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ON TWO WELL-KNOWN BUT HITHERTO UNDE- 

 SCRIBED SPECIES OF EUCALYPTUS. 



By Pl. T. Baker, F.L.S., Assistant Curator, Technological 



Museum, Sydney. 



In a paper "On the occurrence of Eucalyptus pulverulenta in 

 Yictoria," read by Mr. A. W. Howitt, F.G.S., before the A.A. A.S. 

 recently held in Sydney, an opinion is expressed that the E. 

 Stuartiana figured and described by Baron von Mueller in his 

 Eucalyptographia is a " strong variety of E. pulverulenta." 



As I am familiar with the tree which has always been regarded 

 in N S.W. as E. Stuartiana and failed to see any connection 

 between it and E. pulverulenta, I wrote Mr. Howitt stating my 

 grounds of objection to his classification. I immediately received 

 from him complete material of all Victorian species in dispute; 

 specimens of timber, bark, foliage (young and mature), buds, 

 fruits and also a quantity of leaves — enough to give sufficient oil 

 for a chemical investigation. 



From the information accompanying each it was clear that my 

 correspondent was able to speak with confidence concerning these 

 particular Eucalypts, for in one of his letters he states : — 



" The leaves I sent were of the tree which Baron von Mueller 

 selected and established in the Eucalyptographia as EiLcalyptus 

 Stuartiana. . . . From the specimens of foliage, timber 

 and bark which you now have, you will see why I have dissented 

 from the late Baron and hold that this tree should have remained 

 as a variety of E. pulverulenta. . . . Taking the Victorian 

 localities, the E. pulverulenta var. lanceolata which grows near 

 Beechworth in Gippsland, that approaches the New South Wales 

 sample. The E. Stuartiana of Baron von Mueller appears, as I 

 have before said, about 30 miles west of Moe. The specimens 

 which you have so kindly sent me I have not yet had time to 

 more than inspect, but I observed that your ' Woolly -butt ' i^E. 

 Bridgesiana, nov.sp.) is the 'Apple-tree,' 'Apple-tree Box,' or 



