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No. 256. 

Eremophila maculata F.v.M. 
A Wild Fuchsia. 
(Family MYOPORACEyE.) 
liotaiiiral description. Genus Eremophila, see Part LXV, p. 211. 
Botanical description. Species maculata F.v.M. in Proc. Roy. Soc. Tas. 297 (1859). 
According to Bentham (B.F1. v, 29), who gives the synonymy, the first reference 
to the plant is as 
(a) Stenochilus maculatus Ker., the "Spotted flowered Stenochilus," inBot.Reg., 
t. 647 (1822). 
Here we have a charming coloured drawing, most fully described, both in Latin 
and English. It was drawn at the Nursery of M^srs. CDlvill, King's-road (Chelsea) 
London, and " originally observed, we are told, on a late expedition beyond the Colony 
in New South Wales." This would refer to one of Allan Cunningham's collecting trips, 
probably the celebrated pioneer one in 1817, as recorded in Oxley's " Journals of Two 
Expeditions into the Interior of New South Wales" (1823). 
Then we have, in historical succession : 
(6) Stenochilus racemosus A.DC. Prod XI, 715 (1847). Here we have the 
description, together with a new variety ochroleucus , based on Allan 
Cunningham's S. ochrdeucus, collected by him in the Lachlan River district 
in 1836, the name being in MSS. 
(c) Stenochilus racemosus Endlicher, Nov. Stirp., Dec. 50. This was probably 
published in the year 1839; I have not seen it. 
(d) Bentham, in Mitchell's Tropical Australia, p. 221 (1848), says, " I observed 
a new species of Stenochilus with large tubular flowers : S. curvipes 
(Benth. MS.). 
Following is a translation of the description : 
" Glabrous, leaves lanceolate, entire, narrowed at the base into the petiole, pedicels recurved, 
calycine leaflets broad, acuminate, the acute segments of the ventricosc glabrous corolla having the lower 
one free bjlow the middle." 
Then he adds, in English, " Flowers large and thick on recurved pedicels, 4-6 lines long. Calycine 
leaves broader than in all the other species." 
