and the branchlets angular and glandular. 
Mature leaves linear-lanceolate, petiolate, acuminate or with a hooked tip, bright-green, dull-shiny, 
richly covered with oil-dots, venation indistinct, the intramarginal vein distinct from the edge, the lateral 
veins penniveined. Average dimensions 9 by 1 cm. 
(If the species were gregarious, it would probably be found to be a valuable oil-yielding species.) 
Flowers. Umbels mostly axillary and flowers numerous, often 10-13 in an umbel, which sometimes 
takes on a stellulate appearance. Operculum elongated, very much larger than the calyx-tube, which 
is of slightly increased diameter, and which tapers, somewhat abruptly, into the short pedicel. The common 
peduncle about 1 cm. 
Anthers small, renantheroid, but the two cells more united than in the Renantheree; spherical 
gland at top and back. 
Fruits. Small, about 5 mm. in diameter, truncate-spheroid, the tips of the valves awl-shaped, and 
protruding 2 mm. from the orifice. 
Botanical Name. Eucalyptus, already explained (see Part II, p. 34) ; Bakeri, 
in honour of Richard Thomas Baker, who has done valuable work in connection with this 
genus, and who has co-operated with Mr. Henry George Smith in " Research on the 
Eucalypts," and in many other smaller works on the genus. The two species, which 
commemorate the names of these partners, will be found described in the present 
Part. 
Vernacular Name. " Baker's Gum " is the name I propose, since it has 
none other than an inappropriate appellation in the bush. 
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