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DESCRIPTION. 



LXXXIII. E. Campaspe, S.le M.Moore. 



In Jonrn. Linn. Soc, xxxiv, 193 (1899). 

 Following is a translation of the original description : — 



A large much-branched shrub with shortly petiolate lanceolate leaves, obtusely acuminate, straight 

 or slightly falcate, peduncles axillary or extra-axillary and abbreviated, broadly winged, two to six-flowered, 

 with pedicels shorter than the calyx-tube, the calyx-tube broad-turbinate, with a nearly hemispherical 

 umbonate operculum little longer than the calyx-tube. Anthers oblong-ovate, distinctly dehiscent, with 

 an ovarium little shorter than the calyx tube, covered at the top. 



Hab. Gibraltar (Western Australia), flowers in the month of October. 



About 4 metres high. Leaves 6 to 11 cm. long, at the middle 1 to 2 cm. broad, gradually 

 contracted towards the base on both sides, with a whitish bloom, the midrib very conspicuous, especially 

 underneath, the side-nerves inconspicuous, forming an obscure and incomplete network, the marginal nerve 

 close to the margin, occasionally obscure, the petioles 1 cm. long. Peduncles -6 to -8 cm. long, -3 to 

 •-t cm. broad, covered with a white bloom, as well as the branchlets, pedicels, and calyces. Pedicels not 

 beyond '2 cm. long. Calyx-tube i cm. long, -6 cm. diameter, conspicuously marginate. Operculum '6 cm. 

 long, shortly and obtusely mucronate. Stamens 1 cm. long, inflexed in the bud; anthers '12 cm. long. 

 Capsules unknown. 



Notes supplementary to the Description. 



Mr. Moore could only spare me the material depicted at 2a, 2b, 2c, but I 

 have since obtained further specimens, including the fruits. 



At p. 120, Part IV of this work, is a photograph of a forest scene near 

 Coolgardie. The tree to the left is JEJ. torquata, Luehmann, while the small or 

 medium-sized tree to the right is E. Campaspe, Moore, and is described b\^ Dr. L. C. 

 Webster, who took the photograph, as " a White Gum with ribbony bark." 



The juvenile foliage is at present unknown. 



The anthers open very widely in parallel slits, the dehiscence often tearing 

 the anther-cell wall at both top and bottom. The gland often fills up the back of 

 the anther, and the two edges of the cells may not enclose it, as in E. diptera. 



The filament is at the base of the anther. 



RANGE. 



It was found at Gibraltar, Western Australia, by the describer (Gibraltar is 

 in lat. 31° 3' S., and long. 120° 59' E., and is, say, 15 miles south-west of Coolgardie), 

 and later on by Mr. (now Dr.) L. C. Webster, a few miles out of Coolgardie, more 

 definite locality not stated. Also by Ernest Lidgey, Block 59, Hampton Plains 

 Estate, east of Coolgardie. 



