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Normally its leaf-venation is well marked, and its texture thickish, but these 

 both vary. 



The buds are conoid in the type^but while the opsreulum never attains the size 

 it may do in E. tereticornis, it^aay-be shorte-r or longer-or blunter than in the type. 



The length of the pedicel varies ; sometimes it is absent. 



While the rim of the fruit is normally flat and a little sharp, it may be as sharp as 

 in E. rostrata and as hemispherical, and this is the species to which it is perhaps most 

 closely allied. As a-consequence, and particularly when found in good soil, its fruit often 

 is near to that of E. rostrata. Sometimes, in arid country, growth may be arrested, and 

 we may have a very small fruit in E. dealbata. While the flat or horizontal is very 

 common in the species, there are various degrees of transition between this and the 

 domed fruit which attains a much greater development in E. tereticornis. 



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SYNONYM. 



E. tereticornis Sm. var. dealbata Deane and Maiden in Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S. W., 

 xxiv, 466 (1899). 



Note 1.— Bentham states that Mitchell's specimens (which I have not seen), 

 referred by Black in Journ. Linn. Soc. iii, 92, " to E. tectifica belong to E. dealbata, the 

 leaves of which sometimes assume the form of those of E. alba, but with a different 

 venation." (B. Fl. iii, 243, under E. alba). 



The reference is to Mr. Allan Black, Curator of the Hookefian Herbarium (op. 

 cit. p. 81). Mitchell's specimens (" N. Holl. sub-trop.") were collected probably in 

 northern New South Wales, but no number or locality is given. • 



Note 2. — " It is possible that this (E. dealbata ) may prove to be the true E. 

 fallens DC." (B. Fl.iii, 239). For the confusion which has gathered around E.falhns, 

 see Vol. i, p. 57 of the present work, and also pp. 20, 21 and 275 of Vol. ii. I would not 



revive it as a species^name to take priority." 



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Although it has not been recorded for any other State other than New South 

 Wales, it has been found so near to the Victorian and Queensland borders, that it seems 

 highly probable that it. will be found. in those States. The type came from the 

 Wellington district, and it occurs on both the southern and northern table-lands, and 

 even more, extensively on the Western Slopes, and also to a considerable extent on the 

 Western Plains, chiefly to the north and south. 



