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Eremophila Tietkensti, F. v. M. and Tate. 



Branchlets robust ; leaves rather large, greyish from an extremely short 

 vestiture, elongate or narrow-lanceolar, entire but somewhat flexuous, gradually 

 narrowed to the apex, slightly decurrent into the rather conspicuous petiole ; 

 flowers axillary, solitary; pedicel about as long as the calyx, thickened upwards ; 

 segments of the calyx lanceolar, much narrowed towards the base, overlapping 

 at the margin, nearly glabrous, soon scarious, reticulate-venular, somewhat 

 dotted ; style glabrous ; ovulary imperfectly beset with glandular very minute 

 hairlets, ovate -globular, but the summit conically contracted ; ovules four in 

 each cell. Central Australia. 



Leaves from two to three inches long, half to two-thirds of an inch broad, 

 without any lustre ; thinly keeled ; the lateral venules few and faint or con- 

 cealed. Calyx -segments nearly two-thirds of an inch long. Corolla and fruit 

 unknown. Allied to E. Clarkei, E. Oldfieldii, and E. graciliflora, but not com- 

 binable with any of them. 



