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Pennately or pinnately, or feathery, spreading. 



E. diversicolor. E. rostrata. 



E. Howittiana. E. Todtiana. 



E. maculata. E. trachyphloia. 



E. marginata. E. tereticornis. 



E. microtheca. E. tetragona. 



E. miniata. E. viminalis. 



E. peltata. 



Closely pennate. 



E. eximia. 



Pennate veined. 

 E. tesselaris. 



Closely parallel, very spreading. 

 E. calophylla. 



Almost parallel and moderately spreading. 

 E. erebra. 



Considerably spreading, but neither crowded nor almost transverse. 



E. Stuartiana. 



Very divergent or almost horizontally spreading. 

 E. Foelscheana. 



Venation not stated. 



E. pachyphylla. 

 E. Raveretiana. 

 E. tetraptera. 



The exceptions, out of a hundred, to the use of " spreading " are the use oi 

 the terms " divergent " (which is really the same as " spreading ") for decipiens ; 

 " closely pennate " for eximia; " more longitudinal than transverse " for hcemastoma ; 

 " diverging at a very acute angle " for hemiphloia; " almost longitudinal " for 

 pauciflora (eoriacea) and stellulata; "usually more erect than transverse" for 

 piperita, Sieberiana; "ascending in an acute angle" for salubris ; "pennate 

 veined " for tesselaris, amount to say 10 per cent, in all. As regards the 10 per cent., 

 one must not bind Bentham or Mueller to absolute uniformity of treatment in such 

 a protean genus, and doubtless the descriptions were written at different times. 

 Mueller practically uses the term " spreading " as generic. 



But while he, in describing the secondary or lateral veins, almost invariably 

 uses the word " spreading," it apparently was an English word with which he was 

 not familiar. For example, consider its use in connection with E. corymbosa, 

 " almost transversely spreading " ; the word is redundant ; compare his plate. 



