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DESCRIPTION, 



CCVII. E. pat ell an s F.v.M. 



Journ. Linn. Sec. hi. 84 (1859). 



Following is a translation of the original :— 



A tree frith somewhat terete branchlets, scarcely angled at the apex, leaves alternate,, mcderalcly 

 petiolate, narrow lanceolate, subfalcate, attenuate-acute, covered with scattered pellucid dots, somewhat; 

 shining, -wirh faint veins, peripheral vein somewhat clcse to the margin, 'umbels terminal and axillary, 3-7 

 flowered, paniculate in two or many flowers. Peduncles somewhat terete, a little or twice as long as the 

 angular prdicels. Calyx-lube campanulate, the same length as the pedicel and twice as long as the patellar 

 urnbonate operculum. The valves of the four-celled capsule entirely exsert. 



Near drying creeks at the Roper River. Flowering in the summer. 



A fairly tall tree, like E. microtheca in habit. Bark dirty grey, wrinkled and cracked, persistent 

 on the trunk end branches. Leaves 3-6 inches long, i— 1 inch broad. Peduncles 1 inch long or shorter. 

 Calyx-tube about -1 lines long, somewhat green. Operculum brownish, coriaceous. Valves adnate to the 

 margin of the calyx. 



Then Bentham (B.F1. hi. 244) describes it in the following words, doubting, by the 

 way. its specific rank : — 



A tall tree with a rough furrowed persistent dull whitish bark (F. Mueller). Leaves lanceolate, 

 falcate, acuminate, about 1 to 6 inches long, the veins rather numerous and regular, oblique, the intra- 

 marginclone r:ther distant from the edge. Perfect flowers unknown. Inflorescence perhaps compound. 

 Calyx-tube (only s;en in a diseased persistent bud) hard, hemispherical, about 5 lines diameter, the border 

 prominent. Operculum much depressed, umbonate. Fruit pedicellate, broadly urceclate, about 5 lines 

 diameter, the orifice dilated, the rim broad and flat, the valves protruding. 



RANGE. 



The type was collected at the Roper River, which runs through the Xorthcrn 

 Territory, and flows into the west side of the Gulf of Carpentaria. 



The only specimen which appears to have been preserved, and which is at Kcw, 

 is endorsed i: Upper part of the Roper River. 3rd July. 1856." 

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