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

 E. gomplwcephala. one. lanceolate, somewhat obtuse, glabrous, light green. 

 E. redunca var. elata, one, lanceolate, obtuse, glabrous, glaucous. 

 E. Gardneri. one, linear lanceolate, glabrous, light green. 



(0) Intermediate Leaves. 



E. gomphocephala, ovate lanceolate, shortly acute, petiole long; at 11 in. (28 cm.), 

 6-5 cm. long. 4 cm. broad, venation prominent, intramarginal nerve distant from the 

 edge: at 17 in. (43 cm.), 5 cm. long. 3 cm. broad, distinctly triplinerved. and also at 

 28 in. (70 cm.), olive green, stem green. At 30 in. (75 cm.), high, leaves alternate, 

 lanceolate, thin, margins slightly crenulate. 5 cm. long, 2-5 cm. broad. Petioles slender, 

 about 1-5 cm. long. Some of the leaves are slightly concave and inclined to be boat- 

 shaped, and not unlike some peltate leaves of the Corymbosa?. Stems yellowish- 

 green. 



E. redunca var. elata, broad lanceolate-obtuse to lanceolate-acute, triplinerved, 

 petiole medium. At 1\ in. (10 cm.), 6 cm. long, 3-5 cm. broad, only the two distant 

 intramarginal nerves prominent and the midrib, which is a deep purple-brown as well 

 as the petiole; at 20 in. (50 cm.), ]0 cm. long, 4 cm. broad, light glaucous green. Stem 

 rich purple brown. 



E. Gardneri, lanceolate-acute, margins slightly undulate, petiole short, 4 cm. 

 long. 1-5 cm. broad, veins faint, olive-green tinged with glaucousness. Stem light 

 green. 



(6a) (Miss Flockton). 



E. gompJiocepJiala. 



1st leaves ovate alternate (W.A.). 



E. redunca var. elata. 



1st leaven linear and lanceolate, undersurface a little paler green. 1st alternate 

 leaves broadly lanceolate, dull whitish green (Baylup). 



1st leaves ovate lanceolate, glaucous (Kalgan Plains). 



E. redunca var. elata. 



1st leaves broadly ovate with midrib coloured red. 1st alternate leaves large, 

 ovate, with red midrib (W.A. 9). 



1st leaves linear, sometimes ovate, glaucous green. 1st alternate leaees narrow- 

 lanceolate (W.A. 5-06). 



E. Gardneri. 

 1st leaves narrow-lanceolate. Leaves lanceolate, shortly petiolate (Bendering). 



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