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DESCRIPTION.. 



CLXXV. E. Websteriana Maiden. 



In Proc, Roy. Soc. N.S.W., xlix, 313 (1915). 



Frutex 6-10 pedes altus. Folia inunatura glauca, breve petiolata, fere rotundata vel apicc obtusa, ad 

 3 em. diametro. Folia matuxa petiolata, glauca utrinque aeque viridia, crassa, obovata ad fere spathulata, 

 aliquando emarginata, margine lata et incrassata, venis non prominulis patentibus. Petioli -5-1 cm. 

 longl. Folia 2-4 cm. longa et 1-5-2-5 cm. lata. Alabastri graeile pedunculo 1 cm. longo, pedicellos dimidio 

 aeqtulongos ferente. Cupula hemisphaerica. Operculum liemispkaerico-conoideum. Antherae in locu- 

 lamentis parallelis dekiscentes, filamentis basi adherentibus, apice glandula. Fructus pedunculati, 

 pedicellati, fere hemisphaerici, plerumque circiter 9 cm. diametro. Margo latissima planaque, valvarum 

 ap'c'bis exsertis. Valvae plerumque 4. 



Species ad E. leptopo-lam vergit sed incerte ponatur. 



A shrub 6 or 10 feet high. The branchlets round and the bark deciduous. 



Juvenile leaves. — Yellowish-green, slightly or wholly glaucous, shortly petiolate, 

 nearly circular, or with a blunt apex, up to 3 cm. in diameter as seen, venation moder- 

 ately prominent, spreading, the lateral veins roughly parallel, intramarginal vein 

 scarcely evident. 



Mature leaves. — Petiolate, glaucous, equally green on both sides, thick, obovate 

 to almost spathulate, sometimes emarginate, venation hardly visible, spreading, with 

 the intramarginal vein distinctly removed from the edge, the thickened margin remark- 

 ably broad, pale-coloured. Petioles -5 to 1 cm. Leaves 2-4 cm. long, and l-5-2*5 cm. 

 broad. 



Flowers. — Buds on a slender peduncle of 1 cm. supporting slender pedicels of 

 half that length. Calyx tube hemispherical, operculum hemispheric-conoid. 



The anthers open widely in quite lateral parallel slits, filament attached at 

 base, a small gland at the top. It flowered on September 16th, 1900, and was observed 

 to flower each year during the same month. 



Fruits. — Pedunculate and pedicellate, remarkably hemispherical. The fruit 

 usually a hemisphere, with a very broad, flat rim, the tips of the valves protruding, 

 but not greatly. Valves usually four. Most of the fruits I have seen are about -9 cm. 

 in diameter, but I have one 1-1 cm. in diameter, with a depth similar to that of the 

 other fruits ; in consequence its appearance is more tazza-like. 



