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A FORM ALLIED TO E. spathulata Hook. 



"We now arrive at consideration of certain specimens which, (in the present 

 unsatisfactory state of our knowledge of E. spathulata) had better be placed in a suspense 

 account. 



1. "A dense scrubby growth 4-6 feet high (Marlock), with conoid, angular 

 fruits, flattened foot-stalks, buds egg-in-egg-cup, and narrow or spathulate leaves. 



' The second growth foliage is very much more spathulate than shown by Hooker, 

 Icones, 611 (type of E. spathulata). I, however, picked from the same clump of shrubs 

 specimens precisely similar to those in Hooker's figure, and also some strictly spathulate, 

 5 cm. long and rather more than 2 broad. They are all thick and coriaceous, and the 

 venation appears to be not dissimilar to that of E. occidentalis. 



" It is rather common near the Kalgan River (Porongorups to Stirling Range)." 

 This is an extract from the Journ. W.A. Nat. Hist. Soc. iii (Jan., 1911), describing a 

 form I had suggested to be a var. spathulata of E. occidentalis. 



2. " Locally called a ' Moort.' Dense sapling-like trees, 10-20 feet, main stem 

 2-3 inches or more in diameter. Growing in flat depressions, moist in wet season. 

 Trees branch only at their tops and form such dense growth that other plant species, 

 are excluded." Near Ongerup (Dr. F. Stoward, Nos. 131 and 133). 



Xos. 1 and 2 appear to be alike, and are figured at figs. 2 and 3, Plate 146. 



It is foimd that the leaves vary a good deal in width. They are thick and shiny 

 and in those respects, and because some of the leaves are getting broad, I think that, 

 when we know more about these shrubs, we will pronounce them to constitute a form 

 of E. platypus, showing transition to E. spathulata, through the broader leaved forms 

 of that species. 



AFFINITIES. 



1. With E. cornuta Labill. 



" From E. cornuta it differs chiefly, besides in foliage also in lesser height, in the broader and longer 

 flower stalks, generally shorter lids, colour of filaments, very angular fruits and short valves ; but a variety 

 is depictued in the plate of E. obcordata (platypus), which approaches in the form of the calyces rather 

 closely E. cornuta." (" Eucalyptographia," under E. obcordata.) Compare plates 142 and 143 with 

 plate 145. 



E. platypus has more of a Mallee habit, while E. cornuta is less gregarious and 

 more umbrageous, with timber especially esteemed. The juvenile leaves of E. platypus 

 are more fleshy, those of E. cornuta being thin. The diameters of the calyx-tubes as 

 compared with those of the opercula, are very much more accentuated in E. platypus, 

 while in that species they are relatively shorter and less curved. The fruits of 

 E. platypus lack the drawn out capsule valves which are so obvious in E. cornuta. 



2. With E. occidentalis Endl. 



The relations between these two species are very close, and it will be best to 

 consider them when E. occidentalis is reached in Part XXXVI. 

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