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The saplings of E. obliqua have somewhat large, very unequal-sided leaves, broadly lanceolar, or 

 even cordate, and always attenuated, thus being, as I have pointed out, distinguished from E. capitellata, 

 whose sapling leaves are not attenuated. 



3. A Cycle of Intermediate Leaves. 



Let us take the actual examples of intermediate leaves in two species; this 

 will enable us to better grasp the subject. 



1. Range of leaves hi E. capitellata. It would be very desirable to profusely 

 figure complete series of intermediate leaves of all species, but this is not practicable 

 in the present state of our finances. Besides showing the great diversity of leaves, the 

 present drawings (see Plates 270 and 271), of E. capitellata, and notes concerning it 

 and E. agglomerata, will incidentally serve to show the diversity of the leaves of two 

 species until recently looked upon as identical. 



E. capitellata Sm., corner of Pittwater and Spit Roads, 8 or 9 miles north-east of 

 Gordon Railway Station, Sydney. 



A. Main shoot or sucker close to the ground. Individual leaves are described as 

 follows, under numbers : — 



1. Sessile, orbicular-cordate, obtuse, venulose on both surfaces, paler 



beneath ; not stellate, 8 cm. by 9 cm. 



2. Shortly petiolate, ovate, venulose, as in (1); 10 cm. by 8 cm. 



b. From a side branch of a shoot or sucker. 



3. Sessile, opposite, cordate-acute, slightly rough on both surfaces, faintly 



venulose, 5 cm. by 4| cm. Stems rough. 



4. Petiolate, alternate, elliptical, acute, Q\ cm. by 4| cm. 



5. Petiolate, alternate, obliquely lanceolate, paler beneath, darker above, 



venulose ; 8^ by 4 cm. 



c. Growth from a plant 5 feet high. Still shoot or sucker growth. 



6. Petiolate, alternate, obliquely lanceolate, paler beneath, venulose, the 



intramarginal nerve distant from the edge ; 10| by 4-J cm. 



7. Petiolate, alternate, broadly and obliquely lanceolate, venulose, 



intramarginal nerve distant from the edge; 12^ by 8h cm. 



8. Petiolate and very broadly obliquely lanceolate, venulose, intra- 



marginal nerve fully 1 cm. from the edge ; 19 by 10-J- cm. 



(Most of the other leaves on c. approximate to No. 7.) 



