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Calyx-tube obovoid, thick, about 2 lines long, tapering into a short thick pedicel. Operculum 

 cylindrical, obtuse, often narrower than the calyx and about twice as long. 



Stamens erect, slightly flexuose, about 4 lines long, the border of the staminal disc inflected over 

 the sunk ovary ; anthers oblong, parallel-celled. 



Style slightly thickened at the base. 



Fruit obovoid, 3 lines or rather more in length, and nearly as much in diameter, contracted at the 

 orifice, which is further closed by the rather broad, flat rim ; capsule sunk, but the points of the valves 

 sometimes slightly protruding. 



RANGE. 



It is confined to Western Australia. Drummond collected the type. 



Bentham quotes Harvey as having got it " between Perth and King George's 

 Sound." 



I have seen the following specimens : — 



No. 58, Drummond; No. 68, Drummond, quoted by Bentham as belonging to 

 this species. I have a specimen of the latter, and also a drawing of No. 58. The leaves 

 are covered with fine dots. No fruits. 



The following specimen in bud (the operculum pale or chestnut coloured) and 

 mature leaves, was sent to me by Dr. F. Stoward under No. 93. " Local name Swamp 

 Mallet. Tree from 20 to 30 feet and up to 2 feet in diameter. Grows generally around 

 lakes in Southern District, east and west of Katanning. Bark of tree is used for tanning 

 purposes, but is not favoured by merchants. Bark is thin but contains a lot of tannin. 

 Lake Ewlymartyup, east of Katanning." The material available is figured at fig. 7, 

 Plate 146, and pending complete specimens seems nearest to E. spathulata. Venation 

 hardly visible, leaves very black, dotted. I note that it is a tree; I personally only 

 know E. spathulata as a shrub. 



The following specimens seem to belong to E. spathulata : — 



" Shrub 1-lf metres high, purplish operculum." Facup Creek, Kent district 

 (Dr. L. Diels, No. 4767). Leaves a little broader than the type. Calyx-tubes very 

 angled ; fruit conoid and tips of valves protruding. Broome Hill (Dr. A. Morrison). 

 Leaves a little broader than the type, fruits quite smooth, tips of valves not protruding. 



Cunderdin (W. V. Fitzgerald, Nov., 1907). (Received as E. leptopoda Benth.). 

 The leaves are broader than the type, the fruits smooth, rather pear-shaped, or even 

 tending to globose, the pedicels slender, the rims horizontal. They have a Brachyscelid 

 gall shaped like a young pomegranate. 



