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Sterile seeds glossy, light brown, tlie majority very narrow, wrinkled, curved 

 and channelled, sometimes as long as the fertile seeds. 



Smaller than E. rubida and E. maculosa. Wallerawang (J. L. Boorman, 1917). 



E. neglecta. 



Fertile seeds rather dull, light brown, f to sometimes slightly over 1 mm. long, 

 -o- to -f mm. broad, ovate, acute, or obliquely ovate, slightly compressed, wrinkled on 

 both sides, the depression surrounding the pale hilum rather broad. Hilum ventral; 

 testa thin. 



Sterile seeds glossy, a little paler than the fertile seeds, polymorphic, many thin 

 and shell-like, a few r of the narrowest nearly as long as the fertile seeds. 



Slightly smaller than E. aggregates and differing also from it in the sterile seeds. 

 Spring Creek. Cobungra, Victoria (H. B. Williamson, October, 1922). 



E. parvifolia. 



Fertile seeds dark brown to nearly black, somewhat dull, 1-1-| mm. long, 1 mm. 

 broad, plump, ovate to nearly orbicular, with slightly acute angles, the inner face with 

 a somewhat broad depression, the back with 2-5 shallow depressions. Hilum ventral, 

 small, orbicular, usually central, paler than the testa, which is very thin, the depression 

 small or large. 



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Sterile seeds light to dark reddish-browm, very numerous, angular and poly- 

 morphic, the majority not half the length of the fertile seeds. 



Differing from E. neglecta in the more numerous shallow pits. Nimmitabel 

 (J. L. Boorman, 1916). 



E. Kruseana. 



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

 to somewhat orbicular, or perhaps more rhomboidal, plump or compressed, and slightly 

 concave, wrinkled on both sides, back very finely striate, hilum ventral, very small, the 

 depression surrounding it sometimes rather deep, and moderately broad ; testa thin. 



Sterile seeds very glossy, pale to deep reddish -brown, polymorphic, the narrowest 

 one nearly as long as the fertile seeds, and the broad ones less than half. 



Slightly thicker than E. neglecta. Transcontinental Railway Survey, South 

 Australia (H. Deane. May. 1909). 



