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- DESCRIPTION. 



LXXXVIII. E. Woodwardi, Maiden. 



Til Journ. IF. A. Nat. His/, and Science Soc, iii, 42 (1910). 

 FoLiiOWiNG is the original description : — 



Arborea 13-15 m. (•10-50 pedes) alta, cortice glabre base rimusiore, glaucissima. 



Folia matura crassa rigidaque, late lanceolata, petiolata, circiter 10-15 cm. longa, 4-5 lata 

 inconspicuo venosa, venis lateralibus angulo circiter 45° approxime parallelis. 



Alabastrum magnum, pedunculatum, .subcostatum calyce urceolato, operculo hwmisphferico rostro 

 obtuso. Aiitherw cellis parallelis adnatis. glandula magno dorso. 



Fructus urceolatus vel prope campaTiulatu.s, .subcostatus circiter 15 mm. longus, siniilis in maxima 

 latitudine, raargo prominens, 5-valvidi.';, valvularum apicibus sequis cum oriOcio. 



Videtur E. iricrassaUe varietati angiiMsoi et E. r,<p.sim forsan approximanda. 



A tree of 40^50 feet, bark smooth, somewhat Rcaly at the butt, all parts very glaucous, almost 

 mealy (except jjerhaps the oldest leaves). The foliage contains a good deal of a not very agreeably 

 smelling oil. 



JnvCIlile leaves not seen in the early .stages. In an intermediate stage petiolate, ovate to 

 ovate-acuminate, venation distinct though not very prominent, midrib channelled, lateral veins making 

 approximately an angle of 45' with the miilrib and roughly parallel, intramarginal vein at a considerable 

 distance from the edge. 



Mature leaves very thick, rigid, and glaucous, both sides of the leaf identical, nearly symmetrical, 

 petiolate (petioles about 2 cm.), broadly lanceolate or ovate-acuminate, tapering to a not verj fine point, 

 commonly 10-15 cm. long by 4-5 broad, midrib distinct, usually thickened margin, venation fine and not 

 readily made out, but very similar in position to that of the intermediate leaf. 



Hllds au(l flowers — Buds large, pedunculate, calyx and operculum slightly ribbed, calyx urceolate, 

 the o|i' rculum hemispherical and tapering rather abruptly into a blunt beak. Flowers not seen expanded 

 .but aiilliers removed from three-quarter ripe buds, with parallel cells joined together for their whole 

 length, and with a large gland at the back. 



Fruits — On rounded common peduncles about 15 mm., the pedicels about 5 mm. ; up to 7 in the 

 umbel, each fruit sharply separated from tiie pedicel, urceolate or nearly bell-shaped, about 15 mm. long 

 and the same in greatest width : rim well defrned, 5-valved (in the specimens seen) with the tips of the 

 valves flush with thi; oriticc. 



In lionour of Beiiianl Henry Woodward, director of the Museum and Art 

 Gallery, PerUi, who, by tlie supply of photographs and specimens, and in other 

 ways, has helped mc in my monograph of this genus. 



RANGE. 



One small patcli seen, 120 miles east of Kalgoorlie, Transcontinental Railway 

 Survey. Collected by Henry Deane, M.A., M. Inst. C.E., Consulting Engineer, 

 May, 1909. 



Eoiind also by It. Helms at Camp (i3, (50 miles south of Victoria Spring, 

 AVcstern Australia, 27th September, 1891. 



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