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DESCRIPTION. 



LXIX. E. decipiens, Endl. 



Following is the original description : — ■ 



Foliis alternis elliptieis ovatis obovatisve mucronatis obsolete crenatis, pedunculis axillaribus 

 terrninalibusque teretiusculis petiolo brovioribus, floribus 5-15 capitatis, operculo conico cupulam triente 

 superante. King George's Sound (Hiigel). 



Facies omnino E. obovaiae, Labill., Nov. Holl., t. 153, sed operculi forma et longitudine distinctissima. 

 (Enumeratio plantarum quas in Nova3 Hollandias ora Austro-Occidentali ad Fluviuni Cygnorura et in Sinu 

 Eegis Georgii collegit Carolus Liber Baro de Hugel, 49 [1837]). The Myrtacere by Endlicher. 



Then we have the species more amply described : — 



7. Eucalyptus decipiens, Endl., fruticosa; laevis ; foliis coriaceis, alternis, subrotundis elliptieis 

 oblongis lanceolatisve, in petiolum attenuatis, breviter acunrinatis, pallide virentibus, opacis ; capitulis 

 axillaribus, 8-12 floris, confertis ; pedunculo subtereti ; pedicellis hypanthio continuis subnullis vel 

 brevissimis ; hypanthio turbinate, fauce brevi ; operculo conico, in apicem subcornutnm contracto, nitidulo, 

 hypanthio triente circiter longiori. Endl. Enum. pi. Hiigel, pag. 49, n. 155. 



Variat : (a) latifolia. foliis subrotundis elliptieis oblongisve. E. decipiens Endl. I.e. (v, in H. C. 

 \ T indob.) 



(b) angustifolia. foliis lanceolatis. Herb. Preiss, sine No. 



In glareosis sterilibus collium Wuljenup prornontorii Cape Riche, Novernbri, a. 1840, florens lecta 

 Herb. Preiss, No. 241. 



" Frutex 8-10 pedalis." Folia quoad figuram maximopere variabilia. 



Hypanlhium cum pedicello 2-2| lin. longuni, cum operculo fuscum, nitidumque. — Forma latifolia, 

 a nob. L. B. de Hiigel lecta, E. ovatce, Lab., tantopere similis est, ut pro eadem habuerim, nisi operculi 

 forma repugnaret. Lehmann, Plantce Preissiance, pp. 129-130, i, 1845. 



It will be observed that the type was collected at King George's Sound, and 

 that it is the broad-leaved form of the species ("facies omnino, E. obovatce, Labill., 

 Nov. Soil., t. 153.") I received the loan of the type from the Vienna Herbarium, 

 and have figured portions of it at Tigs, la lb of Plate 63. 



Lehmann calls this normal or broad-leaved form, variety latifolia, and the 

 narrow-leaved form (Herb. Preiss, No. 241), of wbich 1 have a specimen, variety 

 angustifolia. 



Lehmann describes it as shrubby, but Bentham corrected this, and I have 

 seen it a tree 3 feet in diameter of trunk, and doubtless it is larger. 



Bentham (B.E1. iii, 218) describes B. decipiens correctly, as with " leaves 



ovate, ovate-lanceolate or lanceolate." Mueller (" Eucalyptographia '") figures 

 E. decipiens, but with leaves narrower than those of the type. 



