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DESCRIPTION. 



LX XVIII. E, deeurva, F.v.M. 



The original description will be found in Fragm. iii, 130 (1863), and, as confusion 

 has ai'isen in I'egard to it, I give a translation. 



Shrubby, branches soon terete, pruinose, leaves alternate or irregularly opposite, moderately petiolate, 

 ovate-or falcate-lanceolate, acuminate with a hooked point, equally coloured on both sides, indistinctly 

 and distantly penniveined, imperforate, the marginal vein obscure and distant from the margin, solitary 

 few-flowered axillary or lateral umbels, with rather slender slightly compressed peduncles, jjed'iceZs recurved 

 about as long as the calyx, shorter than the peduncle, narroiv-campanulate calyx-tubes nearly itvice as long 

 as the hemispherical finely apiculate operculum, hut hardly so broad, anthers cordate-ovate, fruits truncate- 

 ovate, without ribsj gradually contracted towards the orifice, with included valves and wingless seeds. 



In shrubby places near Perongerup (Porongorups), Western Australia. Maxw. (Maxwell). 



Tall glabrous shrub. Leaves rather shining, mostly 2 to 4 inches long, i to 1 inch broad, intensely 

 green, finely veined. Peduncles | to 1 inch long, not rarely deflexed in age. Calyx-tube about three lines 

 long, brown as well as the operculum. Filaments yellowish in the dried state, the longest hardly three 

 lines long. Fruit about five lines long. Fertile seeds much larger than the sterile ones, blackish, nearly 

 oblique-tetrsed ric . 



Then Bentham describes it in B.Fl. iii, 249, but, as I shall show presently, he 

 confused it in part with F. falcata, Turcz., while " A specimen in fruit only from 

 Murchison River, Oldfield, (which) looks like the same species " {B.Fl. iii, 249) 

 is E. oleosa, E.v.M. 



Then Mueller makes the following statement : — 



E. deeurva (Fragm. phytogr. Austral., iii, 130) i.s recognised already by its elongated anthers, which 

 are very evidently longer than broad, opening with jiarallel narrow slits, quite agreeing with those of 

 genuine species of the series Parallelanthera', but Beutham's description of E. deeurva in the Flora 

 Ausiraliensis, iii, 249, refers extensively to such xarietii-s of E. oleosa as verge to E. falcata and E .[goniantha, 

 all of which, with E. concolor, should in the anthereal system be placed close to E. decipiens among the 

 Micrantherse. (Eucalyptograjihia , E. gracilis.) 



It is a tall, spindly Mallee-like shrub of 10-15 feet. The upper parts of the 

 branches are glaucous, which make it somewhat conspicuous. The branchlets are 

 red. 



The juvenile foliage is now recorded for the first time. It is nearly elliptical- 

 ovate, stem-clasping, lobcd at the base, slightly glaucous, equally green on both 

 sides. Some leaves are about 2^ inches long by 2^ broad. 



