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Buds numerous, pointed and in heads, giving it a stellate aspect. Hardly so clavate as those of 

 E. stricta, but not seen ripe. Four to ten in the umbel. 



Flowers. — Expanded ones not seen. 



Fruits in dense heads, the common peduncle up to a quarter of an inch, pedicels absent. Individual 

 fruits rarely hemispherical,' slightly compressed at the base, rim broad and reddish-brown, slightly domed, 

 tips of valves flush with the orifice. 



Bark smooth, very long ribbons. 



Timber pale-coloured. 



Affinities. — The surrounding species are E. stricta Sieb. ; E. Sieberiana F.v.M. ; E. Moorei 

 Maiden and Cambage; and E. Gunnii Hook. f. var maculosa Maiden (E. maculosa R. T. Baker). It has 

 already been pointed out that the foliage resembles that of E. stricta. The buds exhibit slight resemblances 

 at least to E. stricta and to E. Gunnii var. maculosa, particularly to the former, but the affinity of the fruit 

 is not at present obvious, though they are suggestive of some forms of both E. capitellata and E. eugenioides, 

 to which trees our plant has otherwise not the slightest resemblance, and it may turn out to be a good species." 

 (Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., xxx, 201, 1905.) 



RANGE. 



Confined to New South Wales, so far as we know at present, but it may be 

 expected to be found in north-eastern Victoria. 



The type grew on sandy conglomerate formation at Kybean, amongst Casuarina 

 nana Sieber, near the Kydra Trigonometrical Station, on the Great Dividing Range, 

 4,000 feet above sea-level, 16 miles easterly from Nimitybelle, near Cooma (R. H. 

 Cambage, 4th November, 1908.) 



The plant already referred to at " C " was collected at Blackheath in a high 

 part of the Blue Mountains. 



AFFINITY. 



1. With E. stricta Sieb., and other species. 



Unfortunately the material of E. Kybeanensis is scanty, so that the last word 

 has not been said in regard to its relationships. It is shrubby, almost Mallee-like. In 

 this respect and to some extent in the seedlings, it has relations to E. stricta. In the 

 somewhat straight venation of the juvenile leaves it shows affinity to the E. coriacea 

 group, and in the fruits to the E. capitellata group. It certainly requires further 

 investigation. 



