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Sterile seeds pale to deep reddish-brown and very glossy, the small broad ones 

 about half the size of the fertile seeds, the filiform ones 3-5 mm. long, slightly channelled, 

 not quite as numerous as the broad ones. 



Differing from E. crucis in the thinner seeds. Near Beenup, Western Australia 

 ;E. C. Lane-Poole, July, 1919). 



E. crucis. 



Fertile seeds light to dark brown, dull, l|— 2 mm. long, and nearly as broad, 

 ovate to orbicular, rather plump, slightly wrinkled, minutely striate on the back. 

 Hiluni ventral, very small, with or without a depression surrounding it; the testa thin. 

 albumen rather hard. 



Sterile seeds glossy, reddish-brown, the broad ones somewhat similar to the 

 tertile seeds, the narrow ones filiform, slightly clavate, 2-4 mm. long. 



In this species the narrow sterile seeds appear to be more numerous than the 

 broad ones. The percentage of fertile seeds is very low. Yorkrakine Rocks, Westonia, 

 "Western Australia (C. A. Gardner). 



E. Gillii. 



Fertile seeds shiny, greyish-brown, 2 mm. long, about 1 mm. broad, ovate to 

 elliptical, a few slightly somewhat triangular, somewhat compressed, the margins 

 sometimes faintly membranous, surface moderately smooth, with one or tAvo irregular 

 channels. Hilum ventral, ovate or elongated, darker than the thin testa, the depression 

 very shallow, small or sometimes as long as the face of the seed. 



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

 than the narrow ones, and always smaller than the fertile seeds, a few of the narrow 

 ones fully 3 mm. long. Broken Hill (E. C. Andrews, January, 1919). 



E. oleosa. 



' : Seeds without any appendage, the fertile broader than the sterile seeds." (" Eucalyptographia ; " 

 figs. 9 and 10.) 



Fertile seeds shiny, greyish-brown or mouse-coloured, 2 mm. long, 1 mm. broad, 

 ovate to obliquely ovate, the angles and edges obtuse, compressed, slightly wrinkled, 

 otherwise smooth, the back very minutely striate. Hilum ventral, orbicular, very 

 small, whitish, the depression very shallow and sometimes on one side of the hilum 

 only. 



Sterile seeds glossy, very angular, a few narrow and longer than the fertile seeds, 

 the majority about 1 mm. long. 



Differing from E. Gillii in being less angular and more obtuse. Cobar (J. L. 

 Boonnan, May, 1918). 



