Botanical description
— Species Eucalyptus acceders, Blume, Bijdrag., 246.
An erect tree 70 to 80 feet high, thinly pubescent or glabrous.
Bark. — Light-coloured, somewhat thick and corky.
Leaves. — Trifoliate.
Petioles. — 1 to 3 inches long.
Leaflets. — 2 1/2 to 5 inches long, ovate, shortly acuminate, chartaceous, pale on the under side, shortly petiolulate.
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Cymes. — Lateral, the flowers croweded, pink, turning bluish as they die away.
Peduncles. — Short.
Perlicles. — About as long as the flowers.
Calyx-lobes. — About 1 1ine long.
Petals. — 2 to 3 lines long, slightly imbricate.
Filaments. — Glabrous, filiform, 1 lines long.
Anthters. — Oblong.
Disc-lobes. — Semi-orbicular.
Style. — 3 to 4 lines long, shortly pubescent.
Stigma. — Minute, capitate, 4-lobed.
Ovary. — Velvety.
Cocci. — Four or less by abortion, slightly compressed, globose-ovate, about 3 lines long.
Seeds. — Dark reddish-brown, ovate globose, 1 1/2 line long.