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Disc forming a broad conical truncate band around the 

 ovary, which becomes less truncate as the fruit develops. 

 In its early stages it resembles a hat with a depressed 

 crown. 



Fruits conoid-globose, about 12 mm. in diameter, the 

 rim very broad, truncate-conoid, at length almost conical, 

 the capsule not depressed, the valves slightly exsert. 



Named in honour of Alfred J. Ewart, D.Sc, Professor of 

 Botany and Vegetable Physiology in the University of 

 Melbourne, well known for his researches on the Australian 

 flora. 



Type, Pindar, W.A. (J.H.M., October 1909). 



Range. 



This is a species of dry country, mainly recorded, so far, 

 from Western Australia, but, by the Elder Expedition, found 

 first in South Australia and subsequently in the Western 

 State. 



Western Australia, — " Many-stemmed, 10 - 15 or 20 feet. 

 Tough wood. Peculiar bark, falling off in narrow longi- 

 tudinal pieces, giving it a striped appearance. The indur- 

 ated stems are three inches in diameter. Several clumps 

 seen. Very yellow buds, with hemispherical operculum, 

 and absolutely no mucro. Operculum, which is distinctly 

 smaller than the calyx, affording one of the best examples 

 I remember of the 'egg-in-egg-cup' bud. Leaves greenish 

 yellow, dull coloured. The material I have is figured at 

 11, Plate 74." The above statement will be found at p. 

 225, Part xvii, O.R, (66J mile post, Pindar, Murchison Line 

 J. H. M. Oct. 1909). 



"Bark decorticating from one foot from the ground. 

 Mallee, branching from the ground to a height of fifteen 

 feet and up to six inches in diameter. The bark at base 

 grey, rough, decorticating in rolled up grey strips leaving 

 the stem, which is red in colour, with a peculiar streaked 



H— September 3, 1919. 



