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DESCRIPTION. 



CCLIL E. eremophila Maiden. 



Ill Joimi. Roy. Soc. N.S.W., liv. 71 (1920). 



Following is the original description : — 



Frutex vel arbor mediocris, cortice Iteve, squamosa, ramulis glaucescentibus ; foliis junioribus 

 angusto-laneeolatis vel lanceolatis; foliis matiiris lineari-lanceolatis ad lanceolatis, coriaceis, niteutibus 

 venis secondariis tenuibus sed remotiuscidis, non pennivenis, peduiiculis elougatis, applauatis, pedicellis 

 fere teretibus ca. 5 mm. longis, calycis tubo oblongo vel cylindroideo, turbiuato, ca. 5 mm. longo ; operculo 

 cornuto calycis tubo ca. quinquies fequilongo, diametro distincte minore ;>filamentis antherisque cofnutis 

 similibus ; fructibus cylindroideis vel spheericis, calycis tubo crasso, capsulse apice applanato fere margini 

 aequante, fructu truncato. 



A shrub or medium-sized tree, with smooth, scaly bark. Brancblets glaucesceut. 



Juvenile leaves (suckers) not available, in the earliest stage, but probably narrow. Those of 

 the seedlings are narrow-lanceolate to lanceolate. 



Mature leaves linear-lanceolate to lanceolate, coriaceous, shiny, not glancescent, the secondary 

 veins fine but rather distant, and, at all events in the intermediate stage, spreading and roughly parallel , 

 not feather-veined. 



Peduncles elongate, flattened ; pedicels nearly terete, distinct, about 5 mm. long. 



Calyx-tube oblong or cylindroid turbinate, about 5 mm. long. 



Operculum sometimes coloured (reddish), straight or horn-shaped, up to 5 times as long as the 

 calyx-tube, and much less in diameter. Filaments yellowish, sometimes crimson, angular, glandular, and 

 with anthers as in the Cornutfe. 



Fruits cylindroid to spherical ; top of the capsule nearly flush with the rim, giving the fruit, when 

 not fully ripe, a characteristically truncate, flatfish appearance. When the fruit is ripe its n\outh becomes 

 rounded and somewhat contracted. 



SYNONYM. 



E. occidental is Rndlicher, var. eremophila Diels, in Englers Jahrh., xxxv, 442, 

 1905. See also Part XXXVI, p. 147, of the present work. Figured at Plate 149, 

 figures 7-11. 



The relations of E. occidentalis Endl. var. grandiflora Maiden (Part XXXVI, 

 p. 149, and figures 1 and 2, Plate 150) to E. eremophila remain a matter for further 

 consideration. 



