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Western Australia. 



" Desert south of Fitzroy Kiver, West Kimberley." (W. V. Fitzgerald.) 



This is one of Mr. Fitzgerald's labels, and his discovery of this species as new 

 to Western Australia does not appear to have been recorded. It will be observed 

 that, like Mueller, he speaks of it occurring in a " desert." 



AFFINITIES. 



1. With E. eudesmioides F.v.M. 



E. odontocarpa is " very much like some specimens of E. eudesmioides, but the 

 stamens do not appear to be arranged in clusters." (B.FL, hi, 260.) 



The affinities of the various species of the Eudesmieae are dealt with at p. 137. 

 The morphology of the filaments in the various species is discussed separately at 

 p. 135. 



2. With E. tetrodonta F.v.M. 



E. odontocarpa " . . . at once distinguished from the following species 

 (tetrodonta) by the very much smaller flowers." (B.Fl., iii, 260.) Luehmann (Proc. 

 Aust. Assoc. Adv. Science, vii, 524) thought E. odontocarpa is probably a variety of 

 E. tetrodonta. The species are compared to some extent in the table at p. 137. 



3. With E. tetragona. 



" E. tetragona is through E. eudesmioides also cognate to E. odontocarpa, of which 

 well-developed flowers remained as yet unknown; the differences of the latter consist 

 in still narrower and somewhat curved leaves with more spreading veins, in the small- 

 ness of its flowers with proportionately more developed calyx-teeth, and the not 

 membranously margined seeds; very possibly its anthers will bring it nearer to 

 E. tetrodonta." (" Eucalyptographia.") 



See the table at p. 137. E. tetragona and E. eudesmioides will be dealt with 

 in Part XLVI. 



