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DESCRIPTION. 



XXII. E. buprcstium F.v.M. 



This is briefly referred to at Part VIII, p. 243, without description. It will be con- 

 venient to have the Fi!ora .I'^/r/'Ucnsis description: — 



E. bnprentium F. Muell. Fragm. iii. 57. 



A shrub of 8 to 1" feet (Maxwell) 



Leaves lanceolate or rarely oblong, usually narrow, acute or mucronate. mostly under .°> Inches, 

 rigid, bul not very thick, with the oblique reticulate veins usually prominent, the intrumarginal one at a 

 distance from the edge. 



Peduncles terete or slightlj flattened, mostly lateral below the leaves each usually with about 

 ii ti In Bowers, on short bui no1 thick pedicels. 



Ituds obovoid. Calyx-tube about '2 lines long, dilated above the ovary. Operculum hemispherical, 

 obi a--.', shorter than the calvx-tube. Stnmevs inflected in the bud, 2 or 3 lines long; anthers broad and 

 flat, opening in short divergent slits confluent at the apex. 



Fruil nearly globular, about 1 inch in diameter when full grown, but sometimes apparently ripe 

 when much smaller, thick and hard, the orifice much contracted, the rim narrow, the capsule sunk. 

 Perfect seeds very few, large, very irregularly shaped, the acute edge sometimes expanded inton narrow 

 wing. (B.F1. iii. 205). 



The figure on Plate 230 will doubtless be found useful, as also the following 



notes : — 



It is ,i tall shnil". sometimes up to 15 oi 20 feet, with a Mallee habit; smooth stems. 



Juvenile leaves (not previously described.) Ovoid to oblong mucronate, petiolate, say 2 3 inches 

 long by 1 1[ broad, glaucous, equally green on both sides, margin slightly thickened. Venation distinct, 

 intrumarginal vein at a considerable distance from the edge, sub-pinnately veined, with the lateral veins 

 approximately forming an angle of 15 >\<'j. with the midrib. 



The anthers are not typically renantherous ; they arc a little top-heavy, if 1 may use such u homely 

 expression; they seem to form n connecting link between the typical Renantherae and anthers such as 

 tlioM- of K. ilefijiicns Endl., of the Porantherae. 



Very young fruits simulate those of E. Iracliyphloia in shape and size. They are slightly urneolatc 

 and have u distinct rim. As growth proceeds, they arc borne in the greatest profusion, being as close as 

 they can pack on the previous season's wood.* Individual fruits are even larger than depicted in the 

 Rucalyptographia. Mueller depicts them I], inch in diameter; I measured them when green \\ inches in 

 diameter /f Often old liriv- fruits and small fruits are found in the same cluster. (Maiden in Jiii/ni. 

 VV..I. \'al. flisi Sor., vol. iii. Jan.. 1911.) 



• The figure in " Eu lyptographia " i true as far a it i, but it is of a brand] In which the fruits have largely 



f ill.-ri off ii. lie hoi barium. 



-. it h i h full-grown fruit i arc u uallj n f'-.\ liypcrlrophicd fruits; these display considerable resemblance to 

 if /. Todtinna, oreven /•.'. marginata. 



