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shoulders with a small terminal gland between them. Style somewhat persistent, 

 slender, spirally twisted at the top, developing with the capsule and eventually splitting 

 at the base into three needle-like divisions when the capsule ripens. Floral disc forming 

 a dark Hning around the inside of the calyx-tube and apparently free from the top of 

 the ovary. 



Fruit shortly campanulate to semi-ovate, truncate, 3-4 mm. long, 4 mm. in. 

 diameter at the top, valves three with very fine points protruding well beyond the rim 

 of the fruit. Seeds not seen. Capsular disc slightly thickened, usually exceeding the 

 rim of the calycine ring. 



RANGE. 



Only known at present from Western Australia, at Harrismith, on rises, in 

 sandy or sandy-gravelly soil (C. A. Gardner, No. 2,113, 6th March, 1924). 



AFFINITIES. 



1. With E. uncinata Turcz., described in Part XIV, p. 143, and Part LVI, p. 262. 

 This proposed new species appears to be its closest affinity, especially in the shape 



of the juvenile leaves, but those of E. uncinata are much thicker and greener. The 

 adult leaves are also thicker and more rigid (often very rigid), while the buds and 

 fruits are sessile, and more numerous in the umbel, and also quite different in shape. 

 The white juvenile leaves appear to be a distinctive feature of E. albida. They 

 are as white as those of E. globulus and E. rubida. 



2. With E. leptophylla F.v.M., figured in Part LVI, p. 259. 



It seems to have the general appearance of this species, but the mature leaves 

 are broader and less rigid, while the juvenile leaves are very glaucous and twice as 

 broad as those of E. leptophylla. The buds and fruits are also somewhat similar in both 

 species; they are pedicellate, but the operculum of E. leptophylla is nearly always more 

 or less rostrate, and the fruit is thick, with scarcely exserted valves. 



3. With E. angusta Maiden, described in Part LVI, p. 265. 



The mature leaves of both species are very much alike, but those of E. angusta 

 are thicker and more rigid. Both species are also closely allied in the anthers, but the 

 buds and fruits of E. angusta are coarser and different in shape to those of E. albida, 

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