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DESCRIPTION. 



LXXI. E. Cloeziana, F.v.M. 



In Fragmenta xi, 44 (November, 1878). 



This is in Latin, and an abbreviated translation will be found in Bailey's 

 " Queensland Flora," ii, p. 620. 



Following is a more literal and fuller translation of tlie original description, 

 With italics as given by Mueller in tbe original : — 



Arborescent, with slender slightly angular branches, with chartaceous ovate — or elongated — 

 lanceolate leaves, unequally green on both sides, penniveined with rather distant and thin veins, long- 

 acuminate, slightly curved and transparently dotted with oil glands, the intramarginal vein rather distant 

 from the edge, with a very rich many-flowered panicle, with mostly 4- to 6-flowered umbels, with terete or 

 slightly angular peduncles, the ultimate ones very short, with a semi-ovate not angular calyx-tube, about 

 as long as the pedicels, with a depressed hemispherical operculum, at least half as long as the calyx-tube, 

 and very obtuse, with stamens all fertile, inflexed in bud, with very small nearly globular anthers 

 longitudinally dehiscent, style much exserted, and a not dilated stigma, with hemispherical-turbinate 

 young fruits, not angular, 3- or 4-oelled, with the margin of the rim rather thin, valves not exsert ; seeds 

 not winged. In coastal mountains at Rockingham Bay, Queensland. — Dallachy. 



Tl'PP. — About 30 feet high. According to the discoverer's observations, occasionally nearly 

 leafless. 



Bark. — Cracked, scaly, blackish. Perhaps belonging to the Sphizophloiae. 



Wood.— Hard. 



Petioles, — Slender ; \ to |-inch long. 



Leaves. — Three to 5 inches long, f to 1-|- inch broad, deep green above, pale green below; the 

 primary veins distinct above, just visible below. 



Panicles. — Lateral and perhaps also terminal, dense, much-branched. Ultimate pedu7icles mostly 

 hardly, a few lines long, rather stout. 



Pedicels. — Rather thick, before flowering about H lines long. 



Flowers. — Fragrant. 



Unopened Calyces. — Globular-ovate, little, or hardly more than 2 lines long to the line of 

 separation from the operculum. 



Filaments. — Very slender ; capillary, whitish, conspicuously longer than the calyx-tube, attaining 

 1 lines. 



Anthers. — About one-fifth of a line long ; somewhat cordate at the base, verging into truncate- 

 ovate. 



Style. — About 2 lines long. 



Fruit. — Apparently small ; ripe fruit not seen. 



The connection of this species with its nearest allies can hardly be settled in absence of ripe fruits, 

 but it seems to me it belongs to the series of E. crebra. E. crebra and E. drepanophylla are separated 

 from it by the more narrow leaves, pale green on both sides, and with closer and finer veins, by the more 

 slender peduncles and few-flowered umbels, the acute operculum, the calyces conspicuously attenuate at 

 the base, and the shorter stamens and style. E. siderophloia is distinguished from it by the thicker and 

 one-coloured leaves, the veins of which nearly reach the margin, the flowers more numerous in the umbel 

 tin- higher and acuter operculum. From E. microtheca it is distinguished by the characters from which it 

 is distinguished from E. crebra, to which may be added the exsertion of the valves. 



