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DESCRIPTION, 



CCXLII. E. Stowardi Maiden. 



In Journ. Roy. Soc. N.S.W., li, 457 (1917). 



Following is the original description : — 



Mallee vocatus ad 10' altus. Foliis maturis coriaceis, nitentibus, lanceolatis, paullo falcatis, ca. 

 11 cm. longis, 3 cm. latis maxima latitudine, longis petiolis 2-3 cm. Floribus teretibus pedunculis, 

 pedicellis ad 5 cm. Alabastris magnis, clavatis, calyce tubo opercido minus dimidio aequante, ca. 

 1-5 cm. longo, 5-costis prominentibus in pedicellem angustatis, costis operculi longi paullo angustati obtusi 

 numerosioribus minore profundis. Fructibus magnis conoideis, 3-5 costis prominentibus, margins . 

 truncata planata lata, orificio parvo. 



" A sbrubby Mallee " with smooth bark. 



Juvenile leaves not seen in their earliest stages, but broader, and with the intramargir.al vein 

 more remote from the edge than in the mature ones. 



Mature leaves coriaceous, shining, of similar colour on both sides, covered with fine black dots, 

 with long petioles (say 2-3 cm.) lanceolate, asymmetrical, slightly falcate, tapering gradually to an apex 

 consisting of a soft point, about 11 cm. (say 4 J- inches) long and 3 cm. broad in its widest part. 



Flowers with a terete peduncle of 2-2-5 cm., about seven in the head, with flattened pedicels up 

 to -5 cm. The buds large, clavate.the calyx-tube longer than a third of the operculum, about 1-5 cm. 

 long, with five prominent ribs tapering into the pedicel, the long slightly tapering blunt operculum with 

 more numerous, shallower ribs than those of the calyx-tube. 



Filaments cream-coloured, sometimes with a purplish flush at the base, tapering trigonous or 

 tetragonous, ribbed, with numerous glands, anthers large with parallel cells and large gland at back. 



Fruits conoid, with three to five more prominent ribs and a number of intermediate shallower ones, 

 with a truncate, flattish, slightly rounded, broad rim, with a small orifice; tips of the valves sunk or 

 scarcely flush with the orifice. 



Kwelkan, on the Northam-Merriden line, a few miles north of Kellerberrin, Western Australia. 

 (Dr. Frederick Stoward, Government Botanist and Plant Pathologist, No. 150, April, May, 1917.) 

 The type. 



The material is scanty and it would appear that the following specimen also belongs to this species 

 As this material is also sparse, it is desirable to describe it : — 



A shrub or " small tree, the highest I have seen does not excee'l 10 feet." Bark of a smooth, dull 

 grey. Branchlets round, more or less glaucous, as also the petioles, young leaves and fruits, the whole 

 plant perhaps largely glaucous at certain seasons. 



Juvenile leaves not seen. 



Mature leaves very thick, coriaceous, dull to shiny, of an olive green, and the same colour on 

 both sides, lanceolate to ovate, petiolate, the base ending rather abruptly in a petiole of 2 cm., the lanceolate 

 leaves mostly tapering into a fine point, about 10 cm. (4 inches) long, or shorter, and about 2-5 cm. (H inch) 

 broad, both surfaces entirely covered with innumerable fine black dots, the midrib and secondary veins 

 moderately prominent, the secondary veins spreading and roughly parallel, making an angle of about 

 45° with the roidiib, the intramarginal vein distinctly removed from the edge. 



