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We know the tree -that Mueller dealt with in this step-motherly fashion, but he 

 never described it in a way it would be considered necessary at the present day. This 

 omission may now be supplied. 



A tall tree with " a rugose ash-coloured bark (Rhytiphloiee) on the trunk, 

 persisting to the branches." Timber red, very tough. The tree bears the name of 

 '* Morrel." To a less extent it goes under the name of " Poot." The bark is further 

 described in Part XV. p. 166. 



Juvenile leaves glaucous, lanceolate to broadly lauceolate, secondary veins spreading, the 

 intrarnarginal vein well removed from the edge, the axis angular. (See figs, la, 16, Plate 67 ; outlines 

 of leaves, slightly alternate, shown in Plate 13 of Mueller's " Forest Resources of Western Australia.") 



Mature leaves narrow lanceolate, acuminate petiolate. lustrous. See Plate 13 aforesaid for 

 leave? and other details. 



Peduncles terete or slightly angular, each with three to nine more or less pedicellate flowers. 



Buds glabrous, operculum elongated, more than twice as long as the calyx-tube, and continuou 

 with it. 



Flowers with cream-coloured filaments, the stamens inflected in the bud, anthers broad, thick, 

 white, the slits slightly oblique. 



Fruits ovoid or globose, the rim flat or concave, the capsule sunk, but the slender points of the 

 valves formed by the split base of the style protruding. 



SYNONYM. 



E. oleosa F.V.M., var. longicornis F.v.M. Fragm. xi, 14 (as already stated). 



RANGE. 



It is confined to Western Australia so far as we know, and would appear to be 

 most widely diffused in the western part of the State. Northerly it is recorded as far 

 as Carnamah on the Midland Railway, 179 miles from Perth, and southerly as far as 

 Broome Hill. 237 miles to the south. Easterly it occurs in the Kalgoorlie district, but 

 its range requires to be far better defined than appears to have been done at present. 



Following are some specimens in the National Herbarium, Sydney : — 



Mueller labelled specimens from " Upper Swan River," " Morrel " and " E. oleosa, 

 var. longicornis." These match his fig. 13 in his " Report on the Forest Resources of 

 Western Australia " exactly (see fig. 4, Plate 66). 



Carnamah ; Victoria District (Dr. A. Morrison). 

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