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RANGE. 



So far as we know, it is confined to Western Australia and to the Central 

 Division of that State. Even yet Western Australia has been imperfectly explored 

 as regards its Eucalypts, and hence some of our conclusions concerning them 

 must still be of a provisional character. 



" 7 or 8 feet high, bark of trunk rough, of upper branches smooth 

 and peeling off," Watheroo Rabbit Fence (Max Koch). 



Tammin, the furthest west recorded on the Perth -Kalgoorlie line (J.H.M.) 

 " Grows on the sand-plains in clumps, 6 or 7 feet high, shrubby. Flowers small, 

 white; colour of bark reddish-brown." (Kellerberrin, F.Harvey Vachell.) 



Boorabbin (Dr. A. Morrison); Coolgardie (Dr. L. G. Webster). 



Then we have 



Arbuscula circ. 3 m. alta E. leptopoda/m Bth. fructu accedens, sed foliis majoribus crassioribus 

 glaucis, pedunculis brevioribus, fructibus majoribus notata hab. in dist. Austin meridionali pr. Menzies in 

 fructicetis mixtis arenosis fruct. m. Oct. (D. 5,179). Quae forma a cl. Maiden (in litteris), E. hptopodae 

 attributa sed probabiliter omnino nova ulterius observanda est. (Diels and Pritzel, Engler's Jahrb., 1904, 

 p. 442.) 



Diels gives 25 km. (kilometres) south of Menzies for some specimens, which 

 is not far from Comet Vale, where it is abundant (J.H M.). 



AFFINITIES. 



1. With E. oleosa, F.v.M. 



In buds, less in anthers, and occasionally in the narrow-leaved forms of E. 

 oleosa, E. leptopoda may resemble that species, but as a rule E. leptopoda has 

 narrow leaves, while the fruits of the two species are totally different. 



2. With E. angustissima, F.v.M. 



This species has depressed, domed fruits which certainly remind one of those 

 of E. leptopoda, but they are almost sessile. The anthers appear to be more kidney- 

 shaped in E. angustissima, but we imperfectly know them. E. angustissima is a 

 narrow-leaved species, but its leaves are narrower than those of E. leptopoda. 



3. With E. maerorrhyneha, F.v.M. 



Certainly the fruits of E. leptopoda simulate those of E. maerorrhyneha 

 (compare Plate 39), but those of the latter species have longer pedicels, while the rim 

 is rarely if ever flat, as is E. leptopoda in fig. S, Plate 73. E. maerorrhyneha is a 

 large fibrous-barked tree of Eastern Australia. 



4. With E. hcemastoma, 8m., var. micrantha, Benth. (E. mierantha, DC). 

 The fruits of this variety are smaller than those of E. leptopoda, but 



undoubtedly similar. See figures at top of Plate 47. Turczaninow noted this in his 

 description of E. angustifolia, ante page 220. There is no close relation between the 

 species. 



