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DESCRIPTION. 



LXXXYI. E. grossa, F.v.M. 



In Eentham's Flora Australiensis, iii, 232. 



The description is given at Part IV, p. 104, of this work, where I reduced it 

 to a variety of E. incrassata, Labill. After further consideration, I think it 

 desirable to consider it as a species, at all events until such time as we know more 

 about a number of closely related congeners 



It is figured on Plate 18, Part IV, from a cultivated specimen, but Professor 

 Ewart having lent me a portion of the type which had disappeared from the 

 Melbourne Herbarium for a period, I figure it on Plate 72. 



We still want the juvenile foliage and ripe fruits from uncultivated 

 specimens. 



SYNONYMS. 



1. E. paehypoda, F.v.M. 



For a description arid other particulars, see Part IV, p. 104, of this work. 



2. E. incrassata, Labill., var. grossa, Maiden [loc. ciL). 



RANGE. 



It has only been found in Western Australia. Bentham gives the locality, 

 " Phillip River and its tributaries (Maxwell)." 



Diels and Pritzel say of it : — 



Frutex 1-3 m. alt., ramis late divaricatis, foliis liete viridibus, floribus ochroleucis prwditus 

 orientem versus monies Eraser's Range appropinquare videtur. 



In distr. Coolgardie nieridionali a Grasspatch septentrionem versus in fruticetis lutoso-arcnosis 

 fl. ra. Nov. (D. 5,285). Engler's Jahrb., xxxv, U\ (1905). 



This statement brings the range somewhat to the north-east of the former 

 one. Grass Patch is between Esperance and Norseman. 



AFFINITY. 



With E. incrassata, Labill. 

 These species are certainly closely related, as already observed. 

 When we know more about other species belonging to the same series, 

 we may return to the subject. 



