DESCRIPTION. 



CCXXXVI. E.fieifolia F.v.M. 



In Fragmenta ii, 85 (1860). 



Following is a translation of the original : — 



Leaves moderately petiolate, opposite, ovate-lanceolate or sub-ovate, acute, coriaceous, spreadingly 

 and very finely penniveined in a crowded manner, scarcely pellucid-punctate, straightly and faintly 

 reticulate-veined, paler on the underside, peripheral vein close to the margin, umbels terminal and paniculate, 

 pedicels quadrangular, about the same length as the calyx-tube, fruits large, truncate- or subureeolate- 

 ovate, exangular, three- or four-celled, valves deltoid, deeply included and deflexed, fertile seeds greyish 

 brown with long wings in the fore part, most of the seeds sterile, narrow and elongated. 



Bentham (B.F1. iii, 256), had his doubts as to its specific rank, and dismissed 

 it in the following words : — 



E. ficifolia, F. Muell. Fragm. ii, 85. Only known from imperfect specimens in fruit, which differ 

 in no respect from E. calophylla, except that the seeds are of a pale colour and the testa expanded at one 

 end, or round one side into a broad, variously-shaped wing. Further specimens may prove these differences 

 not to be constant. 



West Australia. Broke's Inlet, " Black-butt," Maxwell. From the Hay, Gordon and Tone Rivers 

 in the same neighbourhood are flowering specimens undistinguishable from E. calophylla, which may 

 possibly belong to this species. 



It was then more fully described, and also illustrated, by Mueller in the 

 " Eucalyptographia." Some of his remarks on the colour of the filaments are referred 

 to below. 



SUPPOSED VARIETY. 



E. ficifolia F.v.M. var. Gidlfoylei Bailey, in Proc. Roy. Soc. Q.. x, p. 17 (1894). 



This is identical with E. calophylla R.Br. var. rosea (Hort.) Maiden, see below, 

 p. 75. 



RANGE. 



The type came from Broken Inlet, " near the coast of the estuary, Broken Inlet, 

 south West Australia," Maxwell. I would suggest that this is a slip of the pen or a 

 limited local name for Brookes' Inlet, between Irwin Inlet and D'Entrecasteaux Point 

 {i.e., approaching Cape Leeuwin). 



