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Foliorum lamina saepissime 130-100 cm. long, summum vix totidem lat. ; petioli crassiusculi, late 

 canaliculati, sursum anguste alaii. 40-4-5 cm. long. Pedunculi circa 0-6 cm. long., 0-35 cm. diam. 

 Alabastra 1-2 cm. diam. Calycis tubis 0-7 cm. long., summum 1-2 cm. lat., una cum operculo nitens et 

 ele<*anter rngatns. Operculum 0--3 cm. long., 10 cm. diam. Stamina 1-2 cm. long, filamenta in sicco 

 aurantiaca; antheraOl cm. long. Capsula. . . . 



E. plalijphyUa R.Br, and E. alba Reinw. The leaves are almost exactly those of the former, but 

 in either case the buds and opercula are much smaller than those of E. pastorates and differently shaped. 

 At the British Museum there is a specimen, sent under the name of " E. alba Reinw.," by Baron Mueller, 

 which has large flowers with a broad hemispherical very obtuse operculum, almost exactly like that of 

 E. pasloralis. This is altogether unlike typical E. alb<i Reinw., and may perhaps be a small-leaved form 

 of the species described above. (Jov But. xl. 27 [1902].) 



Above (page 91) I have expressed the opinion that this is not sufficiently different 

 ironi E. alba. It is figured at figs. 7-9. Plate 105. 



RANGE. 



The tvpe conies from Timor. Beyond Australia it occurs also in Java and Papua, 

 but its western limit, in Malaysia is unknown. It is for the most part tropical, and 

 while on the mainland of Australia it extends over the north, from Queensland to the 

 Kimberleys and North-western Australia generally, it descends a little south in 

 Queensland, at least as far as Gladstone. It prefers moist grassy valleys, but is not 

 exclusively confined to such areas. 



Following are some specimens from extra-Australian localities : — 



Timor. Specimen in fruit from Java. Also cultivated in the Botanic Garden, 

 Buitenzorg. Island of Flores (Botanic Garden, Buitenzorg). Port Moresby, Papua 

 (Prof. W. Baldwin Spencer, W. S. Campbell). 



North- Westers Australia. 



Calder Paver; near junction of Lennard and Barker Rivers; Isdell River, near 

 Mount Barnett Homestead (W. V. Fitzgerald). 



Northern Territory. 



Paul Foelsche. Port Darwin. Nearly globular buds (see fig. Go, Plate 105). 



1. Young leaf, 12 inches long (Tenison- Woods). 



Adelaide River, Northern Territory (Rev. T. S. Lea). Tvpe of E. pastoralis 

 S. le M. Moore, and communicated by the Keeper of Botany, British Museum, London. 

 (See figs. S and 9, Plate 105.) 



Pine Creek Railway (E. J. Dunn). Islands of the Gulf of Carpentaria (~R, Brown, 

 quoted in BSl.m. 243). 



