DESCRIPTION. 



CCXXIII. E. latifolia F.v.M. 



Joimi. Linn. Soc. iii, 94 (1859). 



FoLLOWiA'a IS a tran.s]ation of the original : — • 



A trco with somewhat terete branchlets, leaves sub-opposite or scattered, with rather long petioles, 

 broad or orbicular-ovate, obtuse, glaucescont, opaque, imperforate, thinly penniveined, intramarginal 

 vein very close to the edge, umbels terminal, paniculate, few flowered, peduncles and pedicels angular, 

 these twice as long as the former (E. melanofhloia, &c.). Fruits sub-campanulate, ccostate, 3-4 celled, 

 flat at the vertex, valves touching at the rim. 



Growing in ri])arian level ground, at the upper part of the Roper River, 8th July, 1856. Flowered 

 in the summer. 



A small or medium-sized tree, the bark, after the falling of the last ashy-coloured strips, is smooth 

 and yellowish. Leaves 2-3, rarely 4 inches long, often 2 inches broad, with a petiole of almost an inch 

 long, thickly and faintly penniveined as those of E. bigalerita {E. alba Reinw., see Part XXV, p. 96, of the 

 present work). Umbels simply and compositely paniculate. Fruit about 3 lines long, the margin slightly 

 bent back at the mouth. Valves included. I have not found the flowers. 



In habit similar to E. higaleriia, but in its characters rather resembling E. dichromophloia. 



In spite of his reference to the inflorescence, it was either not seen by Mueller, 

 or he had lost it (see under E. FoelscJieana, p. 8). At all events, it has been figured 

 (fig. 26, Plate 168) for the first time. The individual umbels have six to twelve flowers. 

 The colour of the timber is red. 



Then Bentham (B.Fl, iii, 255) described it in English as follows : — 



A small or middle-sized tree, with a smooth ash-grey bark, tardily separating from the inner brownish 

 bark, also smooth {F. Mueller). Leaves alternate, or here and there almost opposite, petiolate, ovate, obtuse, 

 with transverse parallel veins, rather more prominent and not so close as in the allied narrow-leaved species. 

 Flowers rather large, four to six in each umbel, in a large terminal corymbose panicle. Peduncles terete ; 

 pedicels terete, shorter than the calyx-tube. Calyx-tube broadly turbinate, four to five lines in diameter, 

 rather thick. Oiierculum very short, slightly convex. Anthers ovate-oblong, with parallel distinct cells. 

 Fruits globose-truncate or urceolate-globose, with a very short neck, smooth, and not ribbed, 3 to 4 lines 

 in diameter, the rim thin ; the capsule deeply sunk. Seeds winged. 



