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Buds cylindroid, the blunt cylindrical operculum about twice as 'long as the slightly ribbed calyx- 

 tube, about five to eight in the umbel, on a decurved peduncle of 2-5 cm., each calyx-tube gradually tapering 

 into a pedicel of under 1 cm. 



Flowers. — " The bloom is evidently a large pale yellow " (Vachell). Anthers large, with parallel 

 cells and large gland at back. 



Fruits moderately large, conoid, flat-topped, rather gradually tapering into a flatfish pedicel, with 

 two especially prominent longitudinal ribs or wings running from the rim and causing an expansion of 

 the pedicel, together with a number of less prominent ribs of which two are only secondary to the main 

 ones, rim moderately broad and flat, with four deltoid or acicular tips of the valves distinctly protruding 

 beyond the orifice and encased with the whitish remains of the capsule-lining. 



" Baronrath," via Kellerberrin, W.A. Flowers and ripe fruit, September, 1903; nearly ripe fruit, 

 December, 1903 (F. Harvey Vachell). 



" Grows on the sand-plains about here. I have only met with a small group of them." 



RANGE. 



This species is only known from Western Australia. The localities already 

 indicated are Kwelkan and Kellerberrin. A third locality is Uberin Hill, Dowerin 

 (from Mr. C. A. Fauntleroy, through Mr. W. C. Grasby), in the same general area. 



AFFINITIES. 



1. With E. erythronema Turcz. 



See Plate 93, Part XXII of the present work. The leaves of E. erythronema 

 are narrower, the pedicels longer, the calyx-tubes not ribbed, the filaments pale and 

 not glandular, the opercula conical, the fruits smaller, more flat-topped and less 

 constricted at the orifice. The anthers are not dissimilar, and it would appear that 

 E. Stoivardi and E. erythronema are closely allied. 



2. With E. Forrestiana Diels. 



See Plate 95, Part XXII of the present work. In E. Forrestiana the peduncle 

 is longer, the pediceis more articulate, the anthers more rounded, the filaments less 

 grooved, though glandular.- The opercula shorter, more conoid and less in diameter 

 than the calyx-tube. The fruits larger and more quadrangular, the ridges more 

 pronounced. 



3. With E. inerassata Labill., var. angulosa. 



Compare Plate 14, Part IV of the present work. The foliage of var. angulosa 

 is coarser, the peduncle strap-shaped, the operculum shorter, and it and the fruit more 

 corrugate. 

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