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11. Leaves narrow to broadly lanceolate; buds attenuated and very rugose 

 or somewhat verrucose, especially the operculum, 14mm. long. The buds are the 

 longest that we have seen of this variety. Fruit distinctly pedicellate, depressed globular 

 with rather strong valves. Naynook, Latrobe Valley (J. H. Simmonds, June, 1921). 



12. Seedlings slightly stellate and somewhat similar to those of Osier's Creek 

 (No. 1). The inte mediate leaves are also similar. Buds about half developed, clavate, 

 rugose, the operculum very blunt. Fruits pyriform, distinctly pedicellate. South-west 

 corner of Victoria, where it occupies the rising ground and the river margins, flats, 

 and extensive plain-lands in the counties of Dundas and Normanby (A. D. Hardy). 



The following three specimens are from the Wimmera : — 



13. Buds clavate, smooth or nearly so; fruit globular, slightly pedicellate. 

 Wimmera (F. Reader). 



14. Leaves narrow-lanceolate; buds clavate, slightly rugose; fruit pedicellate, 

 globose, with small protruding valves. Dimboola (J. Staer). 



15. Buds clavate, rugose ; fruits globular to pyriform, shortly pedicellate. Nhile 

 (J. Staer). 



AFFINITIES. 



1. With E. Blaxlandi Maiden and Cambage, from which it differs in the f ollowing 

 characters : — Seedling leaves broader and more sessile, both in the opposite and the 

 alternate stages. Intermediate leaves broader and thicker, somewhat resembling 

 those of E. capitellata. Adult leaves invariably broader and thicker. Buds often rugose, 

 more elongated and contracted in the middle, or the base more or less swollen. Calyx 

 usually longer. Fruit variable, ranging from almost globular, turbinate to pyriform 

 and from closely sessile to shortly pedicellate. It will be seen that the buds and fruits 

 of E. Baxteri have a greater range in morphological characters than those of E. Blaxlandi 

 As regards the fruits, attention has already been drawn to them. See the Mount Lofty 

 specimens, all from the same tree, figs, lb to If, Plate 38, and remarks thereon. There 

 is also a difference in the size of the trees of both species. According to J. G. Robertson's 

 field notes, E. Baxteri ranges from 6 to 30 feet high, and trees with pedicellate fruits 

 appear to be much higher than those with sessile fruits. From our own observations 

 E. Blaxlandi is never less than 30 feet high, and in some districts it reaches a height of 

 80-100 feet, 



2. With E. capitellata Sm. Both are coastal species and sometimes Mallee-like 

 in habit, which is due, no doubt, to the somewhat similar environmental conditio s 

 under which they grow. The seedling leaves of both species are somewhat alike, also 

 the adult leaves. The buds and fruits, however, are very dissimilar, and are the main 

 characters by which they are readily distinguished one from the other, 



