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DESCRIPTION. 



LXXX. E. corrugata, Luehmann. 



Victorian Naturalist, Melbourne, xiii, 168 (1897). 



A tree attaining about 30 feet in height, with a smooth, ashy-grey bark. 



Leaves on rather long petioles, mostly narrow-lanceolar, slightly falcate, narrowed at the base, 

 acuminate, 3 inches to 4 inches long, I inch to rarely j inch broad, rather thick, dark green and very 

 shining on both sides, black-dotted, the lateral veins rather numerous and spreading but hardly visible 

 without a lens, the marginal vein close to the edge. 



Peduncles axillary or lateral, nearly terete, about half an inch long, bearing an umbel of 3 to 5 

 shortly pedicellate flowers. 



Calyx-tube hemispherical, with 6 to 8 very prominent ridges, about \ inch across, brownish, 

 shining. 



Operculum hemispherical, with ridges similar to those of the calyx. 



Stamens mostly inflected in bud ; anthers oblong, opening by parallel longitudinal slits. 



Fruit hemispherical, not much larger than the flowering calyx, mostly 4-celled, nearly flat-topped, 

 the valves shortly protruding. 



Golden Valley, in the interior of Western Australia. W. A. Sayer. 



This species is evidently allied to E. incrassata, but none of the forms of that species have such 

 high ridges, nor the same hemispheric shape of the calyx and operculum. E. pachyphylla, which has also 

 prominent ribs, can be easily distinguished by the broader dull-coloured leaves, as well as other characters. 



Notes supplementary to the Description. 



The late Mr. Luehmann says nothing about the prominent ridges of the fruit 

 (see 6a, 7c, Plate 70), perhaps leaving them to be presumed from the description of 

 the calyx-tube. 



The juvenile foliage is still unknown. 



RANGE. 



So far as I know, this species has never been collected far from the place 

 where it was originally found. This is Golden Valley, which is near Southern Cross, 

 Western Australia. 



I collected it about 5 miles from Southern Cross, going northerly. A tree of 

 medium size, glaucous at the time of my visit (September). 



