318 J. H. MAIDEN. 



Floivers. — Buds about 8 mm. long, nearly symmetrical 

 as regards the calyx-tube and operculum, both of which 

 are sub-conical. There is sometimes a pedicel of 1 mm. 

 The rim between calyx-tube and operculum is well-defined. 

 Stamens inverted, the anthers opening in parallel slits, 

 gland at the back, filament attached not quite half way up. 



Fruits, — Turbinate or conoid, not seen quite ripe, sessile 

 or with a pedicel of about 1 mm., on a common peduncle of 

 under 1 cm., up to 7 in the head, about *5 cm. long and the 

 same in breadth, a well-defined narrow rim, slightly domed, 

 tips of valves protruded beyond the orifice, and, when ripe, 

 they will doubtless be well exsert. 



Habitat. — "Restricted to the sandstone and quartzite 

 ranges, table-lands and sandy foot-hills. On the shales of 

 Mounts House and Clifton the tree life is largely restricted 

 to E. confluens and Grevillea heliosperma. Occurs on the 

 conglomerates of Mount Behn." (Fitzgerald in "Kimberley 

 Report''). 



Beyond the above, all that has been published by Mr. 

 Fitzgerald is a small-scale photographic illustration with 

 the words "a narrow-leaved tree; of much wider distribu- 

 tion (than E. Mooreana (W.V.F.) Maiden, see this Journal 

 xlvii, p. 221) especially north-east of the King Leopold 

 Ranges." 1 



Affinities. 

 It is evidently a strong species in the present state of 

 our knowledge, and additional material must become avail- 

 able before one can usefully indicate its relationships. 



6. E. Housbana, (W.V.F.) Maiden, sp. nov. 



Arbor alta, altitudinem 80 feet attinens, aetate opposito-foliata 

 florescens. Folia juvenia fere amplexicaulia, petiolis brevibus vel 

 absentibus, latissinie lanceolata ad fere ovata, basi cordata, apice 



1 " Western Mail/' (Perth, W.A.) 2nd June, 1906. 



