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The rim of the calyx in this gum is very marked. The valves are well 
exserted and pale. The operculum and calyx are full of oil-dots. The leaves are 
dull, the veins are finer and less prominent than the type; the intramarginal vein 
is usually not so far distant. The peduncles are much broader and flatter than in 
the normal species ; the pedicels likewise are broader and flatter. The operculum 
is sub-cylindrical, much longer than the calyx, but the calyx is larger and the 
operculum smaller than in the normal species. The operculum is narrower than the 
calyx, giving the appearance of “ egg in egg-cup ” or acorn and cup. This shape is 
very marked. The pedicels, are flat and thick. The whole fruit is coarser in 
appearance than is that of the normal species. 
Mr. Boorman and I found this form at Jenniugs, on the New South Wales- 
Queensland border. It is a large scrambling tree, growing amongst masses of 
granite ; branches rather rotten; fruits broad-rimmed. It is in every way similar 
to Charles Stuart’s specimens. It is in the highest degree improbable that it will 
not be found in Queensland. Mr. J. L. Boorman found trees at Emmaville, which 
he thus described : “ Large trees growing throughout the district with a patchy bark 
(after the fashion of E. punctata ), leaves long, glaucous ; suckers, ovate to oblong; 
buds, long cylindrical, but rather pointed; fruits, with prominent valves.” The 
same form has been found by Mr. R. H. Cambage at Tingha. The buds, while the 
calyx is still of greater diameter than the operculum, have the operculum as long 
as that of var. latifolia (Swamp Gum). 
Then we come to the “ Orange Gum,” growing on ironstone and serpentine 
soil at Honeysuckle Plat, Port Macquarie. There are a few hundred trees, attaining 
no great size—say, 18 inches to 2 feet diameter, 12 feet to first fork, and 30 feet 
high. Timber, very deep red, especially when freshly cut; brittle, usually hollow, 
and the timber looked upon as inferior. The buds are precisely those of var. 
brevifolia, the fruits nearly so, while the leaves are 6 inches long. 
For specimens from Burpengary (Queensland), I am indebted to Dr. T. L. 
Bancroft. His notes are : “Wood, red; timber, useless ; grows in swamps near the 
coast; trunk and branches always crooked; tree very stunted, under 50 feet; decays 
in the centre ; very short in the grain. A common -tree from Redcliffe to Caboolture. 
I do not know its wider range.” 
The leaves are all lanceolate. Some of them are precisely of the texture of 
those of Honeysuckle Plat. Some leaves are more falcate and thicker. The buds 
show the egg-in-egg-cup arrangement, but the operculum varies from subulate to 
conical. Sometimes, particularly in the coarse foliaged specimens, the operculum 
becomes swollen in a ring at a little distance beyond the suture. In drying, such 
buds exhibit a constricted appearance—viz., just above and just below the swelling. 
The valves are markedly pale. 
To summarise, in var. brevifolia the leaves are usually 2-3 inches long. The 
coastal ones (Port Macquarie) are up to 6 or 7 inches long. The Burpengary 
