305 



Leaves lanceolate, petiolate. inclined to be trinerved, red midrib, edges and main 

 nerves (Stanthorpe. 76). 



1st leaves ovate, petiolate. undersurface pale green. Leaves later, decussate, 

 ovate, slightly undulate, petiolate. undersurface green, red edges and venation 

 (Stanthorpe. 70). 



E. Deanei. 



1st leaves linear, undersurface tinted red (Tenterlield). 



Series 24.— Stems quadrangular. 



E. rudis. E. diversicolor. 



E. Guilfoylei. 



General Appearance.- Stems quadrangular, usually edged with reddish or bright 

 purple-brown lines. Young plants slender, the opposite character of the leaves well 

 marked for at least six to twelve pairs. Leaves smallish, spathulate to lanceolate, 

 all distinctly petiolate. As the plants approach the intermediate leaved stage the leaves 

 become broeid and markedly uudulate, with scarcely prominent veins, and they retain 

 a light green colour throughout. 



The plants bear a very striking resemblance to (J roup 23, the E. dealbata- 

 tereticornis group, but the opposite character appears to be carried a little further, 

 and the venation is also much finer, especially in E. Guilfoylei, which appears to have 

 some connection with Series 26. 



(1) Hypocotyl. 



E. rudis. short to medium. 

 E. diversicolor, long. 

 E. Guilfoylei. very long. 



(la) Hypocotyl (Miss Flockton). 



/:. rudis, short, smooth, red (Waroona) ; terete, red (Woorooloo). 

 E. diversicolor. long, terete, but inclined to be angular, and more so in the 

 epicotyl (W.A.); red (Denmark, W.A.). 



E. Guilfoylei, terete, red, spindly, thickening a little at the base (A Murphy, 120); 

 red, thickening at the base (Denmark) ; long crimson, the stem shading paler upwards, 

 thickens towards the root (S. W. Jackson). 



(2) ( Cotyledons. 



E. rudis, "inarginate, short, sometimes long, tapering. 



E. diversicolor , large, slightly emarginate to unequally lobed, very long, tapering. 



E. Guilfoylei, emarginate, long, slightly tapering, trinerved. 



