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inflected in the bud ; anthers broadly oblong or almost ovate, witli distinctly parallel cells dehiscing 

 longitudinally ; ovary conical ; style stout, shorter than the stamens ; fruit broadly obovate, obscurely 

 angled, not constricted at the summit, the rim rather thick and flat ; capsule scarcely sunk ; valves four, 

 deltoid and much protruding ; seeds angular, the sterile ones small and narrow. 



Height, 30 feet, the trimk and limbs crooked, the former 10 feet; diameter IJ feet. Baik smooth, 

 white and persistent. Timber reddish, tough and moderately hard. Leaves 4-6 inches long, 2|-3 inches 

 broad. Peduncles usually ^ inch long; calyx-tube 4 lines long. Stamens about 3 lines, the filaments 

 pale-yellow. Fruit 5 lines long, 4 lines diameter. Seeds black. 



In sandy soil overlying sandstone and quartzite. Summits of Mts. Broome. Leake, Eason and 

 Bold Bluff. (W.V.F.) 



Occasionally the leaves are quite connate and the calyces concrete. Affinity- — E. pidverulenta Sims^. 



RANGE. 



So far as we know at present, it is confined to tropical Western Australia. 



Summits of Mounts Broome, May ; Leake, July ; Eason, September, 1905 ; 

 and Bold Blufi, all Lady Forrest and King Leopold Eanges, Kimberley, north West 

 Australia (W. V. Fitzgerald). Collected during the Kimberley Survey Expedition. 



AFFINITIES. : 



1. With E. perfoliata R.Br. 



Both have thick perfoliate leaves which generally resemble each other, but those 

 of E. perjoliata are longer. The flowers and inflorescence are difEerent, while the very 

 large fruits which belong to the section Corymbosae, and have sunk valves, are totally 

 difierent. 



2. With E. alba Reinw. 



The fruits have something in common and also the juvenile leaves, which are, 

 however, petiolate in E. alba. The buds are very difierent. The mature leaves of 

 E. alba are never so lanceolate as those of E. Mooreana. E. alba is a glabrous, soft, 

 large Gum of moist flats, E. Mooreana is a crooked glaucous tree of mountain tops. 

 (I have never seen the trees, and the above suggestions as to affinities were made as the 

 result of examination of sujch herbarium material as was available to me in 1913.) 



