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E. Macarthuri. 



Fertile seeds shiny, dark brown to black, 1^—2 mm. long, 1-2 mm. broad, 

 compressed, slightly angular, ovate, oblong to somewhat triangular, the face usually 

 with 1-4 faint ridges, extending from the hilum to the edge, wrinkled and more or less 

 pitted on the back, the whole surface infested with a minute, dark, scurfy, deciduous 

 substance, which is somewhat fringe-like on the margin. Hilum ventral, large, paler 

 than the thin testa. 



Sterile seeds glossy, reddish-brown, the majority narrow-subulate to clavate, 

 quadrangular, 1|-2J mm. long, the broad ones shell-like to cubiform. 



More angular than E. goniocalyx, and slightly smaller. Berrima (J. L. Boorman, 

 1918). 



E. Burnti. 



Fertile seeds rather dull, dark brown, a little over 2 mm. long, 1 to slightly more 

 than 1 mm. broad, ovate to oblong, somewhat compressed, with slightly raised, more 

 or less radial ridges, the outer edge minutely fringed, the back minutely pitted and 

 slightly wrinkled. Hilum ventral, ovate to orbicular, rather large, whitish, the depression 

 surrounding it also large ; testa thin. 



Sterile seeds glossy, reddish-brown, the majority very narrow, straight or curved, 

 about 1-|- mm. long. Acacia Creek, Macpherson Bange (W. Dunn, May, 1905). 



E. viminalis. 



c; Sterile seeds much narrower than the fertile seeds, all without any appendage." (" Eucalypto- 

 graphia," figs. 9 and 10.) 



Fertile seeds dull or slightly glossy, dark brown, l|-2 mm. long, about 1 mm. 

 broad, compressed, ovate, oblong, somewhat angular, some with a few faint radial 

 ridges, wrinkled and minutely scurfy all over, the edge sometimes with a rudimentary 

 fringe. Hilum ventral, ovate, rather large, the shallow depression surrounding it 

 usually elongated ; testa thin. 



Sterile seeds glossy, reddish-brown, the majority narrow, awl-shaped and some- 

 what clavate, straight or curved, a few as long as the fertile seeds. Manila n (J. L. 

 Boorman, 1917). 



E. Kitsoniana. 



Fertile seeds rather dull, dark -brown, 1^-about 2 mm. long, 1 mm. broad, very 

 irregular in outline, reniform, ovate, oblong to somewhat triangular, plump or thin, 

 the latter concave, with a broad depression surrounding the hilum, much wrinkled, 

 the back finely striate. Hilum ventral, orbicular to ovate, very small, testa very 

 thin. 



