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The bracts and the bracteoles alternate, and they each show six segments. 

 Each segment appears to be of equal size, and texture, but, as already suggested, there 

 is an apparent difference in the size and texture of bracts and bracteoles. Each umbel 

 shows seven buds, and it may be that one bracteole has aborted, or it was so early 

 deciduous that it was not seen. It requires further specimens to see if the number of 

 bracts was six. I did not see the segments split completely down to the base. See 

 also fig. 7, Plate 176. 



E. peltata Benth. — Bracteoles narrow lanceolate, slightly curved, thin and 

 almost transparent, rarely exceeding 2 mm. long and barely 1 mm. broad, only present 

 on the outer buds : none on the inner buds. (B. H. Cambage, Alma-den, Northern 

 Queensland, already referred to under Bracts.) 



E. pyrophora Benth. — Bracteoles glabrous, narrow lingulate, rather thick, some- 

 times broad, as if two are fused together, but usually more uniform in size and shape 

 than the bracts. The specimens examined are dry, but there appears to have been 

 one bracteole to each flower, as only one was missing in some of the umbels. They 

 are more deciduous than the bracts. (A. Sulman, Saxby Kiver, Northern Queensland. 

 See also under Bracts.) 



E. setosa F.v.M. — For bracteoles, see "'Bracts''; for figures of the former, 

 fig. la, Plate 158. 



C. THE BUD. 



a. The bud as a whole. 

 &• Calyx-tube. 



c. Operculum. 



d. Outer and Inner Operculum. 



(a) The Bud as a Whole. 



The bud is often referred to as a whole, i.e., in shape we may speak of it as 

 clavate. Our ideal is to describe the plump bud — the nearly bursting bud. 



Buds may be reminiscent of cloves in shape, thus : — 



E. tetrodonia (fig. 3a, Plate 185), and 



E. odontocarpa (fig. 16, Plate 186). 



Those of E. buprestium, are reminiscent in shape of those of the not closely 

 related E. Baileyana. 



In E. Floclxtonice we may have peculiar monihform buds, referred to in Part LVIII. 

 (Perhaps a second species is indicated.) 



References to the bud as a whole are scattered throughout the work, particularly 

 in descriptions of individual species. 



