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Pednucles mostly axillary, slightly flattened and recurved, widening under the umbel, which 

 consists of three to five flowers. Pedicels slender, thickened upwards. Operculum conical, widest some 

 distance above the junction with the calyx-tube, acute. Calyx-tube ovoid-campanulate, the disc produced 

 above the base of the operculum, forming a staininal ring covered by the operculum when in bud. Anthers 

 oblong, the cells parallel, opening in longitudinal slits, white in colour, the filaments green, and inflected 

 in the bud. Style thick, shorter than the stamens, with a capitate, somewhat large stigma. 



Fruit urceolate-globular, abruptly tapering into the pedicel, the summit domed, with the rim well 

 defined, protruding or even reflexed, the valves, deltoid, more or less flush with the summit of the capsule. 



Leaves 7-12 cm. long, 10-17 mm. broad. Peduncles about 2-5 cm. long; pedicels slightly over 

 1 cm. long. Operculum 1 cm. long, S mm. diameter in the widest part (i.e., about one-quarter of the 

 height). Calyx-tube 6 mm. long. Stamina! ring 2 mm. long. Fruit 6 mm. long, and the same in diameter. 



RANGE. 



Habitat near Salmon Gums in the Coolgardie district, to the south of Dun das, 

 Western Australia, in red clay soil, forming low forests with E. diptera, flowering 

 January to April. The type is No. 1,051a, Herb. C. A. Gardner, and was collected 

 by W. T. Brown, 13th January, 1925. 



AFFINITIES. 



The affinities of this species appear to lie with E. erythronema and E. eremophila, 

 particularly with the var. ma/rginata of the former. This is especially the case with the 

 stamhial ring, which is perhaps the floral disc. This projects above the commisural 

 fine, fining the operculum for some distance. This continuation of the disc remains 

 erect in the flower like a continuation of the calyx-tube, but after flowering becomes 

 reflexed and forms the remarkable rim of the domed disc of the fruit. Something 

 of the kind is observable in E. erythronema var. margmata, but the ring remains erect. 



From the collector's remarks it appears that E. Dielsii is much like E. diptera 

 in habit, and the timber and barks are certainly very much alike. 



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