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DESCRIPTION. 



€LXXX. E. gamophylla F.v.M. 



In Fragm. xi, 40 (1878). 



Following is a translation of the original : — 

 Hoary glaucous, branchlete not angled. 



LeayCS opposite, equilateral, entirely connate below, lanceolate above, broader below, spreadingly 

 penniveined, reticulate-veined, peripheral vein irregularly distant from the margin. 



Peduncles very short, thin, terete, two or three flowered, here and there one-flowered, pedicel 

 very short. 



Fruit rather long, cylindrical hemi-ellipsoid, exangular, valves three, more rarely four, almost 

 deltoid, inserted near the very narrow orifice, the fertile wingless seeds many times exceeding in size the 

 sterile ones. 



On Mount Pyrton in the Hammersley Range at a height of 2,500 feet. (J. Forrest). 



I know nothing of its habit. 



Leaves 2-2J inches long, those below f-1 inch broad, somewhat rigid, of the same colour on 

 both sides. 



Flowers axillary except at the ends of the branches. 



Stamens and style unknown. 



Fruits almost half an inch long. Fertile seeds about 1 \ lines long, acute angled, compressed, bearing 

 a very narrow membrane not quite encircling it. (See also notes below under E. perfoliata and E. pruinosa.) 



A specimen from the Elder Exploring Expedition, Fig. 3, Plate 147, named 

 by Mueller, has flowers in five and more, and is not " two or three flowered " as in the 

 original description. The anthers have parallel cells, and the style has no expanded 

 stigma, and is rather short, that is to say, it does not reach above the inflected filaments. 

 The style has a roughened or resinous appearance. 



It is described in English, with a plate, in the " Eucalyptographia ":-" Sometimes the whitish 

 bloom is almost entirely wanting .... According to a note of Rev. H. Kempe, the leaves in aged 

 plants are always connate into pairs, but I observed them .... occasionally severed to near their 

 base, though on one side only. Occasionally leaves occur twice as large as any illustrated in our lithographic 

 plate. Flowers and fruits are variable in size . . . ." He goes on to say that the species is always 

 a " shrub," but the missionaries on the Finke River used to employ its timber, though widths exceeding 

 8 inches were not obtainable. 



It will be seen from the above, and also from the Eucalyptographia plate, that 

 all the leaves known to Mueller, at least at that time, were perfoliate or connate, but r 

 e.g., figures 46, 5, 7, Plate 147, the species may have sessile or even petiolate leaves. 



