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(6) Compressed ovate to somewhat triangular or quadrangular, thickish. 

 E. ovata. E. Gunnii. 



(c) Orbicular to ovate, thickish. 



E. Lane-Poolci. E. unrinata. 



E. cruris. E. decipiens. 



E. Gillii. E. quadrangidata. 

 E. oleosa. 



(d) Ovate to ovate-oblong, moderately thick. 



E. doratoxylon. E. lepiophyUd. 



(a) Mostly compressed, ovate, acute. 



Fertile seeds 1-2-J- mm. long, mostly ovate, acute, moderately compressed, 

 minutely pitted rugose. Hilum ventral, usually surrounded by a broad, shallow 

 depression. 



E. Perriniana. E. aggregata. 



E. rubida. E. neglecta. 



E. scoparia. E. parvifolia. 



E. maculosa. E. Kruseana. 



E. ovata var. camphora. 



E. Perriniana. 



Fertile seeds shiny, dark brown to almost jet black, lj-2| mm. long, 1 mm. broad, 

 the majority oblong, a few somewhat triangular to ovate, all thin and wrinkled, the 

 back usually marked with a few shallow, irregular pits, the face more or less concave. 

 Hilum ventral, fairly large, with a distinct, shallow, somewhat minutely pitted rugose 

 depression surrounding it ; testa thin. 



Sterile seeds glossy, light brown to reddish brown, much wrinkled, curved, the 

 majority narrow, about 1^ mm. long, the broader ones sometimes shell-like. 



Differing from E. rubida in size and in the shape of their sterile seeds. The Dee, 

 Tasmania (J.H.M., February, 1918). 



E. rubida. 



Fertile seeds dull, dark brown, 1-|-2| mm. long, 1 mm. broad, acutely ovate, ovate- 

 oblong, to somewhat triangular, with rounded corners, a few somewhat orbicular, 

 compressed, slightly concave, wrinkled on the back, minutely pitteJ rugose on both 

 surfaces. Hilum ventral, very small, orbicular; testa thin, the depression rather 

 large and shallow. 

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