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228. E. eximia Schauer. 



Petiolate, pale on the underside, sometimes perfoliate, in its early stage with 

 the branchlets, midribs and other parts of the leaves plentifully besprinkled with 

 chocolate-brown stellate hairs. At an early stage the leaf ovate, but later becoming 

 lanceolate or broad-lanceolate, with or with not an auriculate or cordate base. Figs. 

 la, 16, 3a, 36, 3c, 3d, Plate 172. 



162. E.exserta F.v.M. 



Linear-lanceolate or strap-shaped, about 1 cm. broad (or less) and up to 20 cm. 

 long and less, flexuous, apex not rigid. Equally green on both sides. Venation obvious 

 under a low power, when the venation is seen to be reticulate, and the intramarginal 

 vein distinct from the edge, considering the narrowness of the leaf. Fig. 6, Plate 132. 



197. E. ferruginea Schau. 



Althou b h I have labelled figure 4a, Plate 159, as " mature," T think it would 

 be more correctly described as " juvenile." The leaves are brown (perhaps all through 

 life) owing to the presence of short brown hairs. The juvenile leaves are broadly 

 lanceolate, cordate at the base, blunt at the apex. They are rather large, that depicted 

 above, before drying being about 18 cm. long and half that in width. The secondary 

 veins looped or curved, and make an approximate angle of 50 to 60 degrees with the 

 midrib. Fig. 4a, Plate 159. 



236. E. ficifolia F.v.M. 

 Petiolate, very thin, pale on the underside, very broadly lanceolate, undulate 

 to puckered on one half of a lamina, the intramarginal vein usually remote from the 

 margin, secondary veins slightly curved, and at an angle of about 50 to 60 degrees 

 with the midrib. 



5. E. foecunda Schau. 



Thin, very glaucous, petiolate, slightly crenate to undulate, with base nearly 

 straight and little tendency to be cordate. Nearly orbicular, the intramarginal vein 

 far from the edge, the secondary veins forming an angle of about 30 to 45 degrees 

 from the midrib. Fig. 2, Plate 24. 



224. E. Foelscheana F.v.M. 



I have measured a juvenile leaf 15 inches long by 11 inches, and was informed 

 that larger ones could have been collected. They are so thick and so rigid that a single 

 leaf makes an excellent fan, with a rigid petiole, say 6 cm. long and -6 in. diameter 



