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Var. pedicellata, Maiden and Blakely, n. var. 



With distinct pedicels, of which the specimen figured at 2c, Plate 38, Osier's Creek 

 Victoria (A. W. Howitt) may be taken as the type. 



1. Seedling, minutely hispid with stellate hairs. The first four pairs' of leaves 

 opposite, shortly petiolate, the margins minutely denticulate, lanceolate, 3-1 cm. long, 

 10-113 mm. broad. Intermediate leaf elliptical, oblique, 12 cm. long, 9 cm. broad, 

 Adult leaves broadly lanceolate to obliquely lanceolate, 10-12 cm. long, 3-| to 6 cm. broad. 

 Buds clavate, pedicellate, rugose. Fruit pedicellate, globular, with short protruding 

 valves, 12-14 mm. long, 8-10 mm. broad. Osier's Creek, Gippsland (A. W. Howitt)., 



Trees of var. pedicellata are usually larger than the typical E. Baxteri, some of which 

 according to Mr. D. W. C. Shiress, reach a height of 70 feet and produce a much better 

 timber, probably equal to that of E. Mueller' aim and its congeners. 



2. Buds elongated, pedicellate, operculum verrucose ; fruits pedicellate, depressed 

 globular. Trees 60-70 feet high. Mount Toolebewong, Healfsville district, 34 miles 

 E.N.E. from Melbourne (D. W. C. Shiress, November, 1925). 



3. Seedlings the same as No. 1. Wandin Yallock (A. W." Howitt). 



4. Seedlings and intermediate leaves the same as No. 1. King Parrot Creek 

 (A. W. Howitt). 



5. With the same characters as No. 1, but the fruits larger with longer pedicels 

 and also with a smaller orifice. Drouin West (A. W. Howitt). 



6. Leaves broadly lanceolate, oblique ; fruit g^bose, pedicellate. Mount Mound 

 A. W. Howitt). 



7. Leaves large, strongely veined, narrow to broad lanceolate, strongly oblique; 

 buds clavate, contracted towards the base or the base slightly enlarged ; fruit globular, 

 shortly pedicellate, the valves small. Dagholm (A. W. Howitt). 



8. Leaves narrow to broad lanceolate, rather thick; fruit pedicellate, globular, 

 rather small with small, scarcely protruding valves. Darlimula, S. Gippsland (H. Deane, 

 March, 1897). 



9. Intermediate leaves broadly corda+e to broadly oblong, a few almost orbicular; 

 buds rather young, cylindrical, the opercula conical ; fruit globose to somewhat turbinate, 

 distinctly pedicellate. Boggy Creek, Buchan Boad (J.H.M.). 



10. Buds not seen ; calyx attenuated ; fruit globular to turbinate. Buchan 

 Road, East Gippsland (A. W. Howitt). 



