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(1) Hypocotyl. 



E, nitida, medium. 



E. Mitchelliana, short, smooth. 



E. apiculata 



E. approximans > medium. 



E. Kybeanensis 



(la) Hypocotyl (Miss Flockton). 

 E. nitida, short, red (Tasmania). 



E. Mitchelliana, erect, terete, red, glabrous, up to 2-3 cm. long (original descrip- 

 tion) : short, terete, pink (Mount Buffalo). 



E. apiculata, inclined to be angular, red (Berrima). 



E. approximans, terete, smooth, red-brown. Tapering into the root, slightly 

 angular, purple (Barren Mountain). 



E. Kybeanensis, terete, red (Kybean). 



(2) Cotyledons (Petiole, taper). 

 E. nitida. short, tapering. 



E. Mitchelliana, short, tapering. 

 E. apiculata, medium, shghtly tapering. 

 E. approximans, medium, tapering. 

 E. Kybeanensis, short, tapering. 



(2a) Cotyledons (Undersurface, Miss Flockton). 

 E. nitida, sometimes tinted red (Tasmania). 

 E. Mitchelliana, pink or tinted red (two sowings). 

 E. apiculata, deep purple red. 

 E. approximans, red, purple (two sowings). 

 E. Kybeanensis, purple. 



(3) Stem (Miss Flockton). 



E. nitida, terete, becoming angular, covered with large, transparent, warty 

 glands (Mount Bischoff). 



E. apiculata, crimson, thickly covered with small, stellate, glandular warts or 

 processes (Berrima). 



E. approximans, a little flattened tinted red, and covered with warty glands, 

 papillose or slightly stellate (first sowing). Shade of purple, tubular, covered with 

 glandular warts (second sowing). 



E. Kybeanensis, terete, shaded red, covered with prominent glands and scaly 

 v Kybean). 



