DESCRIPTION. 



CCCLXIIL E. Dwyeri, Maiden and Blakely. 



In Journ. Roy. Soc., N.S.W., lax, 160 (1925). 



Mah.ee ramosa, foliis obscuris, foliis maturis crassiusculis, lanceolatis, petiolatis, 

 Venus aliquantum conspicuis, venis secundariis e costa media circiter 45° orientibus 

 imiorescentia in umbellis ad 7 in capitulo, in pedunculis paulum planatis, pedicellis 

 brevibus vel absentibus; alabastris nitentibus, operculis attenuato-conicis, calycis 

 longitudine cum tubo aequantibus; antheris versatilibus, atque ex Macrantheris; 

 fructibus paulum urceolatis vel campanulatis, liemisphericis vel sub-cylindraceis, 

 brevioribus, margine latiore et fere horizontali, valvis exsertis. 



Usually a small, branching Mallee, but, like some of the Mallees, it may exception- 

 ally attain the dimensions of a small tree. The foliage dull-coloured, drying olive- 

 green. 



Juvenile Leaves narrow-lanceolate, but not seen in the earliest state. Inter- 

 mediate leaves (not seen from type locality) broadly-lanceolate. 



Mature Leaves moderately thick, lanceolate, petiolate, the venation not very 

 conspicuous, slightly spreading, but the secondary veins on the whole parallel, and 

 make an angle of about 45 degrees to the midrib; the intramarginal vein distinctly 

 removed from the edge. 



Inflorescence in umbels up to seven in the head, on slightly flattened peduncles 

 up to 1-5 cm. long, the pedicels short or absent. The buds shining and brown in 

 colour, opercula attenuate-conical, of the same length as the calyx-tube, which is 

 scarcely ribbed, and which tapers gradually into the very short pedicel. Anthers 

 versatile, opening in parallel slits, gland at the back; belonging to the Macrantheraa. 



Fl'llits slightly urceolate or campanulate, hemispherical or sub-cylindrical, 

 rather small, up to about 9 mm. in greatest diameter, rim broadish and nearly hori- 

 zontal, the valves whitish (through a thin discal membrane) and distinctly exsert. 



Type, from Gungal, near Merriwa, New South Wales, preferring ridges (J. L. 

 Boorman, September, 1904. 



In honor of the Right Reverend Joseph Wilfred Dwyer, Roman Catholic 

 Bishop of Wagga. New South "Wales, who, when parish priest of Temora, collected 

 this species on several occasions, and who has been an acute observer of native plants 

 for many years. 



