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DESCRIPTION. 



CDXXXI. E. past oralis Spencer Moore. 



Journ. Bot., xl., 27 (1902). 



In Part XXV, p. 95 of the present work, I have placed E. pastoralis as a synonym 

 of E. alba, and. quoted the original description. As it appears to be a much larger 

 flowered species than E. platyphylla, I think it had better be kept apart from that 

 species until we know more about it. 



Portion of the type is figured at Plate 105, figs. 8, 9. Fig. 7, from Port Darwin, 

 is almost identical with fig. 9 from the Adelaide River, North Australia, the type locality 

 for E. pastorales. It will be seen, therefore, that it is not confined to one locality, and 

 may have a much wider range than we are aware of at present. 



RANGE. 



So far I have seen specimens from the following localities, all of which are in the 

 Northern Territory : — 



Port Darwin (Paul Foelsche). Nearly globular buds (see fig. 66, Plate 105) 

 Tree of 40 feet, banks of Katherine River, Northern Territory (C. E. F. Allen, No. 681). 

 With slightly smaller buds than the type. Adelaide River (Rev. T. L. Lea). The 

 type. 



AFFINITIES. 



1. With E. platyphylla F.v.M. and E. alba Reinw. 



In the original description Spencer Moore makes the following comparison : — 



" Near E. platyphylla E.Br, and E. alba Reinw. The leaves are almost exactly those of the former, 

 but in either case the buds and opercula are much smaller than those of E. pastoralis and differently- 

 shaped. At the British Museum there is a specimen, sent under the name of ' E. alba Reinw.' by Baron 

 Mueller, which has large flowers with a broad, hemispherical, very obtuse operculum, almost exactly like 

 that of E. pastoralis. This is altogether unlike typical E. alba Reinw., and may perhaps be a small-leaved 

 form of the species described above." (Journ. Bot. xl, 27, 1902.) 



The buds are certainly distinct from those of E. alba and E. platyphylla, they 

 are larger, more spherical, and thicker in texture than in either of the above species. 

 The leaves of E. alba are also much narrower and more acuminate than those of 

 E. pastoralis or E. platyphylla. 



