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DESCRIPTION. 



CXXIL E. Forrestiana Diels. 



In "Fragnienta Phytographiae Australia occidentalis " in Engler's Botan. 

 Jahrbuclier, xxxv, 439 with Fig. 50 (1905). 



Tiie original, in Latin, may be translated as follows : — 



A tall shrub, leaves alternate, subfalcate, lanceolate, somewhat thick, in the living state glaucous 

 green, scarcely shining, midrib conspicuous, veins sunk ; flowers large, solitary in the axil, with long 

 peduncles ; peduncle elongated, drooping, thickened towards the club-shaped apex, scarlet in colour ; 

 receptacle (i.e., calyx) nearly as long as the peduncle, obconical, quadrangular, scarlet, many times longer 

 than the pjramid-shaped operculum ; stamens yellow, indexed in the bud, glandular : fruit quadrangular, 

 ovoid truncate, with a raised rim ; valves enclosed in the subquadrate calyx-tube. 



A shrub 2-3 metres high ; petiole 1*5-2 cm. ; lamina 7-10 x 1*5— 2*5 cm, ; peduncle 4-5 cm. long ; 

 receptacle 4 x 1*5 cm. • fruit 4x2 cm. 



Named in honour of Sir John Forrest, the celebrated explorer of Western Australia, and Premier 

 of the State for ten vears. 



RANGE. 



Found in the district of Coolgardie, especially in the south, from Esperance 

 Fay, about 30 miles towards the north, in open scrub lands in muddy sandy 

 country. It flowered November, 1901 (D. 5,332). I have a specimen (5-10 feet 

 high), collected by Mr. Cecil Andrews, between Esperance and Norseman — the 

 same general locality as the type. 



AFFINITIES. 



1. With E. tetraptera Turcz. 



Dr. Diels says, " This very distinct species is closely related to none except 

 to E. tetraptera, differing in its never divaricate habit, smaller subopaque leaves, 

 elongated petiole, much narrower calyx-tube, in the much narrower wings of the 

 calyx-tube and fruit." 



2. With E. incrassata Labill. 



I have a specimen of this species (" S. W. Australia," ^Maxwell, from Herb. 

 Melb.) 3 which shows undoubted resemblance to E. Forrestiana. Its fruit is almost 

 as large, but it has the multi-ribbing of the var. angulosa of E. incrassata and not 

 the quadrangulate ribbing which amounts to wings in E. Forrestiana. Such marked 



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