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DESCRIPTION. 



XLIII. E. hemiphloia F.v.M. 



In B.Fl. iii, 216 (1866), and not Fragm., ii, 62, as stated by Bentham. 



In Part XL p. 14, I have described the remarkable muddle connected with the 

 description of this species. The first formal description of it is by Bentham. and it has 

 not previously apppeared in this work. 



A tall tree, sometimes reduced to a shrub. Leaves ovate-lanceolate or lanceolate, falcate or nearly 

 straight, about 3 to 5 inches long, thick and rigid, with very oblique distant veins, almost as in E. obliqua 

 and E. hamartoma. Peduncles slightly angular, about four to eight-flowered, the umbels mostly forming 

 short terminal panicles, although the fruiting ones are usually lateral below the. leaves. Calyx-tube 2 

 to 2-J- lines long and scarcely so much in diameter, tapering into a short thick pedicel or almost sessile. 

 Operculum conical, acuminate, as long as the calyx-tube, or rarely shorter, and more obtuse. Stamens 

 pale-coloured, about 2 lines long or rather more, all perfect, inflected in the bud ; anthers very small, 

 globular, the cells distinct, but opening in pores rather than in slits. Ovary rather deep, slightly conical 

 or convex in the centre. Fruit ovoid-oblong, about 3 to 4 lines long, truncate and slightly contracted at 

 the orifice, very smooth, the rim narrow, the capsule deeply sunk. {B.Fl. iii, 216.) 



The leaves may be described as follows. Specimens were taken from Blacktown, 



21 miles west of Sydney, where it is verv abundant : — 



Juvenile leaves thin, glabrous, pale green throughout, branches pale to dark green, terete at 

 the base, compressed in the upper internodes or the very young ones all semi-quadrangular. Lower 

 leaves orbicular, shortly petiolate, 4-6 cm. long, 2J-6J cm. broad, with distantly marked veins. 



Intermediate leaves broadly lanceolate, with moderately short petioles 6-10 cm. long, 3-7 cm. 

 broad, slightly paler on the lower surface, venation distinct, intramarginal vein distant from the edge; 

 midvein conspicuous, smaller and canaliculate on the upper surface, convex and more prominent on the 

 lower; secondary veins distant, five to seven more distinct than the others, slightly undulate, the lower 

 ones spreading, the upper one branching at an angle of about 45° from the midrib. 



The species seems sufficiently figured at Plate 50, figs. 1-6, Part XI. There is a 

 full plate at Plate 22, Part 7 of my '-' Forest Flora of New South Wales," 



