Range - Setis

CCCLIII. E. xanthonema Turczaninow.
In Bull. Moscow, xx, Part I, 163 (1847).
FOLLOWING is the original description:—
Eucalyptus xanthonema ramis teretibus a basi ad inflorescentiam nudis; foliis
super flores sitis alternis anguste lineari-lanceolatis, utrinque acuminatis, viridibus,
pellucido-punctatis, subfalcatis; umbellis axillaribus 5 floris in paniculam
contractum collectis; pedunculis erectis (demum forte deflexis) compressis, petiolo
pedicellisque multo longioribus; pedicellis cupulam turbinatum aequantibus;
operculo (immaturo) conico cupulam subaequante. Filamentis rufo aurantiacis
insigne; habitus singularis. Nova Hollandia. Drum. Coll. N. 67.
A translation of the above will be found at Part XXXIV, p. 97, of the present
work. It will be observed that the type is No. 67 of Drummond's third collection.
The type is figured at Part XXXIV, Plate 140, fig. 8, and at figs 9a and 9b,
Drummond's 5th Collection, No. 187 is also figured, the two numbers forming the
co-types of E. redunca Schauer var. angustifolia Benth. As I am satisfied that it
does not belong to E. redunca, the original name of E. xanthonema should be
restored. When the amplest material is collected, the position can be reconsidered. If
it be not a distinct species, we cannot say to what species it belongs. My present
suggestion will best secure the interests of science.
Synonym
E. redunca Schauer, var. angustifolia Benth. (in part).
“Leaves linear or linear-lanceolate. E. xanthonema Turcz. in Bull. Mosc. 1847, 1,
163; W. Australia, Drummond 3rd Coll. n. 67, 5th Coll. n. 187 (Drummond's No.
187 had better be kept separate for the present); S. side of Stirling Ranges and
eastward to Phillips Ranges, Maxwell.” B.Fl. iii, 253. It has been already figured, as
stated. In the absence of complete material, I provisionally label Drummond's No.
187 E. xanthonema aff.
Range
It is confined to Western Australia so far as we know at present. No. 67 was
collected with James Drummond's 3rd Collection, which was made in a somewhat
indefinite part of the south of the then colony. I have not seen Maxwell's specimens.
which Bentham quotes under his E. redunca var. angustifolia. See Part XXXIV, p.