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DESCRIPTION. 



CXI. E. Todtiana F.v.M. 



In Wing's Southern Science Record, Melbourne, for August, 1882, Vol. ii, p. 171. 

 As this work is now scarce, I give the text of the original description : — 



Arborescent, but not tall ; leaves rather small, rigid, iiarrow-lanceolar, slightly curved, almost 

 equilateral, shining on both sides, scarcely paler beneath ; veiws pinna tely spreading, much immersed, tlie 

 circumferential vein only slightly removed from the edge ; oil-pores concealed ; flower stalks axillary, rather 

 long not much compressed, bearing from four to seven flowers ; stalklets none or exceedingly short ; calyces 

 longitudinally streaked ; their tube semiovate, attenuated at the base, somewhat longer than the hemi- 

 spheric lid ; stameiif: all fertile, with exception of some of the outermost inflexed before expansion ; anth''.rs 

 nearly heart shaped, anterioriorly dehiscent with longitudinal upward confluent sjjits ; stigma not dilated ; 

 fruits rather large, nearly globular or truncate-ovate, their margin thin; v.ilves three, enclosed, very short; 

 sterile see-h mostly broad ; fertile seeds expanding laterally into a transparent membrane. Near the 

 Greenough and Arrowsmith Rivers on sandy ridges, F.v.M., near the Moore River, J. Forrest. Allied as 

 well to E. buprestium as to E. patens. Named in honour of Mr. Erail Todt, through whose artistic talent 

 numerous species became illustrated for the " Atlas of Eucalypts." [Generally known as " Eucalypto- 

 graphia."— J.H.M.] 



Mueller subsequently figured it and gave additional notes, in his " Euealypto- 

 graphia." 



Mueller spoke of it as a small tree, but in the districts north of Perth it 

 evidently does not attain its full development. It is, however, a species with a 

 trunk 3 feet in diameter at South Perth. It has narrow juvejiile leaves. Tlie 

 branches are very brittle. It is not a commercially valuable timber tree, having a 

 short trunk, with rather brittle, non-durable timber. 



RANGE. 



It is confined to Western Australia. Mueller gives the localities " Near the 

 Greenough and Arrowsmith Ilivers, on sandy ridges (Mueller) ; in the vicinity 

 of the Moore River (J. Forrest)." The Greenough flows into the ocean near 

 Geraldton, while the Arrowsmith is a few miles further south. The Moore River 

 is about 50 miles north of Perth. It was not known to Mueller that it grows in 

 the vicinity of Perth, where it attains a much larger size than he was aware of. 



Following are some specimens in the National Herbarium, Sydney : — 

 South Perth (J.H.M.) ; North Perth (Dr. J. B. Cleland) ; Eayswater, Lower Swan 

 River (A. Morrison) ; Guildford (R. Helms) ; Swan River, Diels' No. 2,720 ; 

 10 metres (33 feet) high, with rough bark and pendulous foliage. Swan River, near 

 CuUala (Dr. L. Diels' No. 2,423). Cullala is between the Swan and Moore Rivers. 

 Diels and Pritzel also saw it between the Moore River and Dandaragan ; 

 Arborescent, 40-50 feet, bark and appearance of B. patens, Moore River, near 

 Mogumber ("W. V. Fitzgerald). 



