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DESCRIPTION. 



CLXXXIII. E. macmndra F.v.M. 



In Bentham's Flora Australiensis iii, 235 (18G6). 

 Following is the original : — 



A shrub or small tree with a smooth bark. (Maxwell.) 



Leaves from ovate-lanceolate to narrow-lanceolate, rarely exceeding 4 inches, very thick and 

 smooth, the veins more numerous and more diverging than in E. cornula, and the intramarginal one 

 usually nearer the edge, but generally scarcely visible. 



Peduncles rigid and flattened, mostly i to 1 inch long, with 8 to 16 or even more flowers, sessile 

 or on very short pedicels. 



Calyx-tube obovoid-campanulate, usually 2i to 3 lines long and rather less in diameter, but in 

 some specimens smaller. 



Operculum usually above 1 inch long. 



Stamens when dry yellowish, erect in the bud as in E.cornuta, the edge of the disc inflected; 

 anthers oblong, with parallel cells. 



Ovary flat-topped, the style not thickened at the base. 



Fruit semi-ovoid, truncate, 3 to 4 lines diameter, or in some specimens rather smaller, the rim 

 narrow, on a level with the calyx as well as the flat-topped capsule, the small valves not protruding. 



We have in E. macmndra not only angular filaments (as occur in most of the 

 Cornutge), but these are crinkly or bent, and in each bend is an oil-gland or a resinous 

 mass. In filaments which are truly thread-like, where there are glands, they stand out 

 like tubercles (e.g., E. megacarpa, fig. 6b, Plate 78), but in the Cornutae, while studding 

 the surface of the filament, they do not appear to project beyond its outline. 



SYNONYM. 



E. oeeiclentalis Endl., var. macrandra Maiden. 



Forms a thicket of Marlock 4-8 feet high on a slope of Gaalgugup Hill, Kalgan Plains. 



Suckers bright green on both sides, ovate acuminate, apparently similar to those of E. occidentalis. 



Branches brittle. Very long opercula, bulging a little at the top. 



Fruit conoid, slightly angled, not urceolate or scarcely so, usually three valved, capitate or with very 

 short pedicels. Tips of valves not exsert or only slightly so. 



(Maiden in Journ. W. A. Nat. Hist. Soc. Ill, Jan. 1911.) 



