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CLXXXIX. E. clavigcra A. Cunn., var. Gilbertmsis 

 Maiden and Blakely n. var. 



See E. clavigera, Part XXXVII, p. 179, with Plate 152. 



" A tree of stunted, crooked growth, stem clean, or slightly scaly at base." Ridges, 

 Gilbert River, North Queensland (C. T. White, February, 1922.) 



The above are all the field notes available. 



The leaves are delicately petiolate, semi-peltate, thin, the same colour on both 

 sides, and both leaves and stems are covered with minute, white, stellate hairs. Leaves 

 opposite. The flowers are on short racemose steins, axillary. The fruits are thin, 

 oblong, slightly constricted, three-valved. 



AFFINITIES. 



1. With E. clavigera A. Cunn. 



This appears to differ from the typical E. clavigera in the smaller and narrower 

 petiolate and semi-peltate, minutely hispid or hispid-stellate leaves. In E. clavigera 

 the hairs are not stellate. The leaves are a different green, and thicker and larger. 

 The leaves of the form under consideration are so uniformly narrow that I am inclined 

 to think it is distinct from E. clavigera. This note is published in order that the plant 

 may be further searched for. The fruit, although small, does not differ materially from 

 E. clavigera. 



2. With E. ferruginea R.Br. 



It seems to be nearer to E. ferruginea in the vestiture, but it is white and more 

 setose, while the midrib is not compressed on both sides like that of E. ferruginea. 



3. With E. aspera F.v.M. 



The cordate character of the leaves seems to point in the direction of E. aspera, 

 but the fruits are different. 



The leaves of E. clavigera, E. ferruginea and E. aspera are sessile or very 

 shortly petiolate, so that it does not match any of these species in this respect. 



