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No. 248. 
Eremophila Mitckelli F.V.M. 
The Buddah. . : . 
(Family MYOPORACE^E.) 
Botanical description. Genus, Eremophila Robert Brown, Prodromus, 518 (1810). 
Calyx divided to the base into five segments or rarely 5-lobed, often but not always enlarged 
after flowering. 
Corolla-tube usually broad from the base or constricted above the ovary, more or less elongated 
and incurved, very rarely with the cylindrical base of Pholidia, the limb oblique or 2-lipped, 
5-lobed. 
Stamens 4, didynamous, often cxserted. 
Ovary 2-celled, with two or three superposed pairs of ovules in each cell, of which, however, the 
lower pairs remain usually unfecundated, or in a very few species only one pair in each cell 
at the time of flowering. 
Style filiform. 
Fruit, where known, a dry or succulent drupe, the putamcns separating four 1-seeded pyrenes, 
or 4-celled with one seed in each cell, or fewer cells and seeds by abortion. 
Shrubs. 
Leaves alternate or scattered. 
Floioers solitary, or in a few species several together in the axils, usually pedicellate, without 
bracts. (B.F1. v, 15.) 
Botanical description. Species, MitcMli Bentham, in Mitchell's " Tropical Aus- 
tralia," p. 31 (1848). 
This species was described by Bentham as a footnote to p. 31 of Mitchell's 
"Journal . . . Tropical Australia" (1848). Mitchell says, under date 9th January 
(1846), " We here observed, for the first time, a fine new Eremophila, with white flowers, 
forming a tree 15 feet high." 
Bentham' s description is in Latin, which may be translated : 
E. Milchelli (Benth. MS.), glabrous, rather viscid, leaves alternate, linear, smooth, corolla white, 
glabrous on the outer side, the opening large, the four superior lobes about the same size, the lowest one 
larger and blunted, stamens included. 
Mitchell was then on the Bogan, New South Wales, about 26 miles south of 
Nynigan (Nyngan), New South Wales, which is, therefore, the type locality for the 
species. A portion of the type is before me as I write, and it bears the inscription in 
Sir Thomas Mitchell's handwriting, " Jan. 6, 1846. Mooda on the Bogan, height 15 feet. 
Flowers white." 
