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In moist sandy soil. 



Affinity, E. Drummondii Boiss, and E. alsiniflora Baill. 



344. E. schizolepis F. v. JNI. 



Prince Regent's River (J. Bradshaw & Allen), near Derby ; 



May, and Lennard Rivers (W.V.F. ). 

 Capsules scabrous, two lines long, obtusely angled ; seeds 



large, greyish, covered with numerous irregular white 



tubercles. In sandy loam. 



345. E. atoto Forster. 



Often a spreading shrub of l-2ft. high, sometimes shghtly 

 tomentose ; leaves frequently scantily serrulated ; gland- 

 appendages white, ovate, larger than the gland. The 

 stipules are mostly setaceous and entire and not fimbriate 

 as in Indian specimens. 



346. E. chrysochseta W. V. F. n. sp. 



An erect scarcely branched annual ; the branches and upper 

 portion of the stem closely invested with rigid spreading 

 shining yellow pointed hairs, intermixed with a scant 

 white crisped pubescence ; leaves opposite, shortly but 

 distinctly petiolate, ovate to ovate-lanceolate, obtuse, 

 very obhque and obtuse at the base, sparingly pubescent 

 on both pages with short white appressed hairs, pale or 

 glaucous beneath, the veins prominent ; stipules small 

 and narrow, lacerate or irregularly fringed ; inserted 

 on a conspicuous transverse stipular Une ; floral bracts 

 minute, narrow, lacerate or fringed ; involucres numerous, 

 crowded in bead-Hke cymes on an evident peduncle in one 

 axil of each pair of leaves, or sessile and terminal, the whole 

 inflorescence invested with short white or yellowish hairs ; 

 involucres small, the glands small and globose with con- 

 spicuous but small orbicular entire petal-like appendages ; 

 capsule hirsute ; seeds ovoid, acutely angled and trans- 

 versely shallow-rugulose. 



May, and Lennard Rivers (W.V.F.) 



Height 6-1 Sin. Leaves |— Ifin. long. Involucres 1-3 lines 

 long. Appendages of the glands pale or pink. Capsules 

 J line diameter. Seeds pale-brown. 



In wet sandy or muddy spots. 



Affinity to E. pilulifera L. 



347. E. piluHfera L. 



Goose Hill, near Ord River (W.V.F.) 

 In sandy loam. 



348. E. eremophila A. Cuim. 



The Kimberley form is usually about 2ft. in height. 



