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DESCRIPTION. 



CXCL E. grandifolia R. Br. 



InB.Fl. hi, 250 (1866). 

 Following is the original : — 



E. Br., Herb. A small tree, with the outer bark brown and deciduous, the inner whitish and very 

 smooth (R. Brown). 



Leaves opposite or nearly so, petiolate, from ovate to ovate-lanceolate, 4 to 6 inches long in the 

 specimens, but probably often larger, rigid, with rather fine diverging veins, the intramarginal one remote 

 from the edge. 



Flowers rather large, on pedicels of \ to \ inches, three to ten together, rather clustered than 

 umbellate, on a very short lateral peduncle, reduced sometimes to a tubercle (probably the inflorescence 

 consists of several umbels reduced to one or two flowers each). 



Calyx -tube very short, broad, and open, 4 to nearly 5 lines diameter. 



Operculum convex or almost hemispherical, obtuse or umbonatc, much shorter than the 

 calyx-tube. 



Stamens 4 to 5 lines long or rather more, inflected in the bud, anthers oblong, with parallel 

 distinct cells. 



Ovary flat-topped. 



Fruit — Unknown. 



Juvenile leaves very large, petiolate, glabrous. Dr. Jensen sent from Darwin 

 a juvenile leaf which, in its dried state, is 16 inches long and 1\ inches broad. A large 

 one is figured at fig. 1, p. 153. 



Mature leaves often puckered (more than undulate), smooth and leathery. 

 They may be quite narrow, and may be still opposite. The extraordinary variation 

 in the leaves of this species is only partly brought out in Plates 153 and 154. These 

 large leaves differ from those of E. clavigera in being petiolate and glabrous. 



The buds have very long pedicels. The fruits are cylindroid to hemispherical, 

 often urceolate and sometimes very large. 



The late Mr. J. 6. Luehmann (Proc. Aust. Assoc. Adv. Science VII, 525) looked 

 upon E . grandifolia R. Br. as a variety of E. clavigera A. Cunn. 



RANGE. 



Bentham gives " Islands of the Gulf of Carpentaria," R.Brown (perhaps Northern 

 Territory), as the only locality. 



It is found also in the tropical portions of Queensland and Western Australia, 

 with abundant connecting localities to the Northern Territory ones. 



