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AFFINITIES. 



1. With E. Speneeriana Maiden. See Part XXXVIII, p. 206, Plate 156. 



Both species are Boxes, with a hard, more or less deeply furrowed bark, but the 

 colour of the timber of E. microneura is unknown, while that of E. Speneeriana is a dark 

 red. The leaves of both species are very much alike as regards venation and texture, 

 but the leaves of E. Speneeriana are not glaucous, and other characters, such as the 

 anthers and the fruit, are also dissimilar to those of E. microneura. 



2. With E. microtheea F.v.M., figured in Part XI, p. 53, Plate 52. 



This is also a Box with a wide northern range, and in cortical characters it 

 resembles E. microneura and E. Speneeriana, which is also a northern species. The 

 leaves of E. microtheea, like those of E. microneura, are more or less glaucous, but the 

 venation is coarser in the former, and the fruits are small and very different to those 

 of E. microneura. 



3. With E. Whitei, n.sp. 



Some of the fruits of E. Whitei resemble those of E. microneura, and the leaves 

 of both arc more or less glaucous. E. Whitei is, however, an Ironbark, and not only 

 does it differ from E. microneura in the bark, but also in buds and anthers, as well as 

 in the venation and texture of the leaves. Both species are found at no great distance 

 from each other, and they may eventually be found in close association. 



