DESCRIPTION. 



CLXXVI. E. Lehmanni Preiss, Herb., 



according to Schauer in PI. Preiss, i, 127 (1845). 



It was, however, described as Symphyomyrtus, see below, where a translation is given. 



Then we have Bentham's description, in B.F1. iii, 233 : — 

 A tall shrub or small tree, with a roughish, reddish bark, coming off in irregular sheets. (Oldfield.) 



Leaves from ovate to oblong or almost lanceolate, obtuse, under 3 inches long, very thick, the 

 veins very oblique and rather distant, the intramarginal one at a distance from the edge. 



Flowers several, often twenty or more together in dense heads upon thick recurved peduncles 

 1 to 3 inches long, and sometimes much flattened, the receptacle forming a globose mass of ^ inch or more 

 diameter, in which the calyx tubes (usually 2 to 3 lines diameter) are more or less immersed. 



Operculum cylindrical, dilated at the base, obtuse, often 1J inches long. 



Stamens li to 2 inches long, erect in the bud as in E. cornuta; anthers obkng, parallel-celled. 



Ovary convex at the top. 



Fruits half immersed in the receptacle, about h inch diameter, the rim very narrow, the capsule 

 not depressed, the exserted valves connivent into a cone, tapering into the persistent base of the style. 



The juvenile leaves of E. Lehmanni have not hitherto been described. Those 

 of E. cornuta are figured at la and lb, Plate 143, Part XXXIV. Those of E. Lehmanni 

 from Wilson's Inlet (Sid. W. Jackson) are petiolate, thin, small and nearly orbicular 

 when quite young, but becoming elliptical to broadly elliptical, with a mucro, as growth 

 proceeds. So far as specimens I have ' seen are concerned, the juvenile leaves of 

 E. cornuta are much larger. 



Bark of the trees from Wilson's Inlet is smooth, with the usual patches preparing 

 for exfoliation, such as commonly seen in " gums." 



W. Percy Wilkinson (Proc. Roy. Soc. Vict., 198, 1893) has a note on the 

 examination of oil from leaves of this species. 



The" handsome plate labelled E. cornuta in Bot. May. t. 6140 is E. Lehmanni 

 Preiss. and Sir J. D. Hooker gives a useful account of it. 



He adds — " The flower-heads and flowers of the cultivated plants are more 

 than twice as large as those of any wild specimen in the (Kew) Herbarium." By that 

 he means that those of E. Lehmanni are twice as large as those of E. cornuta. 



The fusion of the buds and fruits into one head is admirably shown hi the 

 drawing. The opercula are not always as brightly coloured as was the Kew specimen. 

 An almost similar plate, probably an adaptation, will be fourd as Euc. cornuta LabilL 

 in " Flore des Series," xxi, 69. Mr. D. E. Hutchins, the well-known forester, informs 

 me that this species, which he calls the bushy Yate, is the most popular shelter-giving 

 tree around Cape Town. 



