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DESCRIPTION. 



CXCIX. E. dumosa A. Cunn. 



Schauer in W (lifers' Repertorium ii, 925 (1843). 



Is Part IV, page 97, of the present work I had followed Mueller in looking upon 

 E. dumosa as a variety of E. incrassata Labill., but I now tkihk that Bentham's view 

 in looking upon it as a distinct species, although debatable, is worthy of restatement. 

 Bentham (B.F1. iii, 230) gave the first description in English. For the original 

 description, and the history of the species, see Part rV, page 97, of the present work. 

 It is most usually separated from E. incrassata by its ribbed operculum, but it is 

 closely related to that species. See also page 223. 



Mr. J. M. Black gives the aboriginal name of " Gi-lja" as current at Murat 

 Bay, South Australia. Mr. C. E. Lane-Poole says it is known as "Mirret" or 

 " Bibbon-tree " in Western Australia. 



It is figured at Plate 16 of the present work, and juvenile foliage of the species 

 from Wyalong, N.S.W. (at no great distance from the type locality), is shown at fig. 1, 

 Plate 19. 



The term Mallee as applied to this species, is sometimes modified by authors. 



VARIETIES. 



1. Var. eonglobata (B.Br.) Benth. 



This is illustrated at Plate 17, Part IV of the present work. At top of page 107 

 we have the Port Lincoln, South Australia, localities, and Bay 9 is Memory Cove and 

 Bay 10 is Port Lincoln. See pages 107 and 108 of my " Sir Joseph Banks, the Father 

 of Australia." 



It is found also in Western Australia. It occurs not unplentifully at Kalgan 

 Plains, Hopetoun and Esperance. Specimens from the two latter places have the fruits 

 unusually large and with the rim well defined (Maiden in Journ. W.A. Nat. Hist. Soc, 

 Vol. iii, Jan. 1911). 



So that we know it from near Albany in the west to Port Lincoln in the east, a 

 distance of 1400 miles, and it does not appear to have been recorded from intermediate 

 localities or places much inland. 



Principally owmg to the sessile character of the inflorescence, there is some 

 justification for the view that it may perhaps be looked upon as a separate species, and 

 I will refer to the matter later (not in this Part). 



Its fruits may be compared with those of E. annulata Benth., fig. 3, Plate 145, 

 with its hemispherical calyx-tubes and exsert valves. 



