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No. 98. 
Eucalyptus niacrorrhyncka, F.v.M. 
Red Striiigybark. 
(Family MYRTACE^E.) 
Botanical description. —Genus, Eucalyptus. (See Part II, p. 33.) 
Botanical description. —Species, macrorrhyncha, F.v.M. 
Mueller ( Census , & c.) quotes ‘' First General Report of the Government 
Botanist of Victoria, 1853,” as the authority for this name. It is there spelt as I 
have given it. The species was not, however, described until Vol. Ill of the “Flora 
Australiensis” (18G6). See B.F1. iii, 207, and Mueller’s “ Eucalyptograpliia.” 
This, in its typical form, is a very easily recognised species. The buds are, 
when fully developed, large, rhomboidal in longitudinal section, with pointed oper¬ 
culum, and the pedicels are long, so that the flowers and fruits form loose heads. 
It may be described as follows :— 
Juvenile foliage (figured in the Eucalyptograpliia). —The leaves may be described as follows:— 
Elliptical, margins undulate and irregularly toothed. Small tufts of hairs along the margin. 
The twigs, midribs and veins, and even the soft tissue more or less besprinkled with stellate 
hairs, the twigs abundantly so. 
Mature leaves. —Usually 4 to 6 inches long and 1 to 1 f inches wide. Rather coriaceous, equally 
green on both sides. . Venation spreading, prominent, particularly the midrib. Intra¬ 
marginal vein at some distance from the edge. Twigs and leaf-stalks angular. 
Buds. —These are strongly pelicellate, and the edge of the calyx-tube forms a prominent ring, 
while the operculum is often curved, acuminate and often lengthened out into a point. In 
the matter of shape one cannot help likening them to those of E. roslrata, which, however, 
are small in comparison. 
The buds are usually more or less angular, and in the typical form are very angular. 
In extreme forms the angularity disappears. 
Fruits. —These vary somewhat in shape and size, but, owing to the long pedicels, the prominent 
edge of the rim, and the domed top, they can us m lly be recognised. 
They vary as to amount of doming, so that eventually, in some specimens, the rim is 
obliterated. Valves well exsert. 
The diameter of typical fruits is not much more than § inch at its greatest (rim) 
width. 
A particularly large-fruited form has been collected by Mr. R. T. Baker in the 
Rylstone district, where trees with fruits of ordinary size are also found. Large fruits (not 
so large as the Rylstone ones) are also found with the ordinary ones at Howell (J.H.M). 
Timber. —This seems in every respect to resemble that of E. capitellata. It is the common Gold¬ 
fields Stringybark, and its timber is brown. 
