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RANGE. 



In the original description, at JPragm. XI, 84, it is stated to have been obtained 

 from South Western Australia by Maxwell, but that the precise locality was unknown. 

 Maxwell's headquarters were Albany, and he collected not many miles north of the 

 south coast. ' He did not go far west of King George's Sound, but collected in the 

 Stirling Range, and east towards the Great Bight, but I do not know how far east. 

 Mueller did not always demand or obtain precise localities from his collectors, and in 

 the case of large collections he very often contented himself with labelling the plant 

 with a vague locality such as " South West Australia " (as in this case), and the date, 

 which might have furnished a clue, was very often omitted. He often did this to save 

 his own time, trusting to his own excellent memory, and very often the precise locality, 

 though always desirable, did not much matter, as.it has done in the case of the present 

 species. The material is incomplete, the locality and date are wanting, and they happen 

 to be badly required now. I suggest that the material on which this particular species 

 was founded was received by Mueller with other odds and ends, imperfectly labelled, 

 amongst Maxwell's effects, soon after his death at Middleton Beach, Albany, in Janu- 

 ary, 1880. 



AFFINITIES. 



1. With E. Flocktonice Maiden. 



Only leaves and flowers (with buds) of E. Cooperiana are in existence (see figure 

 5, Plate 15) ; fruits were never seen by Mueller, and therefore one must proceed 

 with caution. Some not perfectly ripe fruits (which perhaps belong to E- Flocktonice). 

 have since been attributed to E. Cooperiana, but they are, I think, not free from doubt. 

 I hope, therefore, that the publication of the figures, and of the present statement, will 

 set collectors to work, and material will be rendered available to decide what E. Cooper- 

 iana really is. For drawings of E. Flocktonia? see Plate 69, Part XVI. 



' It is nearer to E. Flocktonia? , from which it differs in the broad peduncles and 

 pedicels, the broader leaves and the operculum, which is long in E. Flocktonia? . At 

 the same time it is a species which requires further investigation. 



" Although Mueller said he had not seen it in fruit, I have received from Pro- 

 fessor Ewart a small twig bearing two not fully developed fruits, which certainly bear 

 some general resemblance to those of E. Flocktonia?." (See Maiden in Journ. Roy. Soc, 

 N.S.W., XLIX, 327, 1915). 



