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No. 87. 
Eucalyptus Planchoniana, F.v.M. 
Bastard Tallow-wood. 
("Family MYRTACE^E.) 
Botanical description. —Genus Eucalyptus. (See Part II, p. 33.) 
Botanical description. —Species Flanchoniana, E.v.M. in Fray men la Fhyt. 
Austral, xi, 43 (November, 1878). Following is Mueller’s description, taken 
from the “ Eucalyptographia ” :—■ 
Lranchlets very angular. 
Leaves scattered, sickle-shaped-lanceolar, prolonged into a narrow apex, slightly less shining 
beneath, not pellucid-dotted, with subtle, much spreading, not crowded veins, the circum¬ 
ferential vein somewhat removed from the edge. 
Flowers. —3-7 together on solitary axillary, broadly compressed stalks. 
Stalklets thick, very short, or hardly any. 
Tube oj the calyx cylindrical-semiovate, furrowed. 
Lid ( Operculum) from a semiovate base, narrow-conical, about as long as the tube, both 
longitudinally streaked. 
Stamens all fertile. 
Anthers ovate or roundish-cordate, opening with longitudinal slit?. 
Style rather long. 
Stigma not dilated. 
Fruit comparatively large, globose-ovate, truncated, d-d-cel led, streaked by angular lines; their 
margin narrow, vertically descending; valves short, deltoid, rather deeply enclosed. 
Seeds without any appendage ; the sterile not much smaller than the fertile seeds. 
As a matter of convenience of reference, Mueller’s original description of the 
species, taken from the Fragmenta , is given herewith : — 
“ Arborea, ramulis acutangulis, foliis falcato-lanceolatis tenui-acuminatis concoloribus remotiuscule 
et persubtiliter penniveniis imperforatis, vena periplieriea a margine evidenter distante, pedunculis axillaribus 
solitariis dilatatis ancipiti-compressis 3-7- floris, pedicellis vix ullis, alabastris junioribus ellipsoideo- 
cylindraceis basim versus compressis angulosis, fructibus majusculis globoso-ovatis truncatis angulato- 
striatis quadrirarius tri-loculatis, margine orificii satis tenui fere verticaliter descendente valvis inclusis 
seminibus apteris, fertibus pleraque sterilia magnitudine parum excedentibus. In collibus aridis subarenosis 
prope sinum orarium Moreton Bay; F. Bailey. Folia 4-6" longa, §—l^-" lata, nitidula. Stomata solum 
hypogena, circiter 165,000 intra pollicem quadratum. Pedunculi petiolos superantes, pollicares vel paulo 
longiores, superne 2"' lati. Flores evolutos nondum accepi. Alabastra circiter semipollicaria. Operculum 
forsan tubo calycis aequilongum ; sutura adhuc occulta. Stamina ante expansionem infracta, Antherae 
tantum in junioribus alabastris observatae, turn fere globosae, sed glandula terminalis turn magnum 
spatium occupans. Fructus 8-10'" longi et vix minus lati brevissime et crasse pedicellati. Semina fertilia 
1-11"' nietientia, prominenter et subtus saepe radiate angulosa. Speciem lianc novam habeo proximam 
E. Luehmannianae ; caret autem colore ramulorum et innovationum albicante ; consistentia foliorum est 
tenuior; venae eorum angulo minus acuto patentes sunt, pedunculi paulo longiores et angustiores, alabastra 
saltern prima juventute non umbonata, fructus aliquoties majores adorificium evidenter contracti, margo 
verticis abrupte descendens, loculi pauciores, semina majora.” 
