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DESCRIPTION. 



CLVI. E. pellita Rv.M. 



In Fragmenta iv, 159 (1864). 



Following is a translation of the original : — • 



A tree with strong angular branchlets, leaves alternate, ovate-lanceolate, gradually and for a great 

 part of the leaf acuminate, of different colours on both sides, rather thick, coriaceous, imperforate, 

 moderately petiolate, abundantly penniveined, the veins being fine, the peripheral vein close to the margin, 

 umbels 3-5 flowered, paniculate, the fruit-bearing pedicels thick and angular and several times shorter 

 than the fruit and two-edged peduncle, the fruit semi-ovate, partly angled, marked with a rather broad 

 groove on the outer side near the vertex, 3-5 celled, valves acute and distinctly exsert, seeds winged. 



Rockingham Bay, Queensland (Dallachy). 



A tree 40-50 feet high, branches smooth, strong. Leaves 4-6 inches long, 11-2 inches broad, paler 

 on the under side, slightly inequilateral at the base ; the point often curved. Flowers unknown. Fruit- 

 bearing peduncles 8-10 lines long, about 2 lines broad. The fruit, not including the tips of the valves, is 

 4-5 lines long, slightly sunk about the vertex; the exsert parts of the valves H-2 lines long. The seeds 

 rather small, the fertile ones broader than the sterile ones. 



It will be observed that the buds, flowers and fruits were unknown. 



Bentham, (B.F1. iii, 248) describes the species in English, and gives the 

 locality Rockhampton by mistake. It should be Rockingham Bay, which is' north 

 of Hinchinbrook Island, in about 18° South latitude. Rockhampton is approximately 





E. 'pellita has hemispherical or conical overhanging opercula. 



SYNONYM. 



1. E. spectabilis F.v.M. 



Following is a translation of the original : — 



A glabrous tree, with robust branches compressed tetragonously upwards, the leaves large and 

 almost ovate, here and there lanceolate, often acuminate, the same colour on both sides, the petioles 

 somewhat long and broad, alternate and rather thick, coriaceous, imperforate, thickly and distinctly 

 penniveined, the peripheral vein rather far from the margin, the axillary and lateral peduncles solitary, 

 4-7 flowered; two-edged, shorter than, or almost the same length as the petiole, the calyx-tube almost 

 turbinate, narrowed into a slightly longer thick angular pedicel, almost the same length as the operculum, 

 the operculum semi-globose below and umbonate above, entirely without ribs, stamens longer than the 

 style, anthers ellipsoid, fruit 4-celled. 



From Rockingham Bay. Queensland [DaUach>j). 



