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DESCRIPTION. 



CCXXVI. E. pachyphylla F.v.M. 



In J own. Linn. Soc. iii, 98 (1859). 



The description may be translated in the following words : — 



Shrubby, with angular young branches, and alternate leaves on moderately long petioles, thickly 

 coriaceous, ovate, or lanceolate-ovate, acuminate, hardly unequal-sided, not perforate, finely penniveincd, 

 the peripheral vein remote from the margin ; with axillary umbels irregularly 3-flowered, the peduncles and 

 pedicels very short. Flowers not known. The tube of the fruiting-calyx depressed-hemispherical, with 

 four distinct ribs and more indistinct ones, with raised margins, the capsules 4- to 5-celled, convex at the 

 top, with somewhat exserted valves, the fertile seeds with narrow wings, rather light-coloured. 



Hab. In a sandy desert at Hooker's Creek (Northern Territory). Flowering time, autumn. 



Shrub of the height of a fathom or slightly higher. Leaves mostly 1| to 2|- inches long, opaque 

 in dry specimens. Flowers not known. Fruits 6 to 8 lines in diameter, the margin just produced above 

 the valves. Fertile seeds with the wings added 1J lines long. Near to E. alpina. 



It will be observed that the flowers were unknown to the original describer, and that the " peduncles 

 and pedicels (are) very short." 



It was then described by Bentham in B.F1. iii, 237. Inter alia the fruits are 

 described as nearly sessile. 



Then Mueller figured it in " Eucalyptographia," but the plate, as regards the 

 flowering and fruiting twig, is made up of more than one plant ; in other words it is in 

 part an accidental fake. The material of this species in the Melbourne Herbarium 

 had in course of years, from Mueller's time onwards, become a good deal mixed up. 

 Recently Prof. Ewart forwarded the whole of it to me for examination. I am satisfied 

 that in the " Eucalyptographia " plate the leaves and fruits belong to the type, although 

 a peduncle is not shown and the pedicels are shown too long (see figs. 1 and 2, Plate 171 , 

 of the present work). 



The buds and flowers in the ''Eucalyptographia" plate do not belong to the 

 type. They really came from Glen of Palms, Macdonnell Range (E. Giles). 



Then come my notes on the species in Proc. Roy. Soc. N.S.W., Iii, 507 (1918), 

 from which the following notes are extracted : — 



In Ewart and Davies' "Flora of the Northern Territory," p. 306 (1917), I 

 indicated that I believe this is a valid species, and that my E. jnjrijormis Turcz.. var. 

 minor (present work, Part XVII, pages 232 and 235) should merge in it. I desire to 

 draw attention to this species, which is in some confusion, 



