4,12 



RANGE. 



Confined to Western Australia, so far as we know at present. Found at 

 Bendering, on loam flats, with. Melaleuca uncinata (C. A. Gardner, No. 1909). Bendering 

 is on the railway line from Narrogin to Naremburn, and about 120 miles east of Perth. 



AFFINITIES. 



1. With E. erythronema Turcz., depicted in Part XXII, p. 23 (Crit. Rev.) — 

 from which it differs in the white filaments, in the more cylindrical, somewhat 

 thin, smooth fruits, and in the shape of the calyx-tube, which is not expanded at the 

 top as is the case with E. erythronema ; and also in the somewhat obscure disc, as against 

 the conspicuous disc of E. erythronema. The fruit of E. erythronema is broadly turbinate 

 and crowned by a broad, sharp disc, and with the valves of the capsule protruding well 

 beyond it. In E. cylindriflora the disc is obscure and the valves are well enclosed in 

 the capsule, and they do not protrude beyond the small disc. The anthers o 1 

 E. cylindriflora appear to differ from those of E. erythronema; they are more emarginate 

 and the dorsal gland is more attenuated. The only juvenile leaves we have seen of 

 E. erythronema are from a cultivated plant, and they are narrower and smaller than 

 those of E. cylindriflora. 



2. With E. eremophila Maiden. 



The shape of the fruits is similar in both species, but those of E. eremophila are 

 thicker and the staminal ring which forms the disc is much larger ; it sometimes extends 

 over the top of the fruit. The fruits of E. cylindriflora are thin and the staminal ring 

 very narrow. 



