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RANGE. 



It is confined to Western Australia so far as we know at present. No. 67 was 

 collected with James Drummond's 3rd Collection, which was made in a somewhat 

 indefinite part of the south of the then colony. I have not seen Maxwell's specimens, 

 which Bentham quotes under his E. redunca var. angustifolia. See Part XXXTV, p. 97. 



AFFINITIES. 



1. With E. spathulata Hook. 



This has been already seen by Bentham (B. Fl. hi, 253 ; quoted in the present 

 work, Part XXXIV, p. 98), but it has not the spathulate leaves of that species. 



2. With E. redunca Schauer. 



We have already seen that Bentham looks upon this as a narrow-leaved form of 

 E. redunca, and simply says " Leaves linear or linear-lanceolate." We have not good 

 fruiting specimens of E. xanthonema, but the obvious differences from E. redunca are 

 the thicker, paler, more falcate lanceolate leaves of the latter. 



In Part XXXIV, p. 97, while pointing out that E. redunca var. angustifolia is 

 not an entirely satisfactory variety, I quote some specimens from Cunderdin and near 

 Knutsford which should be further investigated, with complete material. They are 

 figured at Plate 140, figs. 6a, 6b, and may be referable to E. redunca. but it is not probable 

 that they belong to E. xanthonema. 



