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3. Var. melanophloia Benth. 



Leaves larger, more prominently veined. Murchison and South Hutt Rivers, 

 a small tree with a smooth black bark, Oldfield. B. Fl. hi, 253. 



Bentham (or perhaps Mueller) distributed this variety under the name var. 

 venosa. For example, " Cheeanga thicket, South Hutt " (Augustus Oldfield). The 

 South Hutt flows into the Geelvink Channel and is in the Geraldton district. 



I do not look upon it as a useful variety, for example, 



" 7-8 feet high, 30-40 miles east of Katanning, just beyond Nyabing. It has 

 oily green leaves. It is known locally as Mallee, and forms much of the denser under- 

 growth covering chiefly the gravelly ridges of this locality." (Dr. F. Stoward). 



Buds with mark of fallen double operculum well accentuated. Carnamah 

 (Midland Railway), Victoria district (Dr. A. Morrison, No. 20). Bud only. 



4. Var. oxymitra var. nov. 



The following is an interesting and anomalous form which one cannot fully 

 describe in absence of fruits. 



Broad Arrow (R. Helms, No. 102). In bud and flower only. Very long, curved, 

 very acuminate opercula, often bent at the tips. Calyx-tube 5 cm. long, operculum 

 2.5 cm. Is an eastern form with sub-glossy, coriaceous leaves, the younger ones 

 glaucescent. While a form of E. redunca, it undoubtedly shows some transition towards 

 E. occidentalis var. eremophila. 



AFFINITIES. 



1. and 2. With E. foecunda Schauer and E. spcithldata Hook. 



The species, especially in the narrow-leaved forms, has much resemblance on the one hand to 

 E. foecunda, on the other to E. sjjathulata, but is readily distinguished from the former by the operculum, 

 from the latter by the stamens and the acuminate operculum. (B. Fl. iii, 253). 



E. foecunda is a rough-barked species with a brownish timber. (See Part IV 

 of the present work). E. spathulata will be dealt with in Part XXXV. 



3. With E. aceedens W. V. Fitzgerald. 



This is the species with which E. redunca is closest related, and the relations 

 will be gone into when E. aceedens is reached, p. 101 below. 



