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13. Same particulars as No. 12. Portion of seedling, consisting of one pair of opposite leaves and of six 

 alternate leaves, the whole plant covered with fine, stellate hairs. 



(Ref. No. 154 H.H.). From Tropical Western Australia (H. Steedman, Perth). Seedlings 

 from seeds sown 30th October, 1922, have subterranean petioles of the cotyledon leaves as figured 

 in 11; stellate hairs and larger leaves, thickish and whitish (glaucous) in colour, contrasting in 

 appearance with Nos, 12 and 13. 



PLATE 3. 



E. eximia Schauer. 



9. (Ref. No. 419.) Berowra, about 8 miles south from the railway bridge, Hawkesbury River, N.S.W. 

 (Andrew Murphy, 1913). Seedling with two pairs of cotyledon leaves and two pairs of petiolate 

 opposite first leaves. The undersides of the cotyledon leaves of a deep purple, with a faint 

 purplish tint on the undersides of the other leaves. Sown 3rd December, 1914; drawn 12th 

 January, 1915. 



10. (Same particulars as No. 9.) Upper portion of a seedling, showing alternate leaves, and all of them 

 slightly peltate. The lower leaves, not depicted, are also peltate. The colour of the underside 

 of the lowest depicted foreshortened leaf can be seen. The whole seedling, and particularly 

 the rachis, petiole, and veins plentifully besprinkled with reddish glandular hairs. Drawn 13th 

 April, 1915. 

 Nos. 11, 12, and 13 will be found on Plate 3, under E: miniata. 



Ref. No. X 90, Gosford, N.S.W. Seeds collected by Andrew Murphy, 15th January, 1918, 

 and sown 22nd January, 1918. Seedlings drawn, but not reproduced. One drawn 6th May, 

 1918, has a lower pair of opposite leaves, and the upper leaves peltate. Other drawings resemble 

 those of Nos. 9 and 10. At 8 inches high most of the leaves alternate and slightly peltate. A 

 more advanced seedling, 9£ inches in height on 6th May, 1918, has all the leaves alternate, long 

 lanceolate, almost glabrous, and scarcely peltate. A pair of nearly opposite leaves drawn 19th 

 January, 1920, from a seedling 1 ft. 8 in. high, and depicted 10| inches from the top, are perfectly 

 glabrous, not peltate, thickness, venation and shape approaching that of mature leaves. 



E. hcematoxylon Maiden. 



14. (Ref. No. 922), " Mountain Gum," Jarrahwood, Busselton, W.A. (Forest Ranger W. Donovan, 



through Department of Woods and Forests, Perth, W.A.). Seedling with hypocotyl, one pair 

 of cotyledon leaves and one pair of very young first leaves. Sown 19th February, 1914; drawn 

 13th March, 1914. 



No. 108 from Jarrahwood, Busselton, W.A. (F. Stoward) is the same as No. 14 above. 



15. (Same particulars as No. 14.) Underside of cotyledon leaves purple. Seedling with large cotyledon 



leaves and three pairs of first leaves and three pairs of first leaves much smaller and with much 

 shorter petioles than the cotyledon leaves. 



No. 15 was sown on the same day as No. 14, and diawn on the same day. 



Ref. No. 886, E. hcematoxylon, from the same source, had been previously sown on 18th 

 July, 1913, and drawn 27th November, 1913, as a sturdy seedling of 25 cm., and therefore too 

 large for reproduction at present. The largest leaf is 9 cm. by 5 cm. broad. The seedling is just 

 beginning to get out of the opposite-leaved stage, and the petioles of both cotyledons and first 

 leaves are about 1 cm. long. All the leaves are peltate except the final one depicted. Hairs on 

 the rachises, petioles, edges of the leaves and on the principal veins, diminishing in number, as 

 ususal, as growth proceeds. 



This species has, under the numbers X6 (drawing and photograph) and 108 (drawing) been 

 practically grown on to the mature-leaf stage. 



