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DESCRIPTION. 



CCCXXXII. E. leptophylla F.v.M. 



In Miquel in Ned. Kruidk. ArcMef. IV, 153 (1859). 



The original description (in Latin) will be found in Part XIV, pp. 144, 145, of the 

 present work. 



This may be translated in the following words : — 



E. leptophylla Ferd. Mull. MSS. (E. perforata Behr. Heib. partim. E. xanthonema Turczaninow.) 



A slender, graceful shrub, branchlets somewhat red or becoming yellow, leaves broad-linear, extending 

 into a thin point, coriaceous, frequently covered with transparent dots, umbels axillary, 3-7 flowered, 

 calyx-tube obconical, campanulate, the same length as the yellowish, broadly conical, non-umbouate, 

 somewhat smooth operculum ; fruits small and cup-shaped. 



Xew Holland, Australia, Murray Scrub, flowering in the summer (Dr. Behr.). 



A shrub the height of a man, leaves 2-3 inches long, 1J--2 or rarely 3 lines broad, a distinct mid-rib 

 on both sides, which, however, is not prominent ; secondary veins not prominent. Peduncles 1-1$ lines 

 long; flowers subsessile. Calyx-tube 1 line long. Nearest to E. riminalis, from which it differs in having 

 leaves narrower and the operculum more pointed and longer. 



The following supplementary notes seem all that are necessary : — ■ 



Juvenile leaves cordate to elliptical, smaller and thinner than in E. uncinata, paler on the under- 

 side. They have been figured at figs 6a and 6b of Plate 62, and others, from practically the type locality, 

 in fig. 2, Plate 229 (herewith). 



Mature leaves. They are distinctly petiolate, but this is not referred to in the original description. 



Buds slightly pedicellate, the common peduncle much longer and terete. Operculum occasionally 

 rostrate. 



Fruits invariably clavate or club-like. 



Illustrations.— Figures 5, 6, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21 of 

 Plate 62, Part XIV. See the legends at pp. 162, 163, which are all E. leptophylla. No. 11 

 illustrates the type of E. leptophylla. No. 21 has very pointed opercula, and is not 

 typical. It shows transition to E. uncinata. 



The type specimen has been drawn from ampler material in Plate 229 of the 

 present Part. 



The oil purporting to be from E. uncinata, and which was obtained from Parilla, 

 South Australia, in Baker and Smith's " Research on the Eucalypts," p. 234 (2nd Ed.), 

 was obtained from E. leptophylla. 



