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branches covered with fibrous outside grey and rough bark," and 

 he mentions as one of the means of distinguishing it from E. 

 ■pilularis " its rough bark extending to the branches (Pachy- 

 phloife),'' whereas the typical E. jnjjerita is only a " half barked ' 

 tree like E. jnhdaris. 



Howitt in his " Eucalypts of Gippsland " {Trans. Ii.S. Vict. 

 Vol. ii. Part 1, p. 87) speaks of the "near alliance" of the two 

 species. Speaking generally, the two species are very distinct 

 and are not to be mistaken one for the other. They differ 

 markedly in their seedlings, in the venation of the mature leaves 

 and in the odour of the same in their bark and timbers. 



Howitt has figured a number of fruits at Plate 13 which 

 he attributes to E. piperita, viz., Nos. 6-19, Nos. 20 and 21 being 

 referred to E. eugenioides. We are of opinion that Nos. 6 to 9 

 are properly referred to E. inperita; as regards the remainder, we 

 would suggest that they probably belong to E. eugenioides. We 

 would also invite attention to Mr. Howitt's excellent drawings of 

 seedlings on Plate 14. Nos. 1 and 4 seem to us both to belong 

 to identical species, viz., E. eugenioides. 



It does not appear to us that Howitt has quite grasped the 

 distinction between E. 2jipe7-ita and E. eugenioides, which opinion 

 is strengthened by a consideration of the apparent confusion 

 existing in the mind of Baron von Mueller when writing the 

 descriptions of the two species in the Eiicalyp)tograp)hia. Never- 

 theless the southern examples especially do present some 

 difficulties, and there is a form of somewhat wide distribution 

 which we shall now refer to which, if not a connecting link, shows 

 at any rate affinity to both species, and it may have been a pre- 

 dominance of such a form which led to so much confusion. 



The intermediate form to which we refer may be briefly 

 indicated as follows : — Bark fibrous, not so fibrous as that of a 

 typical Stringybark, and perhaps little more fibrous than that of 

 the ordinary E. jnpey-ita. The fruits nearly globular and showing 

 a mottled appearance, due to unequal shrinkage of the outer 

 layers of cells of the fruit. The orifice is small, the rim depressed 

 and not veiy prominent. The specimens, which are from Port 



