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DESCRIPTION. 



LX XVIII. E. deeurua, F.v.M. 



The original description will be found in Fragm. iii, 130 (1863), and, as confusion 

 has arisen in regard to it, I give a translation. 



Shrubby, branches soon terete, pruinose, leaves alternate or irregularly opposite, moderately petiolate, 

 ovate-or falcate-lanceolate, acuminate with a hooked point, equally coloured on both sides, indistinctly 

 and distantly penniveined, imperforate, the marginal vein obscure and distant from the margin, solitary 

 few-flowered axillary or lateral umbels, with rather slender slightly compressed peduncles, pedicels recurved 

 about as long as the calyx, shorter than the peduncle, narroiv-campanulate calyx-tubes nearly twice as long 

 as the hemispherical finely apiculate operculum, but hardly so broad, anthers cordate-ovate, fruits truncate- 

 ovate, without ribs, gradually contracted towards the orifice, with included valves and wingless seeds. 



In shrubby places near Perongerup (Porongorups), Western Australia. Maxw. (Maxwell). 



Tall glabrous shrub. Leaves rather shining, mostly 2 to 4 inches long, i to 1 inch broad, intensely 

 green, finely veined. Peduncles i to 1 inch long, not rarely deflexed in age. Calyx-tube about three lines 

 long, brown as well as the operculum. Filaments yellowish in the dried state, the longest hardly three 

 lines long. Fruit about five lines long. Fertile seeds much larger than the sterile ones, blackish, nearly 

 oblique-tetrsedric. 



Then Bentham describes it in B.Fl. iii, 249, but, as I shall show presently, he 

 confused it in part with E. falcata, Turcz., while " A specimen in fruit only from 

 Murchison River, Oldfield, (which) looks like the same species " (B.Fl. iii, 249) 

 is E. oleosa, F.v.M. 



Then Mueller makes the following statement : — 



E. decurva (Fragm. phytogr. Austral., iii, 130) is recognised already by its elongated anthers, which 

 are very evidently longer than broad, opening with parallel narrow slits, quite agreeing with those of 

 genuine species of the series Parallelantherse, but Bentham's description of E. decurva in "the Flora 

 Australiensis, iii, 249, refers extensively to such varieties of E. oleosa as verge to E. falcata and E.'goniantha, 

 all of which, with E. concolor, should in the anthereal system be placed close to E. decipiens among the 

 Micrantherae. (Eucalyptographia, E. gracilis.) 



It is a tall, spindly Mallee-like shrub of 10-15 feet. The upper parts of the 

 branches are glaucous, which make it somewhat conspicuous. The branchlets are 

 red. 



The juvenile foliage is now recorded for the first time. It is nearly elliptical- 

 ovate, stem-clasping, lobed at the base, slightly glaucous, equally green on both 

 sides. Some leaves are about 1\ inches long by 2J- broad. 



