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PLATE 145. 



E. annulate. Benth. 



[a, 16. Mature leaves; ]c. head of flowers, showing short, very broad peduncle; lrf, nearly ripe fruits, 



Phillips River, W.A. (L. Diels, No. 4869.) 

 2a. Buds — note the expansion of the operculum towards the apex; 'lb. two views of anther. Salt River, 



W.A. (George Maxwell.) The type. 

 3. Head of fruits. Received from the late Mr. \Y. R. Guilfoyle without specific locality. 



E. platypus Hook. 

 (See also Plate 146.) 



4a. Portion of twig, showing mature leaves, buds and flowers ; 46, long, strap-shaped peduncle, with flowers ; 



4c, some not perfectly ripe fruits ; Ad, end view of a ripe fruit. Drummond's No. 183. The type. 

 5a. Juvenile leaf, thick and unsymmetrical ; 56. twig, bearing mature leaf and head of buds; 5c, two 



views of anther; od, fruits, almost winged. Main road and east of Growangerup, W.A. (Dr. 



F. Steward.) 

 6. Pendulous fruits. Growangerup, east of Broome Hill, W.A. (W. C. Grasby.) 

 7a. Juvenile leaf, almost in early stage ; lb, mature leaf, not as wide as the type ; 7c, mature leaf, very 



much narrower than that of the type, and undoubtedly the form referred to by Bentham as a 



doubtful variety ; Id, head of buds : 7c, head of fruits, with the valves partly exserted. Hopetoun, 



W.A. (J.H.M.) 

 8. Head of fruits. Received from 6. French, «'f Melbourne, without locality. 



PLATE 146. 



E. platypus, var. nutans Benth. 



(See Plate 145.) 



la. Juvenile leaf, not quite in the earliest stage; 16, mature leaf; lc, strap-shaped peduncle and very 

 young buds; Id, head of buds ; lc. anthers; 1/, head of fruits ; la, a fruit looking end-on. Kundip, 

 near Ravensthorpe, W.A. (J.H.M.) 



Transit forms between E. platypus Hook, and E. spathulata Hook: — 

 2«, 26. Leaves of various shapes, 2a being the younger ; 2c, long strap-shaped peduncle and buds. ; 2d, small 



fruits ; 2e, large fruits. Near Ongerup, W.A. (Dr. F. Stoward.) 

 3a. Nearlv a juvenile leaf ; 36, mature leaf ; 3c, buds ; 3d, anthers ; 3c, fruits. Near Kalgan River, Kalgan 



Plains, W.A. (J.H.M.) 



E. spathulata Hook. (See also Plate 147.) 



4a. Twig bearing buds and flowers; 46, twig, showing very young buds; 4c, bud, the operculum about to 

 fall: Id. unripe fruit. Reproduced from the drawing of the type in Hooker's Icones Planlarum, 

 t. 611. 



5. Twig with buds of Drummond's No. 68. (See p. 125.) 



6. Flowering twig of Drummond's No. 58. (See p. 125.) 



7a. Leaves ; 76, buds, the opercula chestnut-brown ; 7c, anthers. Eulymartryrup, W.A. (Dr. F. Stoward, 



No. 125.) 

 8a. Mature leaf; 86, buds, opercula very rounded; 8c, fruits, which, like the calyx-tubes, are almost 



winged. Facup Creek. (Dr. L. Diels, No. 476 F.) 

 9a. Leaves ; 96, buds ; 9c, anthers ; 9a", fruits. Note that they are not " much contracted at the orifice," 



as stated in the description of the fruits of E. spathulata. Broome Hill, W.A. (Dr- A. Morrison.) 

 10a. Mature leaf, venation invisible; 106, fruits, nearlv globose. Cunderdin, W.A. (W. V. Fitzgerald.) 

 (Note. — 8-10, if truly referable to K. ^pnlhulaia. approach vnr. iirandi flora , Benth.) 



