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Variety grandiflora Benth. 



Leaves rather broader. Flowers and fruits larger. Phillips Range, Maxwell. 

 (B. Fl. iii, 236). 



Shrubs on dry gravelly places. Phillips Range {Maxwell). 



The material available is figured at fig. 1, Plate 147. 



It will be seen that, if referable to E. spathulata (and, in its incomplete state 

 it is as near to that species as any other), it seems, in the fruit, to have affinity with 

 E. occidentalis, var. eremophila. 



AFFINITIES. 



1. With E. platypus Hook. 



Under E. platypus, p. 123, I have already discussed some specimens which seem 

 to show transit between E. spathulata and E. platypus, but we are hampered by the 

 imperfection of our knowledge in regard to the former species. 



2. With E. occidentalis Endl. 



" E. spathulata Hook., is an extreme form of E. occidentalis, distinguished chiefly 

 by small flowers and short and extremely narrow leaves. E. spathulata Hook. f. 

 and E. macrandra F.v.M. are probably extreme forms of this species " (Eucalypto- 

 graphia under E. occidentalis). 



J. G. Luehmann was of opinion (Proc. Aust. Assoc. Adv. Science, 1898) that 

 E. occidentalis included E. macrandra and E. spathulata as varieties, but did not give 

 them 'names. 



InJB. Fl. iii, 195, Bentham makes a statement of the points of E. spathulata for 

 comparative purposes, as follows : — 

 Leaves narrow. 

 Peduncles flat. 



Flowers and fruit shortly pedicellate. 

 Ovary flat-topped, the style not thickened. 

 Fruit obovoid, much contracted at the orifice. 

 Points of the valves often protruding. 



I have not seen the ripe fruit of the type, and further consideration of the 

 affinities of the two species may be considered until E. occidentalis is reached. 



