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"Height about 30 feet, trunk to 15 feet, diameter to 1 foot ; bark persistent, white and smooth, timber 

 brownish-red to red, very hard and extremely tough. Leaves about -1 inches long, petioles £-§ inch. 

 Peduncles i-f inch. Calyx-tube 2-2§ lines long. Stamens 1-|— 2 lines, the filaments white. Fruit 2-2^ 

 lines in diameter. Fertile seeds dark brown. 



" Loc. — In sandy or rocky soil. Summits of Mounts Behn, Broom, and House ; C. 92, near the 

 Svnnot Range. 



" Affinity.— Distant— E. rudis Endl." 



I gave a brief note, quoting Mr. Fitzgerald, in Proc. Roy. Soc., N.S.W., LI, 448 

 (1917). 



RANGE. 



' Restricted to the sandstone and quartzite ranges, table-lands and sandy foot- 

 hills. On the shales of Mounts House and Clifton the tree life is largely restricted to 

 E. confluens and Grevillea heliosperma. Occurs on the conglomerates of Mount Behn." 

 (Fitzgerald in " Kimberley Report.") 



Beyond the above, all that has been published by Mr. Fitzgerald is a small-scale 

 photographic illustration with the words " a narrow-leaved tree; of much wider dis- 

 tribution than E. Mooreana (W.Y.F.) Maiden, see Journal Roy. Soc, N.S.W., 

 XTiVII, p. 221, especially north-east of the King Leopold Ranges."* 



AFFINITIES. 



It is evidently a strong species in the present state of our knowledge, and ad- 

 ditional material must become available before one can usefully indicate its relation- 

 ships. 



It will be seen above that Mr. Fitzgerald suggests a distant affinity to E. rudis 

 Endl. The material is incomplete, but the drawings on Plate 151 should be com- 

 pared with those of E. rudis in Part XXXIII, Plates 138 and 139. The leaves of E. 

 confluens are (on the material available) more uniformly narrow than those of E. rudis, 

 nor are the fruits as urceolate as those of E. rudis. Their anthers are not very different, 

 while they are similar in bark, and doubtless in general appearance, or Mr. Fitzgerald 

 would not have made the comparison. The timber of E. confluens is brownish-red to 

 red, that of E. rudis is brown to pale-brown. The evidence is still so imperfect that the 

 question of affinities is still unsolved. 



• Western Mail, (Perth, W.A.), 2nd June, 1906. 



