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Eremophila Sturtii R.Br. 
Turpentine Bush. 
(Family MYOPORACEyE.) 
Botanical description. Genus, Eremoplrila Robert Brown. (See p. 211.) 
Botanical description. Species, Sturtii R. Brown, in Appendix to Sturt's 
' Narrative of an Expedition to Central Australia," ii, 85 (1849). 
In " Narrative of an Expedition into Central Australia " we have the original 
description of E. Sturtii, of which the following is a translation : 
Leaves alternate ; sepals shortly tinguiculate, without a gland ; stamens inrluded. To this section 
belongs Eremophila Mitelielli Be nth. 
Eremophila (Sturtii), pubescent, leaves narrow linear, apex recurved; corolla pubescent on the outer 
Bide, limbus bearded on the inner side, stamens included. 
A shrub a fathom high. Calyx 5-partito. equal; sepals obovate-oblong, narrower at the base 
but scarcely narrowed into a claw, membranaceous, uninerved, veined Corolla bilabiate, tube broad, 
straight, lips obtuse, pubescent on the outer side, on the. inner (lower) bearded. Upper lip tripartite; 
middle lobe bifid (composed of two); the segments all obtuse ; the lower obcordate, bilobed, lobes rounded, 
more densely bearded. Stamens 4, didynamous, entirely included. Filaments glabrous. Anthers reniform, 
cells confluent at the base. Ovary densely woolly. Style glabrous. Stigma undivided, hardly thicker 
at the apex of the style. 
Oba. Species nearest E. MitcJietti Benth., in Mitchell's " Tropical Australia," p. 31. 
In Mueller's " Report on the plants collected during Mr. Babbage's Expedition 
into the north-western interior of South Australia in 1858" (Viet. Parl. paper, 1858), 
p. 17, we have : 
Eremophila Sturtii R.Br. in Sturt's Central Australia, ii, Append, p. 85. 
Viscous; branchlets thin and leaves glabrous, not tubercled; leaves narrow-linear, somewhat 
channelled, alternate with a recurved acumen; pedicels about as long as the calyx; sepals membranous, 
glabrous, blunt ; the terminal ovate, the others oblong, of more than half the length of the corolla-tube ; 
the latter white, outside slightly downy; upper lip with two short blunt lobes ; lateral lobes of the 
lower lip semi-ovate ; tfte middle lobe longer obcordate or ouate above densely looolly-tomenlose, stamens not 
exserted ; ovary woolly. 
On the rivers Murray and Darling. Rev. Mr. Goodwin, Mr. Dallachy. 
Leaves 1-1 inches long, J-l line broad, narrower towards the base. Calyx 2-3 lines, corolla 4-6 
lines long. 
In Proc. Roy. Soc. Tas. iii, 294 (1859) the sole remark by Mueller is : 
Eremophila Sturtii R.Br. in Sturt's Central Austral., App. p. 85. Barrier and Grey Ranges, Murray 
River, Darling River. Mr. Dallachy and Rev. Thos. H. Goodwin. 
