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Leaves bright-green and shining ; fruit truncate-ovate. 



Shrubby or somewhat arborescent ; bark smooth ; leaves 

 from broadish- to ovate-lanceolar, almost straight and 

 equilateral, their secondary venules prominent and mode- 

 rately spreading ; flowers quite small ; lid hemispheric, 

 about half as long as the calyx-tube ; anthers minute, 

 nearly globular ; fruit small, its border rather depressed ; 

 valves short, quite enclosed. E. Behriaiia. 



1107. Valves of the fruit upwards exceedingly narrow. 



Shrubby or somewhat arborescent ; leaves from narrow- to 

 almost elliptic-lanceolar, unilaterally slightly curved, 

 equally light-green on both sides, their secondary venules 

 subtle, much spreading ; umbels on rather slender but 

 somewhat compressed stalks ; lid semiovate-conical, often 

 narrowly attenuated ; anthers broadish-ovate or almost 

 globular ; fruit truncate-ovate, neither large nor streaked, 

 its border compressed ; valves much pointed, con- 

 spicuously exserted. One of the " Mallees." 



E. oleosa. 



Valves of the fruit comparatively broad ... ... 1108 



1108. Calyx-lid smooth, conical or hemispheric ... ... 1109 



Calyx-lid verrucular-rough, crown-shaped ... ... 1120 



1109. Leaves equally green on both sides ... ... ... 1110 



Leaves evidently paler beneath ... ... ... 1118 



1110. Valves of the fruit enclosed or slightly exserted ... 1111 

 Valves of the fruit prominently exserted ... ... 1114 



1111. Stalklets elongated. 



Finally tall ; bark persistent, rough, somewhat fibrous ; 

 leaves from narrow- to elongate-lanceolar, unilaterally 

 somewhat curved, their lateral venules numerous, very 

 thin and regularly much spreading ; umbels two- to four- 

 flowered, on long slender stalks ; flowers large ; calyx at 

 first pale, its lid broad-conical and pointed ; fruit large, 

 bellshaped-semiovate, angular, its border ascendingly 

 concave. " Woolly Butt. " E. longifolia. 



Stalklets abbreviated ... 1112 



