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Sterile seeds glossy, light yellowish-brown, polymorphic, the majority narrow, 

 curved, shorter than the fertile seeds. 



Differing from E. melliodora in the small sterile seeds, and in the finer striae of the 

 fertile seeds. On the whole, the seeds of both species are very similar. Koondrook 

 State Forest, No. 625 (Forest Guard McCormick). 



E. melliodora. 



" Seeds very small, without any expanding membrane." (" Eucalyptographia," fig. 9.) 



Fertile seeds rather dull, light to dark brown, 1 to barely 1^ mm. long, often 

 less than 1 mm. broad, thickish, ovate to nearly orbicular, the more irregular-shaped 

 ones with obtuse angles, flatfish to slightly concave, the back convex and minutely 

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

 the depression surrounding it obscure or elongated according to the thickness of the 

 seed. 



Sterile seeds glossy, light reddish-brown, very variable, the majority narrow, 

 subulate, often as long as the fertile seed. 



Smaller and less acute than E. populifolia. Graftal (J. L. Boorman, 1917). 

 E. odorata. 



" Seeds very small, without any appendage, the sterile seeds not very narrow." (" Eucalyptographia," 

 figs. 9 and 10.) 



Fertile seeds rather dull, light to dark brown, plump, § to slightly more than 

 1 mm. long, f to 1 mm. broad, somewhat orbicular, D-shaped to somewhat triangular, 

 with rounded angles, minutely striate longitudinally or transverse, according to the 

 shape. Hilum ventral, very small, usually inserted in a very narrow depression ; testa 

 thin. 



Sterile seeds glossy, light to dark brown, polymorphic, the majority broad, much 

 smaller than the fertile seeds. Belair, Mount Lofty Ranges, South Australia (Walter 

 Gill). 



E. odorata var. calcicultrix. 



Fertile seeds rather dull, dark-brown, compressed or plump, f to 1 mm. long and 

 about as broad, ovate to somewhat orbicular and slightly angular, especially on the 

 face, a few D-shaped and also obtusely triangular, all minutely striate longitudinally, 

 the striae moderately distinct. Hilum ventral, rather small, raised, or in a slight shallow, 

 usually small, depression; testa thin. 



Sterile seeds glossy, light to reddish-brown, oblong, triangular to clavate subulate, 

 the narrow ones about as numerous as the broad ones, and many fully 1 mm. long, a 

 few 1 J mm. long. 



