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E. Shiressii. 



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

 somewhat stellate on the face with rather acute angles, to compressed pyramidal, a few 

 ovate, acute, without ridges ; radial ridges 3-7, the margin somewhat prominently 

 fringed, the surface infested with a minute, dark, scurfy, deciduous substance. Hilum 

 ventral, small, often very indistinct, paler than the thin testa. 



Sterile seeds glossy, the subulate or clavate ones reddish -brown, as long as the 

 fertile seeds, the broad ones light brown, cubiform, about 1 mm. long. 



Somewhat more angular and stellate than E. punctata. Near the 16-mile post, 

 Galston-road, 2 miles north of Hornsby (W. F. Blakely and D. W. C. Shiress, March, 

 1919). 



E. pumila. 



Fertile seeds shiny, dark brown to black, l|-2j mm. long, 1-lJ mm. broad, 

 somewhat compressed pyramidal, with two or three slight ridges extending from the 

 hilum to the fringed margin, or ovate acute without any ridges, a few more or less 

 triangular, back convexed, minutely scurfy, the substance deciduous. Hilum ventral, 

 very small, sometimes in the centre of a large shallow depression ; testa thin. 



Sterile seeds glossy, the clavate or subulate ones reddish-brown, l|-2 mm. long, 

 the broad, more or less compressed, ones light to dark brown, about 1 mm. long and 

 broad, a few smaller. 



More ovate and less angular than E. punctata, also less scurfy. Pokolbin (R. H. 

 Cambage, No. 1506). 



(d) Slightly scurfy and minutely fringed. Hilum ventral. 



Fertile seeds light brown, l|-2 mm. long, orbicular to compressed pyramidal, 

 with 3-5 radiating ridges. 



E. botryoides. 

 E. saligna. 



E. botryoides. 



" Seeds all without appendage, the sterile much narrower than the fertile seeds." (" Eucalypto- 

 graphia," figs. 9 and 10.) 



Fertile seeds rather dull, pale-brown, If- 2 mm. long, 1-lJ mm. broad, somewhat 

 compressed pyramidal, oblong to ovate, usually with 3-5 slightly acute ridges extending 

 from the hilum to the minutely fringed margin, the back slightly convex, sometimes 

 wrinkled, or with a few shallow, irregular depressions. Hilum ventral, small, testa 

 tfhin. 



