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Following is a variety : — 



Var. ecostata, Maiden. 



The calyx-tube of this species is often free or nearly so from furrowing (or ribbing), and the same 

 applies to the fruits. I propose to constitute a variety for this form, and give it the name ecostata. 



In the variety there is often not an abrupt transition between the calyx-tube and the operculum 

 as in the normal form. 



The variety is not a strong one, since there is frequent and absolute transition between it and the 

 species. It seems, however, desirable that the form should have a name, particularly as fruits of this 

 species, and perhaps of the variety, have entered into the confusion which for so long gathered around 

 E. clecurva, F.v.M., and which 1 will clear up when I come to that species. — (Journ. W.A. Nat. Hist. Soc, 

 Vol. iii, 173, January, 1911.) 



RANGE. 



It is confined to Western Australia as far as we know. I know it from the following 

 localities :— 



Between Albany and Williams River (Webb) . 



" Porongerup (Porongornp) Ranger" (Range), Maxwell. Specimen received 

 from Mueller labelled " Type of E. decurva, F.M.," and received by me from Herb. 

 Barbey-Boissier, Geneva. 



The locality is identical with " Plains to the north and south of Stirling 

 Range, Maxwell," as quoted in B.F1. iii, 248. As a matter of fact Maxwell did not 

 collect it on the Porongorups proper, but on the low sandy undulations which 

 gradually slope into the plains between this range and tbat of the Stirling Range 

 and beyond. I have collected it myself in various sand-plains localities (Kalgan 

 River Plains) in the vicinity of the Stirling Range. The nearest locality for 

 JE.falcata to the Porongorups proper would be 4 or 5 miles, and " Porongorups " is 

 quoted as a convenient name-place. Local people speak of this short range as the 

 Porongorups. 



Yetmerup, north side of Stirling Range (A. Morrison) ; Toll's Creek, Stirling 

 Range (A. Morrison) ; Stirling Range (Diels, 2,989, distributed as E. decurva); 

 Stirling Range (Louis Dillon) ; liopetoun (J.H.M.), with normal and also very 

 large fruits. 



Var. ecostata, Maiden. 



Where I have collected it myself, I have always found this variety more or 

 less interspersed with the normal form. 



It is represented in the National Herbarium, Sydney, by the following 

 specimens : — 



Kalgan Plains (N.B. — These plains are between the Porongorups and the 

 Stirling Range) (J.H.M.). Between Warrungup and Ellen's Peak, Stirling Range 

 (A. Morrison). 



