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DESCRIPTION. 



CIIL E. elceophora, F.v.M. 



The attention of my readers is invited to what I have already said in regard to this 

 species under E. goniocalyx, F.v.M., ante p. 267. 



• Following is a translation of Mueller's formal description of E. elceophora 

 in Fragm. iv, 52, with italics as in the original : — 



Arborescent, with angular branchlets, at length nearly terete, with falcate-lanceolate leaves, 

 closely covered with pellucid dots, alternate, thinly coriaceous, equally coloured on both sides, rather 

 shining, on petioles long or moderately long, with thin primary veins diverging in an acute angle, the 

 peripheral one remote from the margin, with solitary two-edged axillary peduncles and capitate, jour to 

 seven /lowered umbels, with the calyx-tube nearly doubly exceeding the length of the semi-ovate double 

 operculum, with truncate-ovate fruits, slightly or hardly angular, three, rarely four-celled, the vertex of the 

 capsule convex, enclosed, the acute valves reaching to the orifice, with wingless seeds, the fertile ones 

 conspicuously larger than the sterile ones. 



In grassy mountains at the McAlister River, especially in the vicinity of Mt. Ligar. 



A middle-sized tree with a persistent rugose bark, dirty ash-srey. Leaves 3-7 inches long, f to 1 J 

 inches broad, with a long acute apex, the base often oblique. Peduncles hardly ^ to 1 inch long, li- to 

 2 lines broad. Bracts of the umbel in the early state enveloping the calyptra, membranous, deciduous. 

 Outer operculum membranous, very deciduous. Fully developed flowers not seen. Fruits nearly 4 lines 

 long, slightly contracted at the mouth. Fertile seeds black, obliquely or almost round-ovate, nearly 1 line 

 in diameter, sterile ones brown, clavate, or sub-rhomboid. 



The species was described by Deane and Maiden, under the name of E. 

 Cambagei, with two plates, in Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W. xxv, 106 (1900). 

 The description may he supplemented as follows : — 



A " Box," the rough bark occasionally strongly resembling that of an Ironbark in old trees. It 

 grows on the well-drained sides or tops of hills. 



Juvenile foliage. — Thiekish, as a rule, but sometimes thin (e.g., Bendigo, Victoria), of equal 

 colour on both sides or rarely pale on the underside (e.g., Bendigo). Orbicular, orbicular-acuminate 

 to ovate or obiong. 



Buds. — Operculum pointed or blunt, shorter than the calyx-tube, which is flattened or almost 

 winged sometimes. 



Filaments dry red. 



Fruits. — "Valves scarcely exsert to very exsert, and with wide orifice; fruit sometimes very angular, 

 and verv large. Stalked or sessile. 



SYNONYMS. 



1. E. goniocalyx, F.v.M., var. pallens, Benth. 



2. E. Cambagei, Deane and Maiden. 



1. E. goniocalyx, F.v.M., var. pallens, Benth. " Specimens glaucous white, as 

 in E. dealbata. Mountains on Snowy River, F .v. Mueller." (B.F1. iii, 230.) 



