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DESCRIPTION. 



CCLXXXII. E. Jutsoni Maiden. 



In Joum. Roy. Soc. N.S.W., liii, (51 (1919). 



Following is the original description : — 



Frutex parvus ramulosus circiter 6-8 altus, trunco tenue. Ramulorum aj^icibus planis mox 

 teretibus. Poliis maturis brevissime petiolatis, angusto-linearibus, 7-5-9 cm. longis, crassis, duris venis 

 inconspicuis. Pedimculis brevissimis vel absentibus 2-4 floris; calycis tubo conoideo operculo acuminato 

 conoideo asquilongo. Antheris E. amjustissimce similibus. Flores non vidimus. 



'■ A small, thia-stemmed, branching-from-the-root-gum, about 6 to 8 feet high on the average. 

 White flowers, yellow pointed buds. Ants very numerous on the bark " (J. T. Jutson). Branchlets 

 flattened at the tips, but soon becoming terete. 



Juvenile leaves not seen. 



Mature leaves very shortly petiolate, narrow linear, acuminate, slightly twisted, 7-5-9 cm. 

 (say 3-3| inches) long, wiry, thickish and tough, the veins inconspicuous, often channelled at the 

 inconspicuous midrib. 



Peduncles axillary, very short or absent, flattened, each with two to four flowers. 



Buds sessile or tapering into a short, flattened pedicel-like process, the calyx-tube conoid, and of 

 the same length as the acuminate conical operculum. 



Flowers.— Stamens inflected in the bud, anthers renantheroid {i.e., somewhat resembling the 

 Renantherae), and apparently similar to those of E. angustissima. Style long, the stigma scarcely 

 thickened, the ovary conical. 



Fruits not seen. 



Type from Comet Vale, W.A. (John Thomas Jutson, No. 216. Formerly Geological Surveyor 

 on the staff of the Geological Survey of Western Australia.) 



RANGE. 



It is only known from Comet Vale, a township on the railway line 63 miles north 

 of Kalgoorlie, Western Australia. 



