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DESCRIPTION. 



CCCK XXIII. E. an gust a n.sp. 



Following is the description :— 



Frutex altus vel arbor parva; foliis rnaturis nitentibus, crassissimis, rigidis, flavo-viridibus, petiolatis, 

 auceolatis, vcnis inconspicuis, venis secondaries angulum 30-45^ costa media facientibus ; intlorescentia 

 axillari, pediinculo longp subplanato capifculum 9 (lorum sustinenti; calycis-tubo cylindro conoideo oper- 

 culum conoideum aequanti; antheris terminalibus ; fructibus piriformibus ad hemisphericis, circa 8 mm. 

 diametro, truncatis et leniter rotundata; pediccllis marginibusque crassis; valvarum capsularum apicibus 

 subulatis exsertis. 



A tall shrub, or spindly, small tree, foliage, buds and fruits shining all over. 



Juvenile leaves. — Strictly juvenile leaves not seen, but, the result of a trauma, the type specimen 

 has a branchlet which contains a pair of leaves in the, opposite, though not in quite the earliest stage, which 

 are petiolatc (6 mm.) symmetrical, bluntly lanceolate, 4 cm. long and 12 mm. wide; texture, lustre, &c, 

 same as mature leaves. 



Mature leaves very thick, rigid, yellowish-green, the same colour and lustre on both sides, 

 petiolatc, lanceolate to narrow-lanceolate, apex rigid or hooked, venation indistinct, the secondary veitis 

 making an angle of 30-45 degrees with the midrib. 



Inflorescence axillary, a fairly long, flatfish peduncle supporting a head of up to nine flowers on 

 short pedicels. The buds with cylindro-conoid calyx-tubes and conical opercula of equal length, and each 

 exhibiting a double operculum. Anthers only seen in an immature state, but evidently terminal. 



Fruits pyriform to hemispherical, about 8 mm. in diameter, truncate or slightly domed, with short, 

 thick pedicels. Rim thick and probably reddish-brown (of a different colour to the calyx-tube), with awl- 

 like protruding tips to the capsule-valves, as in E. oleosa (not shown in Plate 229). 



Illustration. — E. angusta has been already figured at fig. 13, Plate 05, Part XV, 

 which shows the exsert awl-like tips of the capsule-valves, which have been 

 inadvertently omitted in fig. 3b, Plate 229. 



RANGE. 



It is only known from Western Australia, viz., Comet Vale, 63 miles north of 

 Kalgoorlie. J. H. Maiden (buds and fruits), September, 1909, is the type, and J. T; 

 Jutson, No. 150 (buds only), from the same locality, December, 1916, is a co-type. 



