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DESCRIPTION. 



C. E. urnigera, Hook. f. 



In Loud. Jouni. Bot. vi, 477 (18 i7). 



FoLlls ovatis V lineari ovatis rectis v. curvatis utrinque angustatis plerisquo in petioluai sublonguni 

 attenuates, pedunculis subelongatis trifloris, alabastris cyliiidraceo-urceolatis peilicellatis cupula depresso 

 hemispherica latiuscula umbonata v. mamillata fructu lignoso iirc-eolato laevi infra orem crassum valde 

 constricto. 



Hab. Mount Wellington and Lake Echo; Gunn : — v. v.n. Arbor statura variabilis, ad cacumina 

 montium arbuscula, in convallibus montosia ai'bor 20-pedalis v. procerior evadit. Hamuli exerapl. 

 alpestribus rugosi, nudi, rufescentes, procerioribus laeves, glauci. Folia 1^-4 unc. longa, bis ad quater 

 longiora quam lata, coriacea, plerumque nitida. Alabastra ?. ad | unc. longa, plerumque plus minusve 

 urceolata. Fructus J-1 unc. longus, elongatus v. rarius globosus, semper infra orem dilatatum contractus. 



Then it was figured and described by Hooker in Bot. Aniai'C. Voyage, Fl. 

 Tas. i, 134 (Plate xxvi). 



liesldes the Latin description (practically a copy of the original), the author 

 described it in English, as foUoAvs : — 



A small tree, 15-20 feet high, ■wifh spreading branches and drooping, red-brown branclilets. 

 Leaves extremely variable in size and shape, 1-4 inches long, generally shining, from ovate or elliptic and 

 straight to narrow, linear-lanceolate and falcate ; apex with a short, hooked, deciduous mucro ; petioles 

 almost an inch long. Flowers ?,-| inch long, in threes, with long pedicels at the apex of a long peduncle. 

 Calyx extremely variable in breadth (rarely globose), swollen below, then contracted and expanding again 

 at the mouth, which is thick, and not plane. Operculum short, broad, often with a mamilla, but some- 

 times sunk in the middle. Fruit sometimes an inch long; valves sunk far below the mouth, placed at the 

 contraction. Upon this .'p?cies a species of Coccus abounds, which yields a bright-red colouring matter, 

 which may be of use in the arts : the fact was first noticed by Mr. Lawrence, who h:i,d commenced experi- 

 ments upon the subjcot, th .t were frustrated by his lamented deaih. 



Then it was described by Bentham in B.Pl. iii, 227. It is not figured by 

 Mueller in the " Eucalyptographia." 



Notes supplementary to the Description. 



The juvenile foliage is large, orbicular, sometimes very glaucous, though not 

 always so, and has crcnulated edges, the crenulation being sometimes not very 

 obvious. 



It will be observed, on reference to fig. lo, Plate 80, that the shape of the 

 fruit is sometimes scarcely urceolate. 



The timber is pale-coloured. 



Variety clongata, Rodwaiy. 



A tall, spnading tree. Lark sniootli, white. Leaves linear-lanceolate, 4-8 inches long. Peduncle 

 not very long. Operculum conical, umbonate, half as long as tho capsule. Fruit pyriform-globose, 

 riightly constricted, }. inch long. Capsule much sunk. {The Tasmanian Flora, p. 58.) 



