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DESCRIPTION. * 



CCCX. E. Melntyrensis n.sp. 



Assumed parents — E. rostrata Schlecht., and E. ovata Labill. 



A medium-sized, scrambling gum-tree, with more or less flaky bark on the butt. Timber red. 



Juvenile loaves glabrous, equally bright green on both sides, pointed-ovate, petiolate, rather 

 coriaceous, pudcer d, venation distinct, curved-spreading, the intramarginal vein distinctly removed 

 from the edge. A common measurement of the blade is 13 x 7 cm. 



.Mature leaves lanceolate, up to 16 cm. long and 3 cm. broad, somewhat spreading, the secondary 

 veins distinct, making an angle of about 45 degrees with the midrib, the intramarginal vein distinct from 

 to rather distant from the margin. 



Inflorescence. — An axillary umbel up to five in the head on a rounded peduncle of at least 1 cm., 

 and pedicels of about half that length, buds rostrate, anthers (not perfectly ripe) opening in parallel slits, 

 with a gland at the back; versatile, 



Fruits hemispherical, under 1 cm. in diameter, with a distinctly domed rim, and four exsert valves. 



Type from Mount Mclntyre, South Australia (Walter Gill, Conservator of Forests, 

 South Australia, April, 1921). 



RANGE. 



It is confined to south-eastern South Australia so far as we know at present. 

 Mount Mclntyre is about 10 miles west from Kalangandoo Station, and Mount Burr 

 (where an ollied form occurs) is about the same distance south-west from Kalangandoo. 

 Both mountains are about north-west from Mount Gambier, the first, say, 30 miles, and 

 the second 22 miles distant. 



