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(3) Stem (Miss Flockton). 



E. tessellaris, shaded purplish red, terete, with a few scattered glandular hairs. 

 Epicotyl and young growth with prominent warty glands (Rookhanipton). 



E. grandifolia, epicotyl long, slight, and covered with transparent glandular 

 processes (Stapleton). 



(4) 1st Pair of Leaves (Petiole, shape, vestiture). 



E. Spenceriana, very short or absent, linear, tapering, glaborus. 



E. tessellaris, short, ovate, glabrous. 



E. grandifolia. short, elliptical, slightly hairy. 



(5) Subsequent Pairs of Leaves (Number, petiole, shape, vestiture). 

 E. Spenceriana, eight or more, linear-lanceolate, glabrous. 



E. tessellaris, indefinite, lanceolate to linear-lanceolate, glabrous. 

 E. grandifolia, four, ovate-lanceolate, hairy. 



(6) Intermediate Leaves. 

 Not seen. 



(6a) (Miss Flockton). 



E. tessellaris. 



1st leaves ovate to ovate-lanceolate, undersurface paler green (Rockhampton). 



Series 2e.— Sessile, ovate to lanceolate. 



E. diversifolia. E. Jacksoni. 



E. pachyloma. E. patens. 



E. megacarpa. 



(The sessile character connects this series with the E. amygdalina series. 



Small cotyledons, No. 3f.) 



General Appearance. — Leaves short and broad, sessile to slightly stem-clasping, 

 oblong, ovate to elliptical lanceolate, very faintly stellate or quite glabrous, light to 

 dark green, or moss green, veins moderately distinct. Stems green or reddish. 



The proposed grouping of certain Western Austraban (chiefly) species is only a 



tentative one, as the general characters are not constant throughout the series. Perhaps 



E. pachyloma should be placed nearer E. alpina, and E. Jacksoni and E. patens made 



into a separate series. The only characters that they are constant in is that they 



are sessile and broad. But we aie dealing with but few species. 



