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DESCRIPTION. 



CDXX. E. pygmaea Blakely. 



Joum. Roy. Soc, N.S.W., LXI, 149 (1927). 



Mallee 2-6 pedes alta, caulibus aliquanto dense ramosis, ramulis quadrangularibus ; folia juvenilia glabra, 

 sessdia, elliptica vel ovata ; folia matura alternata, petiolata, falcato-lanceolata, obscure viridia ; gemmae, 

 parvae, cylindroido-clavatse, obtusee ; antheras reniformes ; capsulas sessiles, depresso-globulares, 8 x 10 mm- 



A Mallee-like shrub, 2-6 feet high, with somewhat densely branched stems, and quadrangular 

 branchlets; juvenile leaves glabrous, sessile, elliptical to ovate; adult leaves alternate, petiolate, falcate- 

 lanceolate, dark green ; buds small, cylindroid-clavate, obtuse ; anthers reniform ; fruit sessile, depressed- 

 globular, 8 x 10 mm. 



A shrubby Mallee-like Stringybark, 2-6 feet high, with short branching stems -J- to lwin. in diameter. 

 Branchlets reddish, more or less quadrangular and sulcate, caused by the decurrent petioles. 



Juvenile leaves glabrous, the first or lowest pair opposite, sessile or shortly petiolate, elliptical 

 to broadly ovate, 5-10 cm. long, 3-9 cm. broad; veins distinct, the lateral ones more or less bifurcate, 

 intramarginal vein distant from the edge. Internodes densely hispid with stellate hairs. 



. Intermediate leaves alternate, petiolate, obliquely-lanceolate, thick, coriaceous, venulose, 7-15 

 cm. long, 4-10 em. broad ; lateral veins distinct, often broken or irregular, spreading at an angle of 50-60° 

 with the midrib, and uniting with the undulate intramarginal nerve 3-4 mm. from the thickened nerve-like 

 margin. 



Adlllt leaves alternate, petiolate, falcate-lanceolate to obliquely-lanceolate, with a long straight 

 or uncinate point; usually a dark glossy green on both surfaces, 4-11 cm. long, 2-3 cm. broad, venulose, 

 but the veins more conspicuous on the lower surface, the median nerve usually reddish and channelled 

 above ; lateral veins diverging at an angle of 50-60° with the midrib ; the intramarginal vein closer to the 

 margin on the lower half of the lamina than on the upper half. 



Inflorescence in simple axillary umbels on compressed peduncles, 10-13 mm. long, 3-4 mm. 

 broad. Buds 8-15 in the head, sessile, yellowish, cylindroid-clavate, obtuse, slightly angular. Calyx-tube 

 funnel-shaped or obconical ; operculum blunt, hemispherical, much shorter than the calyx-tube. 



Fruit sessile or nearly so, 8 x 10 mm., depressed globular, with a thick prominently raised disc nearly 

 as deep as the calycine portion and usually reddish, three or four-celled, the small deltoid enclosed valves 

 deciduous. 



RANGE. 



It seems to be restricted to a small area, about an acre in extent, on the top of 

 a gravelly sandstone plateau, a little south of the 17-mile post between Hornsby and 

 Galston, about 24 miles north by rail from Sydney; near Kuring-gai railway 

 station, New" South Wales. Further extensions of its range may be looked for in 

 somewhat similar situations, as the same class of country on which it grows extends for 

 many miles along the coast range, both north and south of the localities indicated above. 



