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2. With E. eapitellata Sm. 



E. agglomerata appears to differ in the following characters : — 



(a) Smaller and more stellate juvenile leaves, the margins of which are undulate 



or crenulate. They are also less cordate. They appear to be intermediate 

 between those of E. Blaxlandi and E. eapitellata, i.e., larger than the former, 

 smaller than the latter. 



(b) In the E. eugenioides-hke buds, with its longer operculum. 



(c) In the smaller and more contracted fruits. 



3. With E. eugenioides Sieb. 



The juvenile leaves are intermediate between E. eugenioides (which have the 

 narrowest of the Stringybarks) and E. Blaxlandi, but nearer the latter, and considerably 

 smaller than those of E. eapitellata. The buds more closely resemble those of 

 E. eugenioides than those of E. eapitellata. They are stellate like the former. 



In the type locality, E. eugenioides grows in flatter country. 



4. With E. laevopinea R. T. Baker. 



They are both Blue-leaf Stringybarks. With E. laevopinea the affinity is not 

 quite so close as in the three preceding species, nevertheless, the general facies of 

 E. Icevopinea is reflected in the essential morphological characters of the new species, 

 with varying degrees of similarity. For example, at one stage, the buds of E. Iwvopinea 

 are between stellate and clavate, while the fruits, though invariably rounded, vary 

 from truncate to domed with slightly exsert valves, but at the same time showing a 

 tendency towards abbreviated and elongated pedicels. The juvenile leaves, too, 

 though not conspicuously stellate, as in E. agglomerata, are inclined to broadness. 



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