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Colour. 



As a rule, the calyx-tube is green. Exceptionally it is of a different colour, 

 and exceptions should be noted in the bush. The calyx is Lincoln-reel in E. tetraptera. 

 In this species the top of the calyx or the inner flattish rim is bronze-yellow. 



E. buprestium — Buds warm brown. 



E. comtgata — Calyx-tube brownish. 



E. Forrestiana — Calyx-tube scarlet. 



Shape. 



(Mr. R. H. Anderson, B.Sc, Agr., one of my assistants, has endeavoured to 

 construct types of calyx-tubes from the drawings. This classification can only be 

 tentative and uncertain, because of the varying shapes and degrees of maturity of 

 the calyx-tube. The calyx-tube of the bud or flower imperceptibly becomes the 

 calyx-tube of the fruit.) 



1. More or less hemispherical, including depressed and flattened hemispherical. 



2. More or less cylindrical or oblong turbinate. This includes forms which taper 



towards the base, but only slightly. 



3. Truncate-ovate or oval. Oval in outline with rounded base. 



4. Turbinate, regular and usually narrow. The calyx narrows evenly and gradually 



into the pedicel. 



5. Rounded-turbinate or campanulate. A form intermediate between an oval 



or hemisphere and a regularly turbinate form. Usually rounded at the top, 

 but becoming cone-shaped. This embraces most broad turbinate forms. 



6. Urceolate. 5 and 6 are inter-related. 



7. Pear-shaped. 



8. Turbinate-quadrangular. Cone-shaped, but with four sides. 



1. More or less Hemispherical. 



E. alba. E. Lane-Poolei (or 5). 



E. annulata. E. Lehmanni. 



E. Bancrofti (2-edged). E. leptopoda (or 5). 



E. Banksii (or angled). E. longicornis. 



E. Camfieldi (angular). E. longifolia. 



E. corrugata. E. macrocarpa. 



E. cosmophylla (or 2). E. megacarpa (or 5). 



E. Ctdleni. E. Morrisii. 



E. Drummondii. E. Muelleri. 



E. erythronema. E. Naudiniana (or 5). 



E. Ewartiana. E. neglecta. 

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