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The affinities are with E. conglobata and E. salubris. E. conglobata is a shrubby 

 species, or a Mallee with a silvery-yellow or grey bark, and much larger leaves and smaller 

 flowers of a different shape. It has a closer affinity to E. salubris and E. campaspe, 

 differing from the former in its wider fruits and buds, and from the latter in its total 

 absence of glaucousness, and from both in the very remarkable broad wings of the buds 

 and fruit. Locally it is looked upon as a " Gimlet." 



With some good specimens, Mr. C. A. Gardner sent me the following note : — 



" A tall shrub, or more frequently a small tree of 15-26 feet, with a slender trunk 

 of 6-8 feet in height and 6 inches diameter, with erect branches and the usual obconical 

 shape of Goldfields trees. Bark exactly like that of E. salubris, but the trunk not quite 

 so fluted ; the colour, thickness and texture otherwise the same as that of E. salubris. 

 Leaves dark green along the flattened top of the tree, fruits fairly densely distributed 

 on the branchlets below the leaves. Flowers greenish-yellow. Fruits usually 4-6 

 valved." Salmon Gums, 60 miles north of Esperance, in open forest of Salmon Gum 

 (E. salmonopliloia), E. cremopliloia, and E. Flocktonice (Mallee), (C. A. Gardner, No. 

 2226, May, 1924). 



The calyx and operculum are sharply winged. The fruit larger than that 

 figured in the present work, Part XVI, Plate 71. See additional figures in Plate 283. 



