223 

 PLATE 125— continued. 



E. pellita F.v.M. (in part) — continued. 



Sa. Buds, nearly sessile; 86, sessile, angled fruits. Faulconbridge. (J.H.M.) N.B.— The Springwood 



and Faulconbridge localities are a mile apart and practically identical. 

 9. Juvenile leaf. Close to the 40-mile post, near Springwood. (R. H. Cambage and J.H.M.). Compare 



with 3a. 

 10a. Intermediate leaf; 106, buds. (Note the peculiar appearance owing to shrivelling, the top of the 



operculum not being distended by the bent filaments) ; 10c, front and back views of anthers. 



First Point, Encumber, N.S.W. (R. H. Cambage and J.H.M.) See also Plate 126. 



PLATE 126. 



E. pellita F.v.M. 

 (1-3, continuation of transit forms from Plate 125.) 



la. Mature leaf, moderately narrow; 16, mature leaf, broad; lc, sessile fruits; If?, larger fruits with very 



short pedicels; lc, fruits with longer pedicels. First Point, Kincumber. (R. H. Cambage and 



J.H.M.) See also Plate 125. 

 2a, 26. Mature leaves of varying width ; 2c, buds with overhanging opercula. " Bastard Mahogany.'' 



Bungwahl, N.S.W. (Augustus Rudder.) 

 3a. Buds in threes, opercula sharp-pointed ; 36. front and back views of anther ; 3c, angled fruits, large 



in size. Wyong, N.S.W. (J. L. Boorman.) 



E. pellita F.v.M. (Type.) 



4a. Mature leaf: 4b, buds; 4c, front views of anthers; 4c7, back view of anthers. Rockingham Bay, 

 Queensland. (J. Dallachy.) Type of E. <pdlita F.v.M. 



PLATE 127. 



E. pellita F.v.M. 



la. Mature leaf, thick, shiny, with raised midrib on the under surface ; 16, fruits, tips of valves sunk or 



flush with edge of rim ; lc, If?, fruits with valves well exsert. 

 2a. Juvenile leaf, thin, pale under-surface, venation marked. Kuranda, North Queensland, at 1.100 feet. 

 (R. H. Cambage, No. 3904.) N.B. — When the leaf becomes mature the venation consists of fine, 

 nearly parallel veins. 

 3a. Mature leaf, comparatively narrow; 36, buds, comparatively small. Kuranda, at 1,000 feet. (Miss 



Edith Edwards, also Miss L. S. Gibbs, F.L.S.) 

 4a and 46. the same fruit, in elevation and plan. 

 5a and 56. the same fruit, in elevation and plan. 



It will be noticed that in 4a we have a very marked band as the curve of the band narrows 

 towards the top. In 5a the contrary is the case. It was at one time thought that perhaps here 

 we might have a permanent character to separate large fruited forms of E. resinifera from E. pellita, 

 which is normally large-fruited. It, however, was found that the two forms ran into each other. 



E. brachjandra F.v.M. 

 Ga. Twig with mature leaves and flowers ; 6e, buds ; 6e, fruits, natural size ; Gd, fruits, enlarged, showing 

 the sunken valves and thin rim; Gc, buds, enlarged; 6/, front and back views of anthers. 

 Artesian Range, Kimberley, North- West Australia. (W. V. Fitzgerald.) 



The scales shown at 6e cover the operculum. In some cases they are uniform in size and show a 

 keel or external rib. They are, however, usually irregular in shape and are doubtless the five portions 

 of an outer or double operculum covering a single bud, and have become torn bv the growth of the 

 bud. 



