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DESCRIPTION. 



LXXIX. E. doratoxylon, F.v.M. 



It was originally described in Fragmenta, ii, 55 (1860). The specific name begins 

 with a capital D in the original. 



It was then described in English by Bentham (B.Fl. iii, 249). 



It is figured and described by Mueller in the Eucalyptographia. 



Notes supplementary to the Description. 



It is usually a shrub, but Mueller quotes Mr. Thomas Muir as stating that 

 its trunk attains 3 feet in diameter. The bark is stated to be greenish white. 



The striae in the fruits depicted in the Eucalyptographia may be misleading. 

 The ripe fruits are quite smooth, and of course there is shrivelling in unripe fruits, 

 but nothing approaching striation. 



The flowers are depicted as erect ; all that I have seen are pendulous, like 

 the buds. 



RANGE. 



The species has not been found out of Western Australia. 



Maxwell originally obtained it at a place called Kojoneerup, which I cannot 

 trace, and would suggest that it is in the vicinity either of the Stirling Range, or of 

 the Russell Range, where Mueller stated Maxwell collected it. 



E. bnprestium was found in the same locality {Eucalyptographia); the 

 spelling is Kojonerup in B.Fl. iii, 206. 



The names of the old collectors are sometimes omitted from modern maps, or 

 so altered in spelling that one fails to recognise them. At the same time, they are 

 obviously of importance to the botanist. 



In Hooker's Journ. Bot., i, 247 (1849) and subsequent pages, is a letter from 

 James Drummond, dated Cape Riche, 29th October, 184S. He is giving an account 

 of his collecting trip, " principally on the Perongarup and Toolbranup Hills 



