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DESCRIPTION. 



LXXXVIIL.E. Woodwardi, Maiden. 



In Journ. TF.A. Nat. Hist, and Science Soc, iii, 42 (1910). 

 Following is the original description : — 



Arborea 13-15 m. (40-50 pedes) alta, cortice glabre base rimosiore, glaucissima. 



Folia matura crassa rigidaque, late lanceolata, petiolata, circiter 10-15 cm. longa, 4-5 lata 

 ineonspicue venosa, venis lateralibus angulo circiter 45° approxime parallelis. 



Alabastrum niagnum, pedunculatum, subcostatum calyce urceolato, operculo hcemisphrerico rostro 

 obtuso. Antherse cellis parallelis adnatis, glandula magno dorso. 



Fructus urceolatus vel prope campanulatus, subcostatus circiter 15 mm. longus, similis in maxima 

 latitudine, margo prominens, 5-valvulis, valvularum apicibus sequis cum orificio. 



Videtur E. incrassatce varietati angul/tsae et E. aesice forsan approximanda. 



A tree of 40-50 feet, bark smooth, somewhat scaly at the butt, all parts very glaucous, almost 

 mealv (except perhaps the oldest leaves). The foliage contains a good deal of a not very agreeably 

 smelling oil. 



Juvenile leaves not seeu in the early stages. In an intermediate stage petiolate, ovate to 

 ovate-acuminate, venation distinct though not very prominent, midrib channelled, lateral veins making 

 approximately an angle of 45° with the midrib and roughly parallel, intrarnarginal vein at a considerable 

 distance from the edge. 



Mature leaves very thick, rigid, and glaucous, both sides of the leaf identical, nearly symmetrical, 

 petiolate (petioles about 2 cm.), broadly lanceolate or ovate-acuminate, tapering to a not very fine point, 

 commonly 10-15 cm. long by 4—5 broad, midrib distinct, usually thickened margin, venation fine and not 

 readilv made out, but very similar in position to that of the intermediate leaf. 



Hilds and flowers — Buds large, pedunculate, calyx and operculum slightly ribbed, calyx urceolate, 

 the op' rculum hemispherical and tapering rather abruptly into a blunt beak. Flowers not seen expanded 

 but aiitbers removed from three-quarter ripe buds, with parallel cells joined together for their whole 

 length, and with a large gland at the back. 



Fruits — On rounded common peduncles about 15 mm., the pedicels about 5 mm. ; up to 7 in the 

 umbel, each fruit sharply separated from the pedicel, urceolate or nearly bell-shaped, about 15 mm. long 

 and the same in grea'est width ; rim well defined, 5-valved (in the specimens seen) with the tips of the 

 valves flush with the orifice. 



In honour of Bernard Henry Woodward, director of the Museum and Art 

 Gallery, Perth, who, by the supply of photographs and specimens, and in other 

 ways, has helped me in my monograph of this genus. 



RANGE. 



One small patch seen, 120 miles east of Kalgoorlie, Transcontinental Railway 

 Survey. Collected by Henry Deane, M.A., M. Inst. C.E., Consulting Engineer, 

 May, 1909. 



Found also by R. Helms at Camp 63, 60 miles south of Victoria Spring, 

 Western Australia, 27th September, 1591. 



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