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Mr. C. R. P. Andrews had been travelling in the King George's Sound district, 

 thence east to Esperance, and north nearly to Kalgoorlie. In the course of a letter 

 to me he wrote : " I saw nothing in the south that I could call E. platypus ; the so- 

 called ' Marlock ; thickets consisted chiefly of E. cornuta and E. occidentalis. I saw 

 E. Lehmanni in one place, but not in flower. I have seen it flowering in a garden in 

 Albany with the filaments bright green." 



The filaments are yellowish green in Bot. Mag. t. 6140, and I have seen them of 

 that colour in a cultivated specimen. In the original they are described as dirty white 

 (sordide alba). Those of E. cornuta are, in my experience, greenish white — that is to say, 

 inclining to greenish, but I am not in a position to say that yellow filaments for Lehmanni 

 and green ones for cornuta are characteristic of each species. 



At Staveley, near Hamilton, Victoria, a planted tree six years old at the time 

 was described as " 12 to 20 feet high." The height was given from memory. 



AFFINITY. 



With E. cornuta Labill. 



It differs in the fused calyx-tubes of E. Lehmanni, which form an almost globular 

 mass. This matter has already been gone into. It may be that there is a difference 

 in the juvenile leaves, those of E. Lehmanni being much the smaller, while the bark of 

 E. Lehmanni, so far as we know it, is smooth, while that of E. cornuta is rougher. I 

 hope that local naturalists will very carefully compare the two species. 



