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J. H. MAIDEN. 



Mature leaves shortly petiolate, lanceolate, acuminate, 

 slightly falcate, not large, usually about 10 or 11 cm. long, 

 and up to 2 cm. broad, venation inconspicuous, the fine 

 veins roughly parallel and making an angle of about 45° 

 with the midrib, intramarginal vein hardly removed from 

 the edge. 



Peduncles axillary or lateral, terete, about 1*5 cm. long, 

 bearing usually 4 to 6 moderately large flowers on terete 

 pedicels up to 1 cm. long. Buds shiny. 



Calyx-tube nearly hemispherical, about 1 cm. in diameter, 

 with two slightly raised ridges separated by 180°; tapering 

 rather abruptly into the pedicel. 



Operculum very thick, hemispherical or terminating in 

 a slight but sharp point when nearly ripe. When less ripe, 

 slightly broader than the calyx-tube and without a point. 



Stamens about 9 mm. long, inflected in the bud, anthers 

 large, opening widely in parallel slits. Gland long, faintly 

 visible at the back. Filament at the base. The anthers 

 belong to the Platyantherse group. 



Disc broadish, oblique, forming a prominent ring round 

 the ovary, of which the obtusely conical centre protrudes 

 slightly above the disc at the time of flowering. 



Fruit hemispherical, about 1 cm. in diameter, the rim 

 broad, slightly convex, the capsule not sunk, the valves 

 conspicuously exsert. 



Type from Beenup, W.A. (0. E. Lane-Poole, No. 465). 



Named in honour of Charles E. Lane-Poole, Conservator 

 of Forests of Western Australia, who collected this species, 

 and who has done much to promote the study of this genus 

 in his State. 



Range. 



It is confined to Western Australia, and, so far as is 

 known at present, to a strip of coast-land, more or less 



