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Sterile seeds glossy, pale brown, quadrangular to compressed; about half the 

 size of the fertile seeds. 



Somewhat similar in shape to E. microcorys, but differing in colour and in the 

 texture of the testa. Mataranka Station, Koper Eiver, Northern Territory (C. E. F, 

 Allen, No. 683). 



E. pruinosa, 



" Fertile seeds without any appendage, their testa not veined ; sterile seeds smaller, the majority 

 broad and short, some narrow and more elongated.'' (" Eucalvptographia," figs. 9 and 10.) 



Fertile seeds rather dull, pale to dark brown, If to nearly 2f mm. long, If mm. 

 broad, thin and more or less compressed, ovate, oblong to obtusely quadrangular, the 

 face sometimes concave, the back convex and minutely striate transversely, so as 

 to appear somewhat reticulate and scurfy. Hilum ventral, very small, ovate, scarcely 

 differing in colour from that of the thin testa, with or without a somewhat shallow 

 oblique depression, surrounding it. 



Sterile seeds glossy, light reddish-brown, polymorphic, the broad ones more 

 numerous than the narrow ones, tie latter sometimes as long as the fertile seeds. 



Scarcely differing from E, leptopMeba. Armstrong Eiver. North Queensland, 

 (E J. Winters). 



E. leptopMeba. 



Seeds dark brown, bluntly triangular to thick cuneate and furrowed, about 1 line 

 long. 



Fertile seeds rather dull, light brown, 3 mm. long, nearly 2 mm. broad, ovate 

 to obliquely ovate, obtuse or acute, thin, concave on the inner face, minutely transversely 

 striate. Hilum ventral, small, ovate, slightly raised, or surrounded by two or three 

 shallow pits, usually lighter in colour than the thin testa. 



Sterile seeds glossy, light to dark reddish -brown, polymorphic, a few of the 

 narrow ones as long as the fertile seeds; these arc usually subulate to clavate, straight 

 or curved. Stannary Hills, North Queensland (Dr. T. L, Bancroft, September, 1909). 



