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Fertile seeds ratter dull, light to dark brown, 1 to 1 1 mm. long, 1 mm. broad, rather 

 plump, ovate, oblong to orbicular, a few somewhat rounded triangular, usually with 

 broad, shallow pits or wrinkles on both sides, minutely striate on the back. Hilum 

 ventral very small, the depression surrounding it sometimes extending over the face 

 of the seed, but in the majority of cases it is small and shallow ; testa thin. 



Sterile seeds glossy, dark reddish-brown, usually curved and angular, the small 

 broad ones more numerous than the narrow awl-shaped ones, the latter sometimes 

 li mm. long. (Near E.sideroxyhn.) Parramatta River, Parramatta (W. F. Blakely and 

 D. W. C. Shiress, June, 1919). 



E. siderophloia var. glauca. 



Fertile seeds rather dull, dark-brown, 1 to lj mm. long, 1 mm. broad, ovate to 

 somewhat obtusely triangular, more or less compressed, the back minutely striate 

 longitudinally. Hilum ventral, very small, darker than the thin testa, the depression 

 surrounding it usuallv small and shallow. 



Sterile seeds glossy, Kght to dark reddish-brown, polymorphic, many of the narrow 

 ones curved, about 1 mm. long, scarcely as numerous as the thin, angular broad ones. 



Scarcely differing from the typical form. Dubbo (J. L. Boorman). 



E. Dawsoi 



Fertile seeds rather dull, light brown, 1 to lh mm. long, about 1 mm. broad, 

 ovate to nearly orbicular, a few oblong, all compressed, flat or concave, minutely 

 longitudinally striate on the back. Hilum ventral, small, paler than the thin testa,' 

 the depression surrounding it sometimes large and elor gated. 



Sterile seeds glossy, dark reddish-brown, more or less cubiform and about half 

 the size of the fertile seeds. 



Differing from E. leucoxylon in the narrow and more acute fertile seeds and 

 in the broad sterile seeds. Merindee (A. Murphy, 191? ). 



E. pohjanthemos. 

 " Seeds without any appendage." (" Eucalyptographia," fig3. 8 and 9.) 



Fertile seeds glossy, light to dark brown, 1 to \\ mm. long, about 1 mm. broad, 

 ovate to somewhat orbicular, thickish, slightly angular, minutely striate longitudinally 

 on the back. Hilurn ventral rather small, paler than the thin testa, the depression 

 surrounding it very shallow. 



Sterile seeds glossy, deep reddish-brown, very variable in shape, the narrow 

 cn3s as long as the fertile seeds, and nearly as numerous as the broad, angular ones- 

 Bumberry (J. L. Boorman, 1916). 



