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Sterile seeds glossy, light to dark reddish-brown, mostly narrow, straight or 

 curved, somewhat clavate, angular, 1-2 mm. long, very numerous. Stony Creek, 

 South Gippsland, Victoria (P. R. H. St. John, February, 1919). 



E. cinerea (as pulverulenta)'. 



" Sterile seeds numerous, much narrower and mostly shorter than the fertile seeds, the latter not 

 sharply angular, all without any appendage." (" Eucalyptographia/' figs. 9 and 10.) 



Fertile seeds rather dull, dark brown, lA-2 mm. long, 1 mm. broad, oblong to 

 somewhat orbicular, and somewhat angular, thin, concave on the inner face, or the 

 depression surrounding the hilum rather large, wrinkled and minutely striate on the 

 back. Hilum ventral, small, lighter in colour than the thin brown testa. 



Sterile seeds light to dark reddish-brown, the majority very narrow, straight 

 or curved, usually angular and scarcely longer than the fertile seeds, very brittle. 

 Parish Nundialla, county Camden (per Forestry Commission, 1919). 



E. nitens. 



Fertile seeds rather dull, dark brown, 1^-2 mm. loug, 1 to a little over 1 mm. 

 broad, ovate to oblong, a few nearly orbicular, and oblicmely triangular, with a rather 

 acute termination, compressed, more or less wrinkled on both surfaces, and minutely 

 somewhat scurfy, so that the outer margin is somewhat rough. Hilum ventral, more 

 or less conspicuous, small, ovate, the depression shallow, and as long as the inner face 

 of the seed; testa thin. 



Sterile seeds glossy, very small, polymorphic, the narrow ones slightly more 

 numerous than the small broad ones. Parish Oronmear, county Murray (Forest Guard 

 Blacket, per W. A. W. de Beuzeville, March, 1921). 



(e) Densely scurfy and fringed. 



Fertile seeds dark brown to jet black, 2-3-J- mm. long, somewhat stellate to 

 broadly compressed pyramidal, usually with 2-5 radiating ridges, the whole surface 

 minutely but densely scurfy, the margins fringed. 



E. canaliculata. E. punctata. 



E. cosmophylla. E. Shiressii. 



E. pv.rnila (less angular than the 



four preceding species). 



