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Fruits ellipsoid-urceolate, three-celled, finally wrinklcd-costate, margin of the vertex thin, valves 

 included, seeds winged. 



In the desert round the Biarble Range mountains between Spencer's Gulf and Coffin Bay (WiUiehni): 



A rather tall, handsome shrub. Branches slender, angled, then terete, flexible. 



Leaves for the most part 2^-4 inches long, §-l|- inches broad, younger ones sometimes broader; 

 on the upper side in the fresh state, at least rather saturated green, on the under side pale green, shining on 

 both sides. 



Peduncles ^-1 inch long. 



Flower-bearing pedicels up to 2 lines long, fruit-bearing ones sometimes measuring up to 6 lines. 



Opened buds 4-6 lines long, often pale. 



Operculum about 2 lines broad. 



Calyx-tube at least in the dry state wrinkled-striate. 



The longer filaments scarcely more than J inch. 



Anthers about J line long, broader at the top, almost truncate. 



Style almost semi-exsert from the calyx, about 2 lines long. 



Fruit 5-7 lines long, 3-4 lines thick, contracted at the mouth to about a line and a half, in the drying 

 and when hard, furrowed sterile seeds J-J line long, more or less rhomboid or tetrahedous ; fertile seeds few, 

 ovate, scarcely longer than 1 line, in the specimens we have received dirty looking and pale. 



It is related to E. urnigera, the alpine species, which sometimes is a shrub and sometimes a tree up 

 to 50 feet high, and in the section of Leiophloice, because the floral characteristics are very similar; it 

 differs in the imperforate somewhat discoloured leaves, the not distinctly wrinkled-striate calyx-tube and 

 perhaps in the important marks of the fruit which have been already stated. 



Miquel compares the species to E. obtusi flora. The species also somewhat resembles E. gomphocephala. 



RANGE. 



It is mainly confined to South Australia. Mueller (" Eucalyptographia " ) gives 

 the range as " Along Spencer's Gulf in many places; thence dispersed westward at 

 least as far as Streaky Bay (Colonel Warburton); on the stony declivities of Mount 

 Remarkable and at Wirrabara, ascending to considerable elevations (J. E. Brown); 

 about the lower Wimmera (J. Allen)." The Wimmera is a Victorian river, and the 

 lower Wimmera would be, I suppose, say between Dimboola and Lake Hindmarsh. I 

 have personally never seen any indigenous specimens from Victoria, and in view of the 

 fact that it is a commonly cultivated tree, one should verify reputed Victorian localities 

 for it as an indigenous plant. 



The late J. Ednie Brown, in his " Forest Flora of South Australia," says that 

 " Its principal home is on the summits, slopes, and foothills of the Flinders Range, 

 lying between Crystal Brook in the south and Mount Brown and Devil's Peak on the 

 north. In the somewhat extensive range of country within the boundaries named, 

 the trees are most numerous in that portion known as the Wirrabara Forest Reserve, 

 where they can be seen in all their grandeur of growth. ... On Eyre Peninsula, 

 from within a few miles westward of Port Lincoln in the Marble Ranges, the species 

 Ion i is a very considerable proportion of the forest growth; there it is of rather a de- 

 pressed or dwarfed form, when compared with the stately trees ... on the 

 Flinders Range." 



