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S. longifdius, as well as Cunningham's specimens so named (see Lindley) ; but those have 
no corolla, which Brown also had not seen, and his is a south coast plant" (meaning 
south coast of the continent Western to South Australia). 
Bentham's (B.F1. v, 23) reference to "App. Sturt Exped." 23 is to vol. ii, p. 86 
(1849), and is by Robert Brown himself. It merely, under Slenochilus longifdius, 
quotes the references in Mitchell's work to S. publiflorus and /?. salieinus. 
In A.DC. "Prod." XI, 714 (1849) we simply have an ampler description of 
S. longifdius. 
Then we come to the first recognition of the plant as an Eremophila, viz. : 
E.longifdia F.v.M. in Proc. Roy. .S'oc. Tas., iii, 295 (1859). This consists of a very brief 
statement, viz., "Eremophila longifdia Ferd. Mueller (Stenochilus longifoliits R. Br., 
" Prod." p. 517; S. salieinus Benth. l.c.; S. puUflorus BenthJ.c., from Spencer's Gulf, 
Lake Torrens, and the Murray River, to the deserts of Tropical Australia)." 
Then we have Bentham's full description in the following words : 
A tall erect shrub, the young shoots minutely hoary-tomentose, the older foliage nearly glabrous 
and often drying black. Leaves scattered, linear or almost linear-lanceolate, obtuse or tapering into a 
recurved point, rather thick but flat, 2 to 4 or even 5 inches long, contracted into a short petiole. Pedicels 
solitary or two together, varying in length from 2 or 3 lines to | inch, stout or slender, erect or spreading. 
Calyx-segments triangular or lanceolate, acute or acuminate, rarely 2 linos long, united at the base and 
scarcely overlapping, usually woolly-ciliate on the margins. Corolla velvety-pubescent outside, J to 1 inch 
long, the tube gibbous at the base, contracted over the ovary, the remainder much dilated and slightly 
incurved, the lobes all ovate and obtuse, the two uppermost rather smaller and the lowest often, but not 
always, more deeply separated than the others. Stamens shortly exsertcd. Ovary thick and fleshy, with 
two pairs of ovules in each cell. Fruit ovoid or globular, very succulent, with a thick hard putamen, 
completely 4-celled and not separating into pyrenes. (B.F1. v, 23.) 
Botanical Name. -Eremophila, already explained, see Part LXV, p. 212; 
longifdia, Latin, long-leaved, which is a very useful name as a rule. 
Vernacular Name. --It is often called " Emu Bush." 
Aboriginal NaillCS. " Berrigan" is an aboriginal name over a very wide area, 
but it is now a well established Australian vernacular. " Dickoo" of those of the Hay 
district, New South Wales. It is the " Kinyamurra" of the Mount Lyndhurst, South 
Australia, blacks (Max Koch). The late Dr. A. W. Howitt gave me the name of 
' Kunyamara" as in use by the aborigines of Killalpanina, Cooper's Creek, Lake Eyre 
which seems very like Mr. Koch's name, but as my dear friend Dr. Howitt' s handwriting 
was not of the same high quality as his scientific knowledge, the name should be 
confirmed. 
Synonyms. These have been already dealt with. 
Leaves. This is a useful fodder plant, and although it has been ascertained 
that the leaves of three or four members of the genus are more or less poisonous during 
some years, and for a part only of such years, I cannot certainly trace a poisoning 
case to this plant. The following statement concerning it was published by Mr. R. W. 
Peacock, of the Coolabah Experiment Farm, some years ago, and is a fair statement : 
