161 



DESCRIPTION. 



CLXXXV. E. cladoealyx F.v.M. 



In Linncea XV, 388 (1852). 



Following is a translation : — 



Shrubby, branchlets angular. 



Leaves alternate, coriaceous, elongated-lanceolate, gradually acuminate, slightly curved, pale gn.cn, 

 shin'ng, faintly nerved and veined, the same colour on both sides, impunctate, with a thin margin. 



Umbels pedunculate, lateral, crowded, five to ten flowered. 



Buds claviform. 



Calyx-tube finely campanulate, gradually taper.'ng into a somewhat shorter pedicel, angles obsolete, 

 exceeding three or four times in length the depressed hemispherical thin smooth awnless operculum. 



Fruit urceolate-ovate, costate. 



Collected by C. Wilhemi at the base of the Marble Range. 



Among those of this colony (South Australia) it is most like E.fasciculosa. 



A strong dense shrub, 7-8 feet high. 



Leaves 3-4 inches long, 1 inch broader or narrower towards the base, slightly shiny, for the most 

 part reddish near the margins and mid-vein, more often with a thick uncinate, terminal point. 



The umbels when the leaves are shed are lateral, sometimes paniculate. 



Peduncles £ inch and more long, somewhat smooth, spreading, seldom reflcxed. 



Flowers with the pedicels 8-9 lines long; the calyx -tube drying corrugated, slightly contracted 

 near the middle, a little enlarged at the apex, here with a diameter of 3 lines. 



Stamens whitish, as long as the calyx-tube. 



Fruits i inch long, contracted at the mouth, unequally costate. Valves deeply immersed. Flowering 

 in spr'n? tnd summer. 



Then Miquel, on Mueller's behalf, again described E. cladoealyx F.v.M., in Latin 

 in Ned. Kruidk. Archie]. IV, 135, published in the year 1856. The only addition to 

 the original description is the statement that it somewhat resembles E. obtusiflora. 



In Warpers' Annates botanices systematica; IV, 825 (1857), it is for the third time 

 described (by C. Mueller now) as E. cladoealyx. The description is based on the original 

 description. 



Mueller (the original describer) then redescribed the species under the name of 

 E. corynocalyx in Vol. ii, page 43, of his Fragmenta (1860), still referring to the species 

 as shrubby. He did not, however, mention that the species had already been thrice 

 described under the name of E. cladoealyx; indeed, he omits that name altogether, 

 and leads one to assume (from the references given to difficultly accessible works), that 

 the species corynocalyx had been described at the date of the earliest of the references, 

 viz.,* 1852. j*t 



On a corynocalyx label in the Melbourne Herbarium m" 'Mueller' s handwriting 

 appear the words " called by a clerical error in the manuscript E. cladoealyx in the 



