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DESCRIPTION. 



CLXXXIV. E. salubris F.v.M. 



In Fragmenta X, 54 (1876). 

 Following is a translation of the original description : — 



A shrub. 



Loaves linear or falcate lanceolate, bright, covered all over with oil-dots, veins very line and mini- 

 what spreading, the longitudinal ones close to the margin, umbels 4-7 flowered. 

 Peduncles 2-edged compressed. 



Operculum conical-hcmiellipsoid obtuse, two or three times longer than the hemispherical tube 

 and smooth like it, filaments very much broken before flowering. 



Anthers oblong and dehiscing by a longitudinal aperture on either side. Between Victoria Spriug 

 and Ularing, W.A. (Young). 



Branchlets rather slender and somewhat terete, sometimes hoary. 



Leaves scattered, 2-4 inches long, 3-9 lines broad, distinctly petiolate, veins sunk (immcr3e), not 

 very thick. 



Umbels axillary, solitary and terminal, shortly paniculate. 



Peduncles about J inch long, 1-1J lines broad. 



Pedicels 2-4 lines long, slightly angled. 



Operculum about 3 lines long. 



Stamens well unfolded and fruit unknown. (See below.) 



In the next volume of the Fragmenta, viz., XI, 12, Mueller redescribed the 

 species, making some important alterations. Following is a translation of his new 

 description : — 



A tall tree, branchlets angled at first. 



L 'aves soattsrid, lanc?olate-faleate, shining on both sides, covered all over with oil dots, veins very 

 fine, ascending at a very acute angle, both the outermost veins slightly remote from the margin. 



Umb?ls axillary, presently lateral, few-flowered, peduncles linear-cuneate, very much compressed. 



Pedicels somewhat thick, angled, almost as long as the semi-ovate calyx-tube or twice as long as it. 



Operculum hemiellipso'd, very obtuse, almost twice as long as the calyx-tube, all the fertile stamens 

 broken up before flowering. 



Anthers oval-oblong, basifixed, dehiscina on both sides by a marginal cleft, connective rather 

 broad and prominent for the whole length of the anther, stigma not broader than the style. 



Fruits small, semi-ovate, 3 or more rarely 4 celled, valves short almost deltoid, sunk, fertile seeds 

 wingless. 



In hills near the source of the Swan River (Mueller) at least up to the oases of Yurindin (Forrest) 

 Ularing, and Victoria Spring (Giles), making small forests, here and there, with E. salmo)ioph1oia. 



A tree, as far as I have seen, reaching an altitude of 120 feet, here and there 150 feet, called by the 

 colonists at Swan River " Fluted Gum Tree, - ' on account of the trunk, which has some longitudinally very 

 broad and often somewhat twisted furrows and canals. The tree is also known by the colonists by the name 



