147 



2. Var. (?) stenantka Biels. 



I cannot find that Dr. Biels has anywhere described his variety, and all that I 

 have seen of it is a specimen from which fig. 6, plate 149 has been prepared. The 

 name means, of course, " narrow-flowered," and refers to the narrowness of the calyx- 

 tube, as shown in the figure. In its comparatively narrow peduncles, in its pedicels, 

 and in the contour of the unripe fruit, it seems nearest to E. occidmtalis , but in the 

 absence of ripe fruits and of other material, it is impossible to say what justification 

 there is for looking upon it as a variety. 



Dr. Diel's label is as follows, from which it is stated that it occurs at Lake Cowan 

 and its number is 5,245. I hope local collectors will give attention to it : — 



" E. occidentalis Endl., var. stenantha Diels, in ditione Coolgardensi pr. lacum 

 Cowan; in fructicetis apertis solo limoso lapidoso." (L. Diels, No. 5245, 1st 

 November, 1901.) 



3. Var. eremophila Diels. 



Following is a translation of the original description : — 



Tree-like, up to 5 metres high, leaves linear-lanceolate, coriaceous, shiny, not glaucescent ; peduncles 

 flattened, pedicels often elongate. Otherwise, similar to the type. 



Found in the Coolgardie district, near Boorabbin, in gravelly places, flowering in the month of 

 November (E. Pritzel, No. 917), near the town of Coolgardie, in open scrub-lands in sandy, muddy places, 

 flowering in the month of November near Gilmores. (Diels, No. 5,264, Engler's Jahrb., XXXV. 442, 1905.) 



To Dr. Diels' description may be added that the fruits are cylinclroid (sometimes 

 more spherical) not urceolate as in the normal species, and that the top of the capsule 

 is flatfish when not fully ripe, is nearly flush with the top of the rim, giving the fruit, 

 when not fully ripe, a characteristically truncate flatfish appearance. When the fruit 

 is ripe, its mouth becomes rounded and somewhat contracted. 



For a discussion on the position of var. eremophila, as compared with E . platypus , 

 see below, p. 151. 



> RANGE (of var. eremophila). 



This is a dry country form, and its range may be stated as bounded by Watheroo 

 on the Midland Railway, to 140 miles east of Kalgoorlie, and north of Bsperance and 

 back again to the vicinity of the Great Southern Railway. It probably has a very 

 extensive range in country of low rainfall. 



The first two specimens which follow are mentioned by Dr. Diels in his des- 

 cription : — 



" Shrub 4 metres high, flowers yellow, calyptra (opercula) reddish." Near 

 Coolgardie (Dr. L. Diels, No. 5237). Coolgardie, or rather, Boorabbin (E. Pritzel, No. 

 917). I have also received it from Coolgardie (B. C. Webster). 



