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DESCRIPTION. 



CCXXI. E. strieta Sieber. 



In Sprengel's Cur. Post, 195 (1827). 

 The original description consists of the following words :— 



E. operculo submutico pedunculis lateralibus 2-floris linearibus acutis coriaceis glabris subpunctatis. 



See also De Candolle's figure in Mem. Myrt. t. 8 ("the anthers incorrect," 

 Bentham).* The type is Sieber's PL Exs. No. 472, and it is more fully described in 

 DC. Prod, iii, 218, of which we find a translation in G. Don's " Dichlamydeous Plants," 

 ii, 819, as follows :— 



Operculum hemispherical, mucronate, shorter than the cupula ; peduncles lateral, nearly terete, 

 a little longer than the petioles ; flowers 5-6 in a head ; leaves stiff, linear-lanceolate, coriaceous, acuminated. 

 Native of New Holland. Fruit globose, 3 lines in diameter. Petioles a line and a half long. Peduncles 

 3 lines long. Leaves 3 inches long, and 4 lines broad, rather shining, having the middle nerve hardly 

 prominent, and the rest veinless. 



I have described it on modern lines at p. 277, Part IX, of the present work, as 

 E. virgata var. strieta. 



The juvenile leaves, figured at fig. 6, Plate 167, have not previously been figured 

 or described. They are lanceolate or narrow lanceolate, acuminate, with well defined, 

 spreading veins, the intramarginal vein well removed from the margin. 



The arboreal forms referred to under E. strieta, at Part IX, pp. 278 and 282. 

 are partly E. strieta, (as regards the Faulconbridge specimens), but mainly referable to 

 the now better known E. fraxinoides Deane and Maiden {see Part XXXIX). 



The normal form is depicted at figures 12-15 of Plate 43, and also at figures F 

 and G of Plate 94 of my " Forest Flora of New South Wales." The coarser arboreal 

 (Faulconbridge) form is figured at 4«, Plate 44. 



The figure of E. strieta in Bot. Mag. t. 7074 puzzles me. The specimen figured 

 was 30 feet high in the Temperate House at Kew ; it is thereforemot the normal species, 

 which is a shrub. At the same time, it attains a larger size exceptionally {e.g., the 

 Falconbridge specimens), but the plant figured at t. 7074 is a narrow-leaved plant. The 

 fruits depicted (which are from herbarium specimens) probably belong to E. fraxinoides 

 Deane and Maiden, which has been dealt with in Part XXXIX of the present work. 

 This is a species which attains tree size, and which was formerly, as regards some of the 



* For a discussion on the anthers in E. strieta see Part IX, p. 279. 



