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No. 41. 
Angophora lanceolata, Cav. 
The Smooth-barked Apple. 
(Natural Order MYRTACEAE.) 
Botanical description. —Genus, Angophora, Cav. 
Calyx-tube. —Turbinate-campanulate, adnate to the ovary at the base, the free part broad and 
open, 5-angled, truncate, witli five small distinct teeth. 
Petals. —5, attached by their broad base, herbaceous and aristate, with coloured margins, much 
imbricate in the bud, spreading and separately deciduous. 
Stamens. —Numerous, free, in several series; filaments filiform ; anthers versatile, the cells 
parallel, opening longitudinally. 
Ovary. —Inferior, the flat summit glabrous, 3- or 4-celled, with many ovules in each cell, 
ascending on a peltate placenta; style subulate, with a capitate stigma. 
Capsule. —Enclosed in and adnate to the hardened truncate persistent calyx-tube, opening 
loculicidally in 3 or 4 valves. 
Seeds. —Perfect (where known), one in each cell, large, broad, very flat, peltately attached on the 
inner face ; testa thin ;• embryo straight ; cotyledons thin, flat, or folded over each other at 
the edge, deeply cordate, the radicle slightly clavate, scarcely protruding beyond the lobes 
of the cotyledons. 
Trees or shrubs, usually glaucous, pubescent, or hispid with bristly hairs. 
Leaves. —Opposite, or here and there alternate, coriaceous', penniveined. 
Flowers. —In umbel-like cymes, arranged in terminal corymbs. 
Bracts. —Exceedingly deciduous.-—(B.F1. iii, 183.) 
Botanical description. —Species, Angophora lanceolata, Cav. Ic. iv, 22, t. 339. 
A tree of considerable size, the bark deciduous in large smooth flakes as in A. cordifolia, branches 
and foliage glabrous and scarcely glaucous, or rarely a few bristles on the inflorescence. 
Leaves. —Distinctly petiolate, lanceolate, acuminate, mostly 3 to 5 inches long, coriaceous, with 
numerous fine parallel pinnate veins. 
Flowers. —In rather dense terminal corymbs or short panicles, larger and more dense than in 
A. intermedia , rather smaller than in A. cordifolia. 
Calyx. —Usually about 3 lines long and 4 lines broad at the top, the teeth very minute or at any 
rate shorter and thicker than in A. intermedia , and the secondary ribs often very short or 
quite inconspicuous. 
Fruiting calyx. —Usually thick and very smooth.—(B. El. iii, 184.) 
Angophora JFoodsiana, Bail. (Syn. Queensland El. 172), is A. intermedia, 
DC., var. Woodsiana, Bail. ( Queensland Flora ii, 605). In my opinion it should be 
A. lanceolata, Cav., var. TVoodsiana, for it is a smooth-barbed tree, stunted, and 
apparently a depauperate form of the species. 
