DESCRIPTION. 



CLXXXIL E. occidentalis Endlicher. 



In Enumeratio Plantarum, Huegel, 49 (1837). 



Following is a translation of the original : — 



Leaves alternate, oblong-lanceolate, acuminate, with a vein parallel to the margin, umbels axillary, 

 peduncle flat-compressed, longer than the petiole, pedicels somewhat compressed, twice as short as the 

 campanulate cylindrical calyx-tube. 



Operculum conical, terete, coriaceous, a third longer than the calyx-tube. 



Fremantle,* Swan River (Huegel). 



Distinguished from E. resinifera by leaves more shortly acuminate, flat compressed, bilinear peduncle, 

 broader towards the apex, somewhat compressed pedicels, twice as short as the calyx-tube, which is 3 lines 

 long. The operculum finally becomes a third longer and not twice as long as the calyx-tube. 



Then Schauer, in Plantae Preissiance, i, 128 (1844-5), redescribed it and gave 

 Cape Riche and the Gordon River as additional localities. Mueller, in Fragmenta ii, 39 

 (1860) added information. 



Bentham (B. Fl. iii, 235) (1866) gave the first English description of the species, 



as follows : — 



A tall shrub or tree, attaining sometimes 80 feet (Oldfield). 



Leaves from oval-oblong and under 2 inches to narrow-lanceolate falcate and above & inches long, 

 very thick, with oblique veins scarcely conspicuous or rarely prominent underneath, the intramarginal 

 one a little distant from the edge. 



Peduncles axillary or lateral, more or less flattened and often recurved, with three to five flowers 

 on rather thick pedicels of 2 to 3 lines. 



Calyx-tube urceolate-oblong, 3 to 4 lines long at the time of flowering, smooth or obscurely ribbed, 

 usually somewhat dilated at the orifice. 



Operculum -J- to f inch long, very obtuse or rarely almost acute. 



Stamens i to § inch long, erect as in E. cormita ; anthers oblong, with parallel cells. 



Ovary very convex or conical at the top. 



Fruit urceolate, 6 to 8 lines long when full grown, about 5 lines diameter at the top and narrower 

 below, the rim narrow, not prominent, the capsule somewhat sunk but conical in the centre, and the valves 

 protruding when open. 



Mueller (" Eucalyptographia "), figures the species (with leaves as coarse as 

 E. agitata Domin, see below, p. 138) and gives additional particulars. 



The filaments are creamy-yellow. Note the distinctly campanulate fruits. 



The timber of the Flat-topped Yate is brown, with gum- veins, or, in small stems, 

 pale coloured with darker brown heart. 



* It does not occur at Fremantle, and this statement is a slip of the pen. 



