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Dr. Bancroft's notes are : " Wood red ; timber, useless ; grows in swamps near 

 the coast; trunk and branches always crooked; tree very stunted, under 50 feet; 

 decays in the centre ; very short in the grain. A common tree from Redcliffe to 

 Caboolture. I do not know its wider range." 



The leaves are all lanceolate. Some leaves are falcate and thicker. The 

 operculum varies from subulate to conical. Sometimes, particularly in the coarse 

 foliaged specimens, the operculum becomes swollen in a ring at a little distance beyond 

 the suture. In drying, such buds exhibit a constricted appearance— viz., just above and 

 just below the swelling. The valves are markedly pale. 



These specimens, the most northerly seen by me, were at one time considered 

 by me to belong to E. Bancrofti, and were accordingly so figured in figs, la-d plate 130 

 part xxxi, which see. 



I have received specimens from Rockhampton (Queensland) which I doubtfully 

 refer to E. Seeana. 



It is a species which commonly passes under the name of E. tereticomis, and some 

 time must elapse before we know its full range. 



AFFINITIES. 



1. With E. tereticomis Sm. 



The narrowness of the young foliage is an obvious character, and attracts the 

 attention of the non-botanist. This narrowness sharply separates it from E. tereticomis, 

 a close ally, which has broad juvenile leaves. E. tereticomis has mature leaves of a 

 brighter green, with well-marked venation; their lustre is never dull. The buds of 

 E. Seeana have the operculum of less diameter than that of the calyx tube, owing to a 

 deciduous outer operculum ; this character has never been observed in E. tereticomis. 



2. With E. Bancrofti Maiden. 



The juvenile leaves of E. Seeana are linear; those of E. Bancrofti are broadly 

 lanceolate to nearly ovate ; this sharply separates them. The mature leaves of 

 E. Bancrofti vary from short and blunt to falcate-lanceolate ; those of E. Seeana are 

 invariably of the latter form and are usually (though not invariably, e.g., Burpengary) 

 thinner than those of E. Bancrofti. 



The operculum of E. Bancrofti is cylindrical-blunt, occasionally {e.g., Stanthorpe, 

 Q., and Camden Haven, N.S.W.) becoming more elongated and pointed, but obviously 

 connecting with the normal form. 



3. With E. squamosa Deane and Maiden. 



. There is some general similarity in the appearance of the seedlings of E. Seeana 

 and E. squamosa Deane and Maiden, but the cotyledon leaves are bilobed in the former 

 case, and bisected in the latter. 



Vol. ii plate 73 of the present work may be turned to as regards E. squamosa, 

 which is a smooth-barked tree (so is E. Seeana, but usually more erect), with broad 

 juvenile leaves, and quite different buds, anthers and fruits. 



