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of the deosa group, but less broad at the base than that of typical 

 oleosa. Pistil long, as long or longer than the stamens, stigma not 

 dilated. — Fruits urceolate, furrowed longitudinally but irregularly, much 

 constricted at the orifice and tapering gradually to a rather short pedi- 

 cel, of greatest diameter midway between the orifice and the pedicel, 

 1 cm in length with a diameter of 75 cm, the valves well sunk within 

 the capsule or the ends of the slender tips of the same nearly appro- 

 aching the orifice, rim narrow and furrowed. — Its closest affinity 

 appears to be to E. oleosa P. v. M., and to the var. glauca described in 

 this paper, but the fruit renders it sufficiently different from any other 

 form of E. oleosa. — Western Australia: Esperance, Lindley, 

 L, Cowen, January, 1902. Desmond, near Ravensthorpe, J. H. Maiden, 

 November, 1909, apparently not abundant. 



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