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RANGE. 



Confined to North Queensland, so far as we know at present. I only know it 

 from Stannary Hills (Dr. T. L. Bancroft), the type, and from Mount Albion (Samuel 

 Dixon). It can easily be picked up through its ribbed buds and flowers ; it is a " Silver- 

 leaved Box," or akin thereto. 



AFFINITIES. 



With E. pruinosa Schauer. 



If E. pruinosa be turned to, at Part XII, p. 74, Plate 54, the large, ribbed fruits 

 figured at fig. la (Mount Albion, Q.) are E. Shirleyi. Under Kange, at p. 74, the 

 specimens recorded from Stannary Hills are also E. Shirleyi. 



The fruits of E. pruinosa are, in the above Plate, drawn from the type, and are 

 quite smooth, entirely free from ribs, finely rimmed, with valves slightly exserted; 

 the petioles are long and delicate. In Mueller's " Eucalyptographia," E. pruinosa is 

 depicted, the fruits rather smaller, but agreeing in every essential with the type. 

 Mueller particularly states that in this species " neither lid nor tube of the calyx is 

 angular." 



The buds of E. pruinosa have the operculum and calyx-tube of equal length, 

 and they are rounded. The leaves of the two species have much in common, and 

 additional material of leaves, with specimens of bark and timber, together with data 

 as to habit are necessary before a full pronouncement as to differences between the two 

 species can be given. 



Because of the immaturity of the anthers in the specimen of E. Shirleyi, it can 

 only be at present said that they have a very large gland (a sign of youth), and that 

 they seem to belong to the Macrantheree. Those of E. pruinosa are Porantheroid, 

 with some tendency to be semi-terminal. 



I confidently predict that, when E. Shirleyi is better known, a much greater 

 divergence between the shapes of the juvenile and mature leaves will be ascertained. 

 I should not be surprised if mature leaves of a lanceolate shape will be found. The 

 same remarks are appfi cable to E. pruinosa. I have dwelt upon the point as to the 

 importance of being on the look out for the extreme forms of both juvenile and mature 

 leaves in Part LVII. 



