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(e) R. Br., App. Sturt Exped., 22 (not 23). This is p. 86 of Vol. II of Captain 
Sturt's work, published in 1849. 
Here Robert Brown, under Stenochilus maculatus, quotes Ker, and also Allan 
Cunningham's MSS. 1847 (? 1817. J.H.M.). 
He adds that S. curvipes Benth. is a variety of S. macidata, with the point of 
the sepals a little shorter. 
He goes on to say that while A. De Candolle refers S. ochroleucus A Cunn. (MSS 
1817) as a variety of S. maculatus, " it is, however, very distinct, having a short erect 
peduncle like that of S. glaber, to which it is much more nearly related, differing chiefly 
in its being slightly pubescent." 
Following is all we find at the place cited Proc. Roy. Soc. Tas., 297 (1859) : 
" Eremophila mac^^lata F.v.M., Stenochilus maculatus Ker, Bet. Reg., 647. 
S. curvipes Benth., in Mitch. Trop.Austr., p. 221. Gulf of Carpentaria, Eastern, tropical 
and extra-tropical Australia, Australia Felix, Central and South Australia." 
The full description by Bentham is : 
A tall shrub, with rigid divaricate branches, more or less hoary-tomentose or pubescent, the adult 
foliage usually glabrous. Leaves mostly lanceolate, varying, however, from elliptical-oblong to linear, 
acute or obtuse, entire, contracted into a petiole, rarely above one inch long, flat and green on both sides 
or hairy when young. Pedicels solitary, often above inch long, very spreading or reflexed but turned 
up again under the flowers. Calyx-segments much imbricate and ovate at the base, acuminate, 2 to 3 
lines long or more. Corolla glabrous outside, " red, more or less variegated with yellow or quite yellow," 
1 inch long or more, the broad tube constricted above the ovary, the upper part slightly incurved and not 
much dilated, the four upper lobes short and acute, the lowest one narrow, recurved, separated to below 
the middle of the corolla. Stamens usually but perhaps not always exscrted. Ovary glabrous, with 
two or three pairs of ovules to each cell. Fruit ovoid-globular, shortly acuminate, above \ inch diameter, 
very succulent, with a hard bony putamen, completely 2-celled and less perfectly 4-celled. Seeds 
small, without so much albumen as in some species. (B.F1. v, 30.) 
Botanical Name. Eremophila, already explained, Part LXV, p. 212; 
maculata, spotted, on account of the blotched markings of the corolla. 
Vernacular Name. It often goes by the name of " Wild Fuchsia" on account 
of a fancied resemblance of the flowers to those of the common Fuchsia. 
Aboriginal Name. ' Wedgerra" of those of Hungerford, beyond the Darling, 
N.S.W.; " Tchuldani" of those of Cooper's Creek, near Lake Eyre (A. W. Howitt); 
" Pitula" of the aborigines; " Pitula bumbu" is the flower, " Kati" is the seed (fruit). 
Lake Eyre (Prof. W. Baldwin Spencer). 
Synonyms. The synonyms or reputed synonyms of this species have already 
been referred to. 
Leaves. There are a good many reports by drovers and stockowners on the 
effect of the leaves on stock. There is no doubt now that they may contain a cyano- 
genetic glucoside in certain seasons, and so may be poisonous to stock, but the plain 
man is puzzled in the case of all part-time poison plants, and hence he sometimes denies 
