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Flowers yellowish-white. Near Wagin, in gravelly soil. Fl. February -March." 

 9th February, 1922 (C. A. Gardner, No. 1,236, Forests Department of Western 

 Australia). Wagin is approximately 100 miles from the coast, and a 

 comparatively inland locality is new to me. Mr. Gardner says it is rather 

 common further south in the Gnowangerup district. 



South Australia. — See the localities already referred to. Following is an 

 additional note : — ■ 



" Port Lincoln is the home of this variety (eonglobata), and I hitherto understood it to be always a 

 shrubby form, but it attains the dignity of a medium-sized tree. At Boston Island the largest tree I saw 

 is 2 feet diameter for a stem of 6 feet ; a spreading, straggly tree. It attains a height of 30-35 feet, with 

 smooth or ribbony stems, many of which are 9 inches to 1 foot in diameter. Mr. Dabovich, of Port 

 Lincoln, says there are some on the island 50 feet high. I saw some trees of this height on the island, 

 but not close enough to distinguish the species. At Kirton Point, it is a strong, coarse-growing, tall shrub 

 near the sea. but larger away from it. It occurs halfway down Stamford Hill. On the western road from 

 Port Lincoln it seems to first appear at 2|- miles (old road). Timber pale throughout (small saplings.)" 

 len in Tram. Roij. Soc. S.A., xxxii, 30, 1908). Also Memory Cove (J.H.M.). 



Also Taylor's Island, named by Flinders after a midshipman lost in the 

 disaster at Cape Catastrophe, near Port Lincoln (Dr. R. S. Rogers, September, 

 1907). 



AFFINITY. 



1. With E. dumosa A. Cunn. 



In making it a variety of E. dumosa (B.F1. iii, 230), Bentham says 

 ' Peduncles shorter than broad. Flowers closely sessile, the calyx-tube shorter 

 than broad, angular, and operculum conical as in E. f/oniocalyx. but leaves of 

 E. dumosa." 



Compare Plates 16 and 19 (E. dumosa) and Plate 17 (E. conglobala), 

 Part IV of this work. .Speaking generally, the former is inland and the latter 

 coastal. The former has smaller and less coarse foliage, more sessile inflorescence, 

 with a thinner peduncle; the fruits are cylindroid, while those of E. conglobata 

 are always hemispherical. At the same- time, the two species are very close to 

 each other. 



