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7. E. inerassata, Labill., var. dumosa. 



E. dumosa, in comparison with E. gracilis, can mainly be recognised by the absence or extreme 

 shortness of the stalklets, the calyces not or less angular, the stamens all fertile, larger anthers opening by 

 ample slits and mostly larger fruits. Nearly the same characteristics remove E. inerassata, but that 

 species is, besides, larger in all its parts, its leaves are broader, the flower stalks very much flattened, the 

 calyces often furrowed-streaked ; both form the transit from the parallelantherse to the micrantherse. 



If an tliers be available, tbose of E. calycogona, wbicb open in pores, cannot 

 well be confused witb those of any variety of E. inerassata. 



Some of the smallest forms of the variety dumosa are not unlike specimens 

 of E. calycogona, var. gracilis, but the more pointed operculum of the former 

 serves at once to distinguish them. 



8. E. bieolor, A. Cunn. (E. largiflorens, F.v.M.) 



E, gracilis differs from E. largiflorens in shining leaves not of a greyish hue, more numerous and still 

 finer veins and more perceptible oil-dots in the numerous sterile stamens, anthers opening laterally, less 

 copiously paniculated, more angular calyx, the lid not rarely pointed, often somewhat larger fruit with not 

 distinctly contracted summit, and also in not extensively persistent bark ; but seemingly a variety of 

 E. largiflorens from Northern Queensland exhibits also shining leaves of vivid green. 



E. bieolor is a large tree with red timber and dull-coloured foliage. These 

 characters are usually sufficient to distinguish them from the species under 

 consideration. 



