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Explanation of Plates. 

 PLATE 81. 



E. goniooalyx, F.v.M. 



1. .Seedling leaf, Walhalla, Victoria (A. W. Howitt). 



2a, 26, 2c. Juvenile leaves, in the opposite and sessile stage ; 'Id, in the opposite and sub-petiolate stage ; 

 2d 1 , mature leaf (some of the leaves are 15 inches long) ; 2c, young buds, which are angled. 

 Note that the operculum is much shorter than the calyx-tube ; if, fruits, slightly angled, pedicel 

 long, smallish orifice, valves sunk; 2g, anthers, Mississippi Creek, near Metung, Victoria 

 (J.H.M.) These specimens very closely resemble those of the type. The actual type specimens 

 have either not been preserved, or their identity has not been preserved. 



3. Buds with small pointed opercula, Major's Creek, N.S.W. (W. Bound.) 



4. Small fruits, Bellbird Creek, Eden-Pambula. (A. W. Howitt.) 



5. Still smaller fruits. Tantawanglo Mountain, near Catheart. (J.H.M.) 



6. Sessile fruits, Dandenong Mountain, Victoria. (J.H.M.) 



7. Buds with longer opercula than those of the type. Mt. Victoria, NSW. (J.H.M.) 



8a. Immature buds, 86, 8c, fruits more hemispherical than those of the type, and with exserted valves, a 

 character not found in the tvpe. Mt. Wilson, N.S.W. (Jesse Gregson and J.H.M.) 



E. nitens n. sp. 

 (var. nitens Deane and Maiden on the Plate.) 



9a. Juvenile leaf ; 96, 9c, mature leaves; 9d, 9e, young buds ; 9/, fruits with slightly exserted valves ; 

 9gr, fruits. Haydon's Bog, Delegate district, N.S.W. (W. Baeuerlen.) 

 The toothed appearance of the leaves is referred to at p. 272. 9/;, fruits, Delegate River. (W. 

 Baeuerlen.) 



1(1. Buds throwing off the "umbel" or " double-operculum," Dividing Range, Glenbog, Candelo, N.S.W. 

 (J. Duff.] 



PLATE 82. 



E. elceophora, F.v.M. 

 la. Mature leaf ; 16, immature burls : lc, angled fruits. Macalister Range, Gippsland (Mueller). Drawn 

 from type specimen, herb., Melb. 



2. Further developed buds. Note the comparatively small operculum and the angled calyx-tube (compare 



E. goniocalyx in regard to both characters). 

 3a. Juvenile leaves : 36, 3c, .3d, fruits varying in size ; 3e, buds and flower ; 3/' anthers. Heathcote, 

 Macedon, Victoria (W. S. Brownscombe). These specimens are practically identical with those 

 of the type. 



4. Fruits. Burrinjuck, N.S.W. (J. L. Boorman.) 



5. Fruits, slightly immature : silked. Mt. Lindsay, Nandewar Mountains, N.S.W. (R. H. Cambage, 



No. 2393.) 

 6a. Blunt buds, the short opercula with diameter exceeding that of the calyx-tube ; 66, buds with pointed 



opercula ; 6c, fruits, conoid in shape, and valves slightly exsert. Mt. Macdonald, near Cowra, 



N.S.W. (R. H. Cambage.) 

 7. Fruits, slightly stalked, nearly hemispherical, and valves slightly exsert. Side of Tia River, below 



Fall's, New England, N.S.W. (W. Forsyth.) 

 Sa. Juvenile leaves ; 86, buds; 8c, fruit. Bathurst, N.S.W. (L. Stephenson 



9. Elliptical juvenile leaf. Pambula to top of Big Jack, N.S.W. (A. W. Howitt). 



10. Buds, with the angles of the calyx-tube extended into short wings. Ringwood, Victoria (R. H. 



Cambage ) . 



11. Fruits angled, slightly domed, and with valves well exserted. Maryborough, Victoria (J. Blackburne). 



12. Fruits, valves well exserted. Very similar toll. Murrurundi, N.S.W. (J. L. Boorman and J.H.M.). 



13. Fruits almost conoid and valves very exsert. Adelaide and Barossa Hills, South Australia (W.Gill). 

 14a. Buds, with almost pointed operculum : 116, nearly hemispherical, thin-rimmed fruits, valves exsert. 



Long Gully (Cassilis township I, Victoria (Harry Hopkins). 



