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DESCRIPTION. 



C. E. urnigera, Hook. f. 



In Loud. Journ. Bbt. vi, 477 (18 i7). 



Foliis ovatis v lineari ovatis rectis v. curvatis utrinque angustatis plerisque in petiolum sublongum 

 attenuatis, pedunculis subelongatis trifioris, alabastris cylindraceo-urceolatis pedicellatis cupula depresso 

 hemispherica latiuscula umbonata v. mamillata fructu lignoso urceolato laevi infra orem crassum valde 

 constricto. 



Hab. Mount Wellington and Lake Echo; Gunn : — v. v.n. Arbor stafcura variabilis, ad cacumina 

 montium arbuscula, in convallibus montosis arbor 20-pedalis v. procerior evadit. Ramuli exempl. 

 alpestribus rugosi, nudi, rufcscentes, procerioribus laeves, glauci. Folia 1^-4 unc. longa, bis ad quater 

 longiora quara lata, coriacea, plerumque nilida. Alabastra J- ad | unc. longa, plerumque plus minusve 

 urceolata. Fructus J-l unc. longus, elongatus v. rarius globosus, semper infra orem dilatatum contractus. 



Then it was figured and described by Hooker in Bot. Antorc. Voyage, Fl. 

 Tas. i, 134 (Plate xxvi). 



besides the Latin description (practically a copy of the original), the author 

 described it in English, as follows : — 



A small tree, 15-20 feet high, wilh spreading branches and drooping, red-brown brar.chlets. 

 Leaves extremely variable in size and shape, 1-4 inches long, generally shining, from ovate or elliptic and 

 straight to narrow, linear-lanceolate and falcate ; apex with a short, hooked, deciduous mucro ; petioles 

 almost an inch long. Flowers J--| inih long, in threes, with long pedicels at the apex of a long peduncle. 

 Calyx extremely variable in breadth (rarely globose), swollen below, then contracted and expanding again 

 at the mouth, which is thick, and not plane. Operculum fchort, broad, ofien with a mamilla, but some- 

 times sunk in the middle. Fruit somelimes an inch long; valves sunk far below the mouth, placed at the 

 contraction. Upon this s-pacies a species of Coccus abounds, which yields a bright-red colouring matter, 

 which may be of use in the arts: the fact was first noticed Ly Mr. Lawrence, who had commenced experi- 

 ments upon the subject, tli t were frustrated by his lamented dea'h. 



Then it was described by Bentham in B.P1. iii, 227. It is not figured by 

 Mueller in the " Eucalyptographia." 



Notes supplementary to the Description. 



The juvenile foliage is large, orbicular, sometimes very glaucous, though not 

 alwavs so, and has crenulated edsfes, the crenulation hems' sometimes not verv 

 obvious. 



It will be observed, on reference to fig. Id; Plate 80, that the shape of the 

 fruit is sometimes scarcely urceolate. 



The timber is pale-coloured. 



Variety elongata, Rodway. 



A tall, spreading tree. Bark smooth, white. Leaves linear-lanceolate, 4--S inches long. Peduncle 

 not very long. Operculum conical, umbonate, half as long as the capsule. Fruit pyriform-globose, 

 •lightly constricted, J inch long. Capsule much sunk. (The Tasmanian Flora, p. 58.) 



