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J. H. MAIDEN. 



"A Mallee-like plant of 4 - 1 feet growing in masses. Much 

 resembles E. striata of the Blue Mountains in its mode of growth. 

 Stems dark grey, with patches of lighter bark. Becomes ribbony 

 at certain periods. Generally one inch in diameter and never 

 more than two." (J. L. Boorman). 



Juvenile leaves (seen almost but not quite opposite), linear- 

 lanceolate, very similar to the mature leaves, the stems glandular. 



Mature leaves linear-lanceolate straight, or slightly falcate, 

 acuminate, and often with a hooked point, 7 5 cm. to 1 dm. (say 

 3 to 4 inches) long, and 6-7 mm. broad, thick and shining, the 

 midrib alone visible, the margins uniformly glandular, giving them 

 almost the appearance of being serrulate. Uniformly and copiously 

 dotted with oil-glands on the upper surface, the more prominent 

 of which become black points as age proceeds. 



Peduncles about *5 cm. long, slightly angular or terete, each 

 with 4 to 8 shortly pedicellate flowers. 



Buds clavate, calyx-tube about 3 mm. in diameter, operculum 

 hemispherical-conoid, about half the length of the calyx- tube. 

 Stamens inflected in the bud, filaments nearly white, anthers 

 reniform. 



Fruits cylindroid or ovoid-oblong, truncate, not contracted at 

 the orifice, about 5 mm. in diameter, the rim narrow and sloping 

 inwards, the capsule deeply sunk. 



Type Barren Mountain (Henry Deane), in National 

 Herbarium, Sydney. 



Range. 

 Confined to the north-eastern part of New South Wales 

 so far as we know at present. " From the summit of the 

 Barren Mountain, on the range dividing the Bellinger and 

 Clarence Rivers, 45 miles from the coast, and 4,500 feet 

 above the sea." (Henry Deane, 1901). " Grows facing a 

 northerly aspect. This mountain is in the Dorrigo and 

 Guy Fawkes district." (J. L. Boorman, 1913). 



