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Explanation of Plates (180-183). 



PLATE 180. 



E. perfoliata R. Br. 



la. Pair of young connate leaves; 16, fruit with a very short stalk. Roe's River. York Sound, North- 

 west Australia. (Allar Cunningham, No. 238. September, 1820.) 



2a. Portion of leaf, not in the perfoliate state; 26, flowers; 2c, anthers. " North-west Coast, Australia " 

 (Surgeon Bynoe). (Nos. 1 and 2 were, drawn by Miss M. Smith, of Kew, from original specimens 

 in the Kew Herbarium). 



3(7. Pair of leaves, still in the " juvenile " stage, and yet the plant is bearing flower-buds ; 36, sessile fruit. 

 Lennard River, Kimberleys (W. V. Fitzgerald, No. 333.) 



4. Fruit, more urceolate than the type. King's Sound, North-west Australia (W. W. Froggatt, 1886). 



5. Buds. Mt. Anderson and Grant Range, Kimberleys. (W. V. Fitzgerald, August, 1906). The fruits 



of this specimen are similar to 36, but with rather smaller orifice. 



PLATE 181. 



E. ptychoc-arpa F.v.M. 

 (See also Plate 182.) 



la. Juvenile leaf (as young as I have seen) ; 16, fruit, the ribs not winged and the fruit more globular than 

 in the type. In swamps, Northern Territory, north of 15° (W. S. Campbell). 



2a, Intermediate leaf ; 26, bud, with ribs ; 2c, buds and flowers, the ribs almost winged ; 2d, front and 

 back views of anthers. Eight Mile Spring on to Tamburini, Northern Territory (G. F. Hill, 

 No. 809). 



3. Fruit ; Bathurst Island, Northern Territory (G. F. Hill, No. 469). 



PLATE 182. 



E. ptychomrpa F.v.M. (See also Plate 181.) 



1. Buds and flower, with long peduncle, loug pedicels, and long filaments. Pine Creek, Northern Territory 



(C, E. F. Allen, No. 116.) 

 2a. Mature leaf; 26, bud; 2c, fruits. Woollybutt Creek, near Phillips Range, North West Australia 



(W. V. Fitzgerald, No. 950.) 



E. similis Maiden. 



3a. Juvenile leaf; 36, mature leaf; 3c, buds; 3d, front and back view of anthers; 3c, fruits. Desert 

 country, west of Emerald, Queensland (G. H. Carr). The type. 



4. Fruits. Alice, 328 miles west of Rockhampton, Queensland (W. Pagan, through C. T. White). 



E. lirala (W. V. Fitzgerald) Maiden. 



5a. Mature leaf ; 56, fruits. Summit of Bold Bluff, Kimberleys, North West Australia. (W. V. Fitzgerald, 

 No. 843). The type. 



E. Baihyaim (Maiden) F.v.M. 



' (See my " Forest Flora of New South Wales," Part XXXV, p. 71, Plate 132, where it will be seen that 

 I have amended Mueller's original description and figure of the species.) 

 6a. Two juvenile leaves, bearing stellate hairs ; 66, mature, leaf ; 6c, buds ; 6d, front and back views oi 

 anther; 6e, calyx-tube; 6/, fruits. Eight Mile Plains, Brisbane, Queensland (A. Williams). 

 The locality is that of the type, and the drawings are taken from the " Forest Flora " plate already 

 quoted. 



