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ovary bi-celled as vvell as the style glabrous; drupe one-seeded or rarely two-seeded, small, globular or 
ovate-globular; cotyledons arcuate. 
In the forest-gullies of Wilson’s Promontory and in wooded ranges from the Tambo River to the 
eastern boundary of Gipps Land; not rare in East Australia, extending there to the Blue Mountains, to 
New England and to Moreton Bay. 
A tree usually of small size, attaining, however, in favorable localities, for instance in the damp glens 
of Sealers’ Cove, a height of 00 feet. Branchlets almost cylindrical, somewhat glutinous at the apex. Stipules 
linear-subulate, about 1 line long, deciduous. Petioles J-l inch long. Leaves coriaceous, usually from 2-4 
inches long and from f-lj inch broad, less vividly green and less shining beneath than above, and there 
along the nerves and veins very slightly downy, serrulated by minute callous teeth. Racemes on rather 
short peduncles, axillary, solitary, by the fall of the leaves lateral, sometimes with few sometimes with many 
dowel’s. Rachis f-3 inches long, somewhat glutinous. Pedicels stout, when flower-bearing 1-3 lines long-, 
when fruit-bearing 3-5 lines long, furnished with three approximated viscous minute lanceolate-subulate 
bracteoles, of which the middle one is the longest. Sepals 5 rarely 6, narrow-semilanceolate, about 3 lines 
long, inside prominently one-ridged. Petals not much longer than the sepals, divided to about one-third of 
their length into a few long-fringed lobes, cuneate towards the often red-colored base, broader than the sepals. 
Outer filaments very short; inner ones attaining partially the length of § line, all short-hairy. Anthers pale- 
fulvous, varying*in length between § and Ij line, clothed with exceedingly short downs; their outer terminal 
valve armed with a lightly curved puberulous bristle, which measures only about line. Pollen-grains 
very minute, pale, smooth, oval, with very blunt extremities and longitudinal fissures. Style subulate, 1-2 
lines long. Stigma very minute. Hypogynous ring yellowish, glabrous. Several ovules in each cell of the 
ovary. Drupes beautifully blue, shining, 4-5 lines long, sometimes yellowish-dotted. Pulp scanty, brownish, 
granular, of astringent, acidulous taste. Putamen spheeroid. Seeds about 2 lines long, when solitary in 
the putamen renate-pearshaped, resembling those of certain salsolaceous genera; their bend so close as to 
conceal the more or less deep sinus; the seeds wdien two in each putamen more plane-convex and less turned. 
Testa thin, brittle, shining-brown, smooth. Embryo surrounded by oily-fleshy albumen. Cotyledons about 
3 lines long, very flat, oblique- and narrow-oblong. Radicle cylindrical, varying in length from J-l line, 
much narrower than the cotyledons. 
Specimens of an Illawarra El^ocarpus with more sharply and deeply serrated leaves of fully 8 inches 
length, of which tree flowers and fruit remain unknown, appear to belong to this species. Cattle and sheep 
are fond of the leaves of E. cyaneus. Our plant comes perhaps nearest to the East Australian E. obovatus 
(Don, Gen. Syst. i. 559, non Arn.), which is identical with E. parvifloms (Acli. Rich. Yoy. l’Astrolabe 
Botaniq. 67, t. 24) and very similar to the equally small-flowered E. Hookeri (Raoul, Choix de Plantes de la 
Nouv. Zelande, 26, t. 25). E. obovatus differs from E. cyaneus chiefly in less densely net-veined and more 
remotely crenulated leaves, in smaller flowers with less dissected petals and in awnless anthers. 
Blaeocarpus bolopetalus, F M. Fragm . Fliytogr . Austr. ii. 143. 
Branchlets woolly-tomentose; leaves short-stalked, obovate- rarely long-lanceolate, acute or acuminate, 
repand-serrate, copiously veined, above glabrous, beneath velvet-liairy and pale fulvous; racemes brownisli- 
tomentose , bracteoles large; flowers bisexual; sepals acute, little shorter than the pedicels; petals glabrous , 
undivided , in front slightly crenulated; stamens twice or thrice as numerous as the petals, slightly downy; 
anthers oblong, awnless, opening only at the short-bearded apex; their terminal valves almost of equal 
length; ovary two-celled, as well as the lower portion of the style silky-downy ; drupe one-seeded or rarefy 
two-seeded, subovate. 
In Eastern Gipps Land, along valleys of the Nungatta Mountains, at an elevation from 2000-4000 
feet; Weatherhead, F. M.; also on the Terra River, between the Genoa and Snowy River, J. Alexander; 
not yet found elsewhere. 
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