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Ereinophila 1 on gi folia F.v.M. 
' An Emu Bush or Kerrigan. 
(Family M YOPOR ACE^E.) 
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Botanical description. Genus Ercmophila, see Part LXV, p. 211. 
Botanical description. Species longifolia F.v.M. in Proc. Roy. Soc. Tas., iii, 295 
(1859). 
The history of the species is as follows (the first botanist to recognise it was 
Robert Brown ) : 
Stcnocliilus longifdius R. Br., Prod. 517 (1810). May be translated as follows : 
"Leaves linear-lanceolate, elongate, 3-5 inches long, entire, hooked at the apex; glabrous when 
fully grown, branchlets tomentose, stem erect. The flowers had fallen. Habit and fruit of the preceding 
species (S. glabcr)." 
S. longifolim is referred to in " Edwards' Botanical Register" (Lindley), 1839 
volume, Supplementary or Miscellaneous Notices, p. 69 (dated September, 1839). Ib 
is there given as " A Cunn. MSS." which is doubtless correct enough, and the Latin 
description is doubtless from the pen of Allan Cunningham. The author of the 
description is, however, Robert Brown. 
Lindley goes on to say, " A shrub, discovered many years ago by Mr. Allan Cunningham, in the 
interior of New Holland, and latterly again met with by Major Sir Thomas Mitchell, by whose people it 
was called ' Lemon Haws,' on account of the odour of its fleshy fruit. It forms a small bush, flowering 
in its native country in March, but here in the month of August. The leaves are long, very narrow, 
coriaceous, conspicuously marked with glandular dots and apparently smooth, until they are examined 
by a microscope, when they are seen to be covered with fine, short close-pressed hairs. The flowers are 
about an inch long, single or in pairs in the axils of the leaves, downy, and of a dull greenish-red colour, 
with the stamens a little projecting. In both this and the next the ovary is bilocular. The corolla of 
Stenochilus, although formed upon the same plan as that of other labiate flowers, differs in this, that the 
four upper lobes grow into an upper lip, and that which is usually the middle lobe of the lower lip forms by 
itself the whole lower lip, which is rolled back upon itself." 
Mitchell ("Tropical Australia," 251, 1848), says, "A dwarf shrub was found 
here" (29+h July, 1846, Lat. 22 55' 35" S., on the Belyando River, Queensland). In a 
footnote, Bentham describes it as Stenochilus salicinus, and says, " very near S. pubiflorus, 
but much whiter, the flowers smaller with the lobes much" more equal, the lower one 
much broader." 
S. pubiflorus Benth. was described in a footnote at p. 273 (under date llth 
August), and he adds" This agrees pretty well with Brown's short diagnosis of 
