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Fruits. — Pedunculate and pedicellate, remarkably hemi- 

 spherical. The fruit usually a hemisphere, with a very 

 broad, flat rim, the tips of the valves protruding, but not 

 greatly. Valves usually four. Most of the fruits I have 

 seen are about *9 cm. in diameter, but I have one 1*1 cm. 

 in diameter with a depth similar to that of the other fruits; 

 in consequence its appearance is more tazza-like. 



Habitat. — Near Coolgardie, Western Australia, associ- 

 ated with E. torquata, Luehmann. (See p. 109, Vol. i of 

 my Critical Revision). (Mr. now Dr. 0. L. Webster). 



These two species grow on a range of hills about one 

 hundred feet high above the surrounding country. The 

 range runs almost due east and west; the country consists 

 mostly of iron-stained gravel and boulders lying on decom- 

 posed country rock. E. Websteriana occurs four miles 

 east of Ooolgardie, at Coolgardie (Toorak), and ten miles 

 west of Coolgardie, near the old Southern Cross road and 

 railway line. 



Affinities. 



In the present state of our knowledge this is a " strong" 

 species, that is to say, we do not know its close relations. 



1. With E. leptopoda, Benth. The nearest approach to 

 the remarkable fruit of E. Websteriana is a Tamrnin, W.A. 

 specimen of E. leptopoda. (See fig. 8, Plate 73, part xvii, 

 Critical Revision). But the juvenile leaves of the two 

 species are sharply different, those of E. leptopoda being 

 very narrow. The mature leaves also are very different. 

 The flowers are much more numerous in E. leptopoda, and 

 the anthers are similar. 



2. With E. Oldfieldii, F.v.M. The anthers of the two 

 species are very similar. (See Plate 73.) I do not trace 

 any other resemblances. 



