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PLATE 147. 



E. spathulata Hook, var. grandiflora Benth. 



(See also Plate 146.) 



la. Mature leaf, venation scarcely visible: 16, buds and flowers. The present surface of the operculum 

 (an outer one having obviously dropped off) is rough and warty; lc, fruits. Phillips Ranges, 

 W.A. (George Maxwell.) Type of var. grandiflora. 



E. gamophyUa F.v.M. 



2. Juvenile leaves (perfoliate or gamophyllous). North of MacDonnell Range, Northern Territory. 



(Lieut. Dittrich. 1886.) 



3. Perfoliate leaves and fruits. Note that they are more than " 2 or 3 " together. Near boundary of 



South and Western Australia. Elder Exploring Expedition (R. Helms, 17th July, 1891). 



in. Perfoliate mature leaves : 46, leaves varying from perfoliate to sessile ; 4c, anthers ; id, fruits, rather 

 long. Fortescue River, W.A. (W. A. Cusack, 1895, from Melbourne Herbarium.) 



5. Twig with the mature leaves petiolate, and the flowers small, and arranged in a racemose manner. 



Central Australia. (See p. 129.) (Charles Winnecke.) 



6. Sessile, short broad leaves. Thirty-five miles north-west of Meyer's Hill, Northern Territory. (G. 



F. Hill No. 223, 2nd June, 1911.) 



7. Leaves varying from perfoliate, sessile and petiolate, all on the same shoot. Henbury Station, Finke 



River. Northern Territory. (G. F. Hill, No. 45, 9th March, 1911.) 



E. argillacea W. V. Fitzgerald. 



*a. Twigs with mature leaves, buds and flowers. The leaves are of a very pale, opaque green ; the venation 

 is scarcely visible, and the intramarginal vein is lost in the edge of the leaf. The style exceeds 

 the filament in length. 86, Different views of stamens ; 8c, fruite. Base of Mount House, 

 Kimberley, North- West Australia. (W. V. Fitzgerald, No. 962, May, 1905.) The type. 



