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AFFINITIES. 



In B.F1. iii, 244, Bentham puts a query mark before the name, and adds— 

 " described from specimens far too imperfect to determine the affinities.'' 



J. G. Luehmann, in Proc. Aust. Assoc. Adv. Science, vii, 535 (1898) says — 

 " Described from too imperfect material to make recognition at all certain." 



The original is at Kew ; there is no specimen at Melbourne, only a drawing, 

 made from the specimen at Kew, similar to a drawing made for Sydney many 

 years after. 



The species is of uncertain relations, and it is hoped that the drawing may lead 

 to its recovery by collectors in the Northern Territory. 



1. With E. rudis Endl. 



Bentham (B.F1. iii, 197) contrasts it with E. rudis in the following words, and 

 probably the suggestion is as good as can be made, in view of the paucity of the 

 material and of the particulars concerning it. 



Leaves lung-lanceolate, with numerous, rather regular oblique veins, and mere or less reticulate- 

 Fruit rather large. 



Fruit with a broad flat dilated rim, the valves protruding. Tropical species ... E. patellaris. 



Fruit with a narrow rim. the capsule somewhat sunk, the points of the valves 



protruding. Western species ... E. rudis. 



2. With E. maculata Hook. 



It will be observed that the calyx-tube is warted, as in E. maculata, but in no 

 other respects, so far as I know, does E. patellaris present resemblance to a member of 

 the Corymbosae. The fruits are, of course, widely different. 



