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(/) Yar. grossa, var. no v. 



17. E. grossa, F.v.M. 



18. E. pachypoda, F.v.M. 



17. E. grossa, F.v.M. 



F. Muell. Herb. A stunted shrub (Maxwell) ; leaves from ovate and obtuse to lanceolate and 

 acute, very thick and shining, under 3 inches long, the veins oblique, rarely conspicuous, the intramarginal 

 one at a distance from the edge ; peduncles axillary or lateral, often recurved, thick, and much flattened, 

 with usually three large sessile flowers ; calyx-tube turbinate, prominently ribbed, 4 to 5 lines long ; 

 operculum oblong, very obtuse, thin and smooth as in the Cornutse, as long as or rather shorter, perhaps 

 sometimes longer than the calyx-tube ; stamens half an inch long, inflected in the bud ; anthers ovate-oblong, 

 with parallel distinct cells ; ovary short, convex in the centre ; fruit not seen. W. Australia, Phillip's 

 River and its tributaries. Maxwell. 



I feel uncertain as to the affinities of this species, the smooth cylindrical obtuse operculum is like that 

 of the Cornutoe, but the stamens are much inflected in the bud, and the flowers are otherwise quite those 

 of the larger forms of E. incrassata. (B.F1. iii, 232.) 



18. E. pachypoda, F.v.M. 



Fruticosa, divaricata, glabra, ramulis, validis mox teretiuseulis apice sensim acuminatis crasso- 

 coriaceis concoloribus nitidus copiose et pellucide angulari-porosis, venis primariis lateralibus leniter 

 patentibus cum venulis anastomosantibus, vena peripherica a margine tenuiter cartilagineo modicc distante, 

 peduneulis crassis solitariis vix latitudine propria longioribus 4-8 floris pedicellis nullis, calycis supra 

 medium circumscissi tubo semiovafco-cylindrico vix angulato operculo semiovato coriaceo-chartaceo 

 iilamentis flavidis praefloratione infractis omnibus fertilibus, antherarum oblongo-ovalium loculis parallelis 

 longitudinaliter dehiscentibus, fructibus truncato-ovatis, margine orilicii tenui, valvis 1 inclusis deltoideis, 

 seminibus fertilibus parvia apteris, (Mueller, in Fragm. vii, 41.) 



Mueller gives a reference to B.F1. iii, 233, where Bentham says : — 



Tn a specimen sent by F. Mueller from a tree grown in the Melbourne Botanic Garden from 

 W. Australian seeds, and named by him E. pachypoda ; the leaves are acute, as in Maxwell's specimen, but 

 the peduncle is very thick and scarcely flattened, bearing more than three flowers, with ovoid calyces. 

 The tree had not yet fruited, but it will probably not prove specifically distinct from E. l'reissiana. 



Mueller says : — 



E. grossa (from which E. pachypoda, F.v.M., Fragments Phytographife Australia vii, 41, anno 1869, 

 is only separable as a variety) can best be distinguished from E. incrassata by its not distinctly compressed 

 though stout umbel stalks, by the slightly angular but not furrowed tube of the calyx, by the semiellipsoid 

 even lid, by the filaments inflexed near or towards the summit only, and by its not angular fruit with no 

 narrow apex of the valves. (Eucalyptographia under E. incrassata.) 



I do not think that E. grossa is specifically different from E. incrassata. 

 Compared with the type it is a coarser form, and the buds and fruits have fewer 

 corrugations. The operculum is less conical, the whole hud being nearly oval in 

 shape. The fruits are more nearly cylindrical than those of the type, and the rim 

 is more marked. 



