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AFFINITIES. 



1. With E. gamophylla F.v.M. 



The material available of E. argillacea is not complete, a very important 

 deficiency under the circumstances being the juvenile leaves. In spite of the fact that 

 E. argillacea is arborescent, and its opercula are more pointed than I have seen in any 

 specimen of E. gamophylla, I am of opinion that while it is desirable to publish all the 

 information available concerning E. argillacea, and give it a name, it seems very probable 

 that it is a form of E. gamophylla . The drawings can be referred to to show the close 

 affinity of the lanceolate-leaved stages. If it be not conspecific with E. gamophylla, 

 that species is its closest affinity. 



2. With E. melanophloia F.v.M. 



In the " Western Mail " of 16th June, 1906, Mr. Fitzgerald publishes the statement 

 that the present species " is a small tree allied to one of the east Australian Ironbarks 

 (E. erebra) and appears to be restricted to the clay-shales of Mounts House and Clifton." 

 The Ironbark referred to is E. melanophloia F.v.M. I have compared this species and 

 E. gamophylla at p. 131. 



3. With E. mierotheca F.v.M. 



Compare Part XI, Plate 52, of this work. E. mierotheca is a medium-sized to 

 large tree, with usually rough bark and deep brownish red timber. The juvenile leaves 

 are petiolate and comparatively narrow, the opercula conoid; the anthers are not closely 

 related, and the fruits very small, hemispherical, and with markedly exsert valves. 

 The affinity does not appear to be a close one. 



The above comparison may also be read with E. gamophylla. 



Explanation of Plates (144-147). 

 PLATE 144. 



E. Lehmanni Preiss. 

 la. Juvenile leaf; 16, intermediate leaf. Wilson's Inlet, west of King George's Sound, AV.A. (8. W. 



Jackson.) 

 2a. Long, broad, strap-shaped peduncle, surmounted by young buds; 26, mature leaf. Eucla. W.A. 



boundary. (J. Staer.) Cultivated. 

 3a. Mature leaf : 36, small head of fruits, " South Coast, New Holland, (3c) Fraser, ex. herb. Lambert, in 



Cambridge Herbarium." This was collected at no great distance from King George's Sound. 

 ia. Head of buds, with an expanded flower. Note the remarkably swollen top (forming a kind of receptacle) 



of the peduncle, to which the sessile flowers are attached. 46, Two views of anthers. Received 



from the late W. R. Guilfoyle, F.L.S., Director of the Botanic Gardens, Melbourne, and perhaps 



from a cultivated specimen. He may have got it in W.A., but I have mislaid his memorandum. 

 5a. Mature leaf ; 56. head of buds (note the somewhat flattened character of the operculum and its ridge) ; 



5c, head of fruits. From a cultivated specimen at Staveley, near Hamilton. Victoria. (\Y. V. 



Wardle.) 



