DESCRIPTION. 



LIV. E.pruinosa Schauer. 



See Part XII, p. 74, of the present work. A description has not yet been given of 

 the present species. That by Bentham is as follows : — 



A tree with a persistent whitish-grey rough and fissured bark (P. Mueller), the foliage often glaucous 

 or mealy-white. Leaves sessile, opposite or nearly so, very rigid, orbicular-cordate, ovate or oblong, 

 obtuse or rarely almost acute, mostly 2 to 4 inches long. Umbels 3- to 6-flowered, on short peduncles in a 

 terminal corymb or rarely in the upper axils. Pedicels terete, nearly or quite as long as the calyx-tube. 

 Calyx-tube 2 to 3 lines diameter, not angled, more or less tapering into the pedicel. Operculum hemi- 

 spherical or shortly conical, more or less acuminate, rarely as long as the calyx. Stamens 2 to nearly 

 3 lines long, inflected in the bud; anthers very small and globular, with distinct parallel cells, opening in 

 very short slits or circular pores. Ovary slightly convex in the centre. Fruit from ovoid-truncate to 

 almost cylindrical, 3 to 5 lines diameter, scarcely or not at all contracted at the orifice, the rim narrow, 

 the capsule slightly sunk, the valves sometimes protruding. (B.F1. iii, 213.) 



RANGE. 



It is confined to the tropics, and extends from Northern Queensland to the 

 Northern Territory and north Western Australia. Following are some localities 

 additional to those emoted in Part XII, p. 74. See E. Shirleyi, Vaxt LVIII, p. 425, 

 for some localities recorded under E. fruinosa, and since shown to belong to 

 E. Shirleyi. „ 



Queensland. — " Grows more on flats with soils rich in lime, especially in the 

 Etheridge : ' (Dr. H. I. Jensen) ; near Normanton cemetery E. fruinosa is growing 

 with E. tetrodonta on a soil rather more siliceous than that usually selected by Box 

 trees (R. H. Cambage). 



Northern Territory.— Lat. 18° 27', long. 132°. 6th July, 1911. Tree, 4 ft, 6 in. 

 in diameter. Leaves and fruits (G. F. Hill, No. 446) : also 20 miles south-west of 

 Borroloola, 7th September, 1911. Leaves, buds and flowers (No. 566). The type 

 came from the Gulf of Carpentaria (Ferdinand Bauer), probably from the same class 

 of country as No. 566 (G. F. Hill); " Apple-Gum," Roper River Flats and Red Lily 

 Lagoon; also between Bull Oak and Crescent Lagoons and on to Strangway's 

 Crossing and Mole's Hill (Professor Baldwin Spencer, Expedition from Darwin to the 

 Roper River, 1911). It will be seen (Part XII, p. 74) that " Apple Gum " is a name 

 also borne in the Kimberleys, north West Australia. I have not seen the tree and 



