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Leaves alternate, petiolate, broadly ovate. Fruit globose, truncate or 

 with a very short neck. — 13. E. latifolia. 



Leaves ovate-lanceolate or lanceolate, atcuminate, with numerous fine, 

 close, almost transverse veins. 



Tropical species. Fruit 1 to IJ in. long, prominently ribbed. — 



25. E. ptychocarpa. 

 Eastern species. Fruit ^ to fin. long, not ribbed. — 7. E. corym- 

 bosa. 

 Leaves long-lanceolate, thick and smooth, the very fine close almost 

 transverse veins scarcely conspicuous. 



Fruit oblong. Operpulum depressed, continuous with the calyx till 



the moment of separation. — ^29. E. terminaUs. 

 Fruit globular or ovoid, contracted at the mouth. Operculum of E. 



terminalis. Flowers large. — 26. E. pyrophora. 

 Fruit nearly globular, with a short neck. Operculum depressed. — 

 9. E. dichromophloia. 



Sub-series VI. Eudesmiece. — ^Leaves, including the petiolate ones, 

 mostly opposite or nearly so. Peduncles usually 3-flowered. Calyx with 4 

 minute teeth, more or less conspicuous below the globular hemispherical or 

 flattened operculum. Stamens sometimes in 4 clusters. 



Fruit above ^-in. long. Leaves long-lanceolate, the veins usually con- 

 spicuous. Flowers rather large. — 31. E. tetrodonta. 



Fruit under ^-in. long. Leaves short-lanceolate, the veins scarcely 

 prominent. Flowers small. — 15. E. odontocarpa. 



1. E. alba, Reinw. — ^N. Australia, Baudin's Expedition ; grassy valleys, 

 MacArthur River, Gulf of Carpentaria, F. v. Mueller. 



2. E. aspera, F. v. M. — Sandstone table-land, Upper Victoria River, 

 F. V. Mueller. 



3. E. bicolor, A. Cunn. — Recorded in National Herbarium Census from 

 N. Australia. Blask Box. 



Recorded in National Herbarium Census from N. Australia. 



4. E. brachyandra, F. v. M. — ^Rocky dechvities of the Upper Victoria 

 River, F. v. Mueller. 



5. E. brachypoda, Turcz. — ^N.W. Coast, A. Cunningham ; tableland of 

 the Upper Victoria River, also in the scrub between Flinders and Albert Rivers, 

 GuK of Carpentaria, F. v. Mueller ; MacdonneU Ranges, McDouall Stuart's 

 Expedition. Box-tree. 



6. E. clavigera, A. Cunn. — Careening Bay, N.W. Coast, A. Cunningham ; 

 islands of the Gulf of Carpentaria, R. Brown ; and Rocky Hills, near Macadam 

 Range, F. v. Mueller ; Albert River, Henne. 



7. E. corymbosa, Sm. — From N. AustraUa in National Herbarium 

 Census. Boxtree. Bloodwood. 



8. E. crebra, F. v. M. — ^Between the Flinders and LjTid Rivers, GuU of 

 Carpentaria, F. v. MueUer ; Ironbark Tree. 



9. E. dichromophloia, F. v. M. — Islands of the Gulf of Carpentaria, R. 

 Brown ; Abel Tasman, McArthur, and Roper Rivers, F. v. MueUer. 



10. E. drepanophyUa, F. v. M.- — N.W. Coast, A. Cunningham ; Iron- 

 bark. 



11. E. ferruginea, Schau. — Copeland Island, N.W. Coast, A. Cunning- 

 ham ; Victoria River and Amhem's Land, F. v. MueUer. 



