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(3) Stem (Miss Flockton). 



E. oligantha, glaucous white, tinted pink and getting more and more covered 

 with prominent wartv glands (Kimberleys). 



E. Stuartiana, terete, rather prominent glands, pink or red shading up to pale 

 opaque green (Mudgee): shaded red up to the cotyledons, slightly warty (Tarana). 



E. angophoroides, terete, smooth, with prominent glands becoming more pro- 

 nounced as the plant gets older, pink a little way up (Wyndham). 



E. Dunnii, terete, glaucous, covered with rather prominent warty glands (Acacia 

 Creek, No. 1); red shade (No. 2). 



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



E. oligantha. petiolate, narrow-lanceolate, glabrous. 



E. Stuartiana, petiolate, narrow-lanceolate: rachis glandular. 



E. angophoroides, petiolate, narrow or linear-lanceolate, glabrous. 



E. Dunnii, petiolate, narrow or linear-lanceolate ; rachis slightly glandular. 



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



E. oligantha. three, lanceolate, nearly sessile, glabrous, but glaucous. 



E. Stuartiana, four, lanceolate to ovate-lanceolate, nearly sessile, glabrous, but 

 glaucous. 



E. angophoroides. rive, narrow-lanceolate to nearly cordate-lanceolate, nearly 

 sessile, glabrous, green, scarcely glaucous. 



E. Dunnii, four, lanceolate to cordate-lanceolate, slightly undulate, very shortly 

 petiolate, glabrous, light green to glaucous. 



(6) Intermediate Leaves. 



E. oligantha, broad-cordate, acute, slightly undulate or the margins crenulate, 

 glaucous, the largest 21 by 2| cm., sessile; stem pink to glaucous. 



E. Stuartiana, cordate, rather firm, mucronate, glaucous, but not quite so 

 white as E. oligantha, sessile. 2\ by 2 cm. ; stem glandular, green. 



E. angophoroides. cordate, slightly undulate, sessile, veins somewhat prominent, 

 light glaucous-green; at l\ inches (19 cm.) 3 by 2 cm. (not far enough advanced). 



E. Dunnii, cordate-lanceolate, undulate, shortly petiolate, veins somewhat 

 prominent, glaucous, blotched with red ; stem glaucous, shaded pink. 



(fia) (Miss Flockton). 



E. oligantha. 



1st leaves linear, glaucous, undersurface mauve tint. 1st alternate leaves cordate, 

 sessile, glaucous, green (Kimberleys). 



