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LXXH. E. Forrestiana Diels. 



See Grit. Rev., Part XXII, p. 35, Plate 95. 



This imperfectly known and rare Western Australian species has been collected by 

 Mr. C. A. Gardner, who furnishes the following note : — 



" A Marlock, not a sandplain species, but a species with a very reduced stock. 

 10-20 feet high, erect and erectly branched. Stem or stems to 6 inches in diameter, 

 but usually under 3 inches. Bark greyish, smooth, white in old specimens, a darker 

 greenish-grey in the typical younger plants, smooth, or shedding in small, ribbony 

 flakes. Leaves erect, rather dull, but a shining green, thick and copiously oil-dotted. 

 Buds, flowers, and fruits pendulous, the buds and flowering calyx, also the immature 

 fruit a bright shining scarlet, becoming golden orange-yellow as the fruit ripens, ulti- 

 mately greenish-grown. Filaments lemon-yellow. Grasspatch and southwards to 

 near Scaddan, and northwards to Salmon Gums, in grey sandy loam, forming low, dense 

 thickets, some specimens flowering in May, but this is not the usual flowering season, 

 which probably occurs in the summer months." 



A specimen from Grasspatch (C. A. Gardner, No. 2225), with smaller leaves, 

 and buds with long rostrate operculum nearly as long as the calyx-tube, is figured at 

 fig. 66, plate 283. Compare Plate 95. 



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