314 J. H. MAIDEN. 



matura petiolata, glauca utrinque aeque viridia, crassa, obovata 

 ad fere spathulata, aliquando emarginata, margine lata et incras- 

 sata, venis non prominulis, patentibus. Petioli -5-1 cm longi. 

 Folia 2-4 cm. longa et 1*5 - 2*5 cm. lata. Alabastri gracile 

 pedunculo 1 cm. longo, pedicellos dimidio aequilongos ferente. 

 Cupula hemisphserica. Operculum hemisphserico-conoideum. 

 Antherae in loculamentis parallelis dehiscentes, filamentis basi 

 adherentibus, apice glandula. Fructus pedunculati, pedicellati, 

 fere hemisphserici, plerumque circiter 9 cm. diametro. Margo 

 latissima planaque, valvarum apicibis exsertis. Valvae plerumque 

 4. 



Habitat Coolgardie, Western Australia. 



Species ad E. leptopoda?n vergit sed incerte ponatur. 



A shrub six or ten feet high. The branchlets round and 

 the bark deciduous. 



Juvenile leaves. — Yellowish-green, slightly or wholly 

 glaucous, shortly petiolate nearly circular or with a blunt 

 apex, up to 3 cm. in diameter as seen, venation moderately 

 prominent, spreading, the lateral veins roughly parallel, 

 intramarginal vein scarcely evident. 



Mature leaves. — Petiolate, glaucous, equally green on 

 both sides, thick, obovate to almost spathulate, sometimes 

 emarginate, venation hardly visible, spreading, with the 

 intramarginal vein distinctly removed from the edge, the 

 thickened margin remarkably broad, pale-coloured. Petioles 

 *5 to 1 cm. Leaves 2 — 4 cm. long, and 1*5 - 2*5 cm. broad. 



Flowers. — Buds on a slender peduncle of 1 cm. supporting 

 slender pedicels of half that length. Calyx tube hemi- 

 spherical, operculum hemispheric-conoid. 



The anthers open widely in quite lateral parallel slits, 

 filament attached at base, a small gland at the top. It 

 flowered on September 16th, 1900, and was observed to 

 flower each year during the same month. 



