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DESCRIPTION. 



CLXXXVI. E. Cooperiana F.v.M. 



In Fragmenta XI, 83 (1880). 

 Following is a translation of the original : — 



Branchlets acute-angled. 



Leaves scattered, coiiaceous, ovate-lanceolate, the* same colour on both sides, sliming, imperforate, 

 lateral veins pinnate-spreading, many and faint, marginal vein distant from the edge. 



Umbels axillary, solitary, hanging down or nodding, many-flowered, placed on a peduncle somewhat 

 broadly compressed. 



Pedicels rather thick, angled, almost the same length as the calyx. 



Calyx-tube shortly cylindrical, very obtuse at the somewhat swollen base, almost three times as long 

 as the patella shaped or depressed hemispherical operculum. 



All the stamens fertile, inHVxed before expansion, anthers bas'fixed, cordate-gLobose, dehiscing 

 on both sides by a large pore, stigma scarcely thicker than the style. 



Capsule deeply included, five-celled, with a flattop. 



In South West Australia, but no locality stated. (Maxwell.) 



The height of this species is entirely unknown to me. Branchlets thick, rigid, compressed, tetra- 

 gonous. 



Leaves with somewhat long petioles, rigid, 2J-4 inches long, f-l£ inches broad, not very inequi- 

 lateral, obtuse at the base, near the apex gradually acute, the point rather blunt; oil-glands hidden. 



Peduncles before flowering about g inch long, petioles a little or conspicuously shorter, 1-1£ lines 

 broad, broadly dilated at the base. 



Flowers 17 in the umbel or fewer. 



Pedicels thickened towards the top. 



Calyx-tube 2-4 lines lone, slightly cubical or prismatic, when drying slightly obtuse amrjed and 

 folded. 



Operculum two or here and there three times broader than high, very obtuse and shortlv apii ulate, 

 slightly rugulose. 



Stamens inflexed before expansion, but not bent at an acute angl. . A few of the anthers sometimes 

 t urn into an almost renate form ; the connective near the apex at the back, thickened with a swelling gland. 

 Style shortly exsert. 



Calyx-tube soon after the fall of the stamens not thickened, perhaps at the margin permanently 

 verv much compressed, but in the fruiting stage not known to me. 



(Then follow observations in regard to eertain allied species. See below, p. 168). 



I have given the name of Ell wood Cooper to this species ; he is a distinguished promoter of Eucalyptus 

 cultivation in California, founder of the Santa Barbara College, and who, besides many pamphlets, pub- 

 lished " Forest Culture and Eucalyptus Trees " (San Francisco, 1876). 



