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Explanation of Plates (116-119). 

 PLATE 116. 



E. vernicosa Hook. f. 



1. Fatigue Hill, Tasmania (R. Gunn's No. 1113, 4th April, 1842). Type of the species. Note that the 



buds are not solitary, but in threes. Leaves not opposite. 

 2a. Twig with buds, flower and fruit ; 26, twig with fruit ; 2c, anthers. La Perouse, Tasmania. (L. Rodway.) 

 Buds and fruit solitary. 



3. Pointed leaf and conical operculum. Bud solitary. Plant H-3 feet high. Mt. Sorell, Macquarie 



Harbour, Tasmania, 3,000 feet (R. Gunn's No. 1113, 8th December, 1846). Note that two distinct 

 specimens are the No. 1113 of R. Gunn. 



4. Twig with buds in threes and relatively large leaves. (Collector of Baron von Mueller.) 



E. Muelleri T. B. Moore. 



5a. Juvenile leaves, almost in the opposite stage ; 56, small mature leaf and buds. Tasmania. (L. Rodway, 



December, 1897.) 

 6a. Juvenile leaves; 6b, fruits. The Springs, Mount Wellington, Tasmania. (J.H.M.andR .H. Cambage.) 



Note the affinity in the leaves to E. vernicosa. 

 la. Mature leaf ; 76, buds; 7c, immature fruits. The Springs. (R. H. Cambage, No. 4003.) 

 8a. Mature leaf and buds; 86, anthers. Mount Field East, 4,000 feet, Tasmania. (J.H.M.) This form 



shows transit to E. vernicosa. Compare figure 4 of the present Plate. 



PLATE 117. 



E. Kitsoniana (Luehmann) Maiden, 

 la. Juvenile leaf; 16, mature leaf with fruits. Near Foster, South Gippsland, Victoria. (A. W. Howitt.) 

 2a. Narrow leaf with pointed opercula to flower buds ; 26, leaf (also small) with buds ; 2c, anthers. Powlett 

 Plains, South Gippsland. (E. Kitson.) 



E. viminalis Labill. 



3. Twig from figure of type in Labillardiere's " Plantce Novm Hollandia," Vol. ii, Plate 151. 

 4a. Fruits; 46, anthers. Risdon river side near Hobart, Tasmania, 10th October, 1840 (R. Gunn's No. 685). 

 5a. Mature leaf; 56, fruits, not sessile. Foot of Cumming's Head, Northern Tasmania. (W. H. Archer.) 

 6a. Mature leaf; 66, buds; 6c, fruits. Circular Head, Tasmania (portion of 1090, R. Gunn). 



7. Immature fruits. Mt. Gambier, South Australia. (W. Gill.) 



8. Mature leaf and fruits with much exserted valves, type of E. crucivalvis, F.v.M. Lofty Range, South 



Australia. (Mueller.) 



PLATE 118. 



E. viminalis Labill. 



la. Juvenile leaves ; 16, small immature fruits, scarcely domed. Eight-mile Swamp, Port Road, Gippsland. 

 (A. W. Howitt.) 



2. Fruits in more than threes. Dunkeld, near Mt. Abrupt, Victoria. (Bolton.) 



3a. Coarse juvenile leaves; 36, pointed, pedicellate buds (in more than threes); 3c, anthers; 3d, fruits. 



Wild Horse Creek, Gippsland. (A. W. Howitt.) 

 4a. Juvenile leaves, nearly in opposite state (adventitious growth); 46, mature leaf; 4c, buds (in more 



than threes) ; id, fruits. Snowy River, Victoria and New South Wales. (A. W. Howitt.) 



5. Long narrow leaf and buds in more than threes. Little River, Victoria. (Fullagar.) 



