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DESCRIPTION. 



CCLXIV. E. eremophila Maiden. 



In Journ. Roij. Soc. N.S.W., liv, 71 (1920). 



Following is the original description : — 



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

 angusto-lanceolatis, vel lanceolatis ; foliis maturis lineari-lanceolatis ad lanceolatis, coriaceis, nitentibusj 

 venis secondariis tenuibus sed remotiusculis, non pennivenis ; pedunculis elongatis, applanatis, pedicellis 

 fere teretibus ca. 5 mm. longis, calycis tubo oblongo vel cyliudroideo, turbinate, ca. 5 mm. longo ; operculo 

 cornuto calycis tubo ca. quinquies aequilongo, diametro distincte minore, filamentis antherisque Comutis 

 similibus ; fructibus cylindroideis vel sphaericis, calycis tubo crasso, capsulee apice applanato fere margini 

 aequante, fructu truncate. 



A shrub or medium-sized tree, with smooth scaly bark, Branchlets glaucescent. 



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, net glaucescent, 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 cylindreid turbinate, about 5 mm. long. 



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

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

 with anthers as in the Cornutae. 



Fruits cylindroid to spherical ; top of the capsule nearly flush with the rim, giving the fruit when not 

 fully ripe a characteristically truncate flattish appearance. When the fruit is ripe its mouth becomes 

 rounded and somewhat contracted. 



As it is figured as indicated below, further illustrations do not appear to be 

 necessary at this place. 



vSYNONYM. 



E. occidentalis Endlicher var. eremophila Diels, in Engler's Jahrb., xxxv, 

 442, 1905. 

 See also this work, Part XXXVI, p. 147. Figured at Plate 149, figures 7-11 

 of the same work. 



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 

 „^nsideration. 



