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but a tree growing at Cow Flat near Bathurst and closely allied to 

 the Tasmanian E. cordata, Labill. From the drawings and the 

 description of the drooping stems, the similarit}' also seems to 

 me greater to what I shall term in these papers the Bathurst E. 

 cordata or E. cordata var. than to the Argyle Apple. The first 

 difficulty that presents itself is to settle upon the locality where 

 the original seeds were collected from which the plants in Eng- 

 land were grown. The locality is stated as New Holland, and if 

 this could at those early dates have sometimes erroneously 

 included Tasmania, it would seem possible the seeds were collected 

 there and were perhaps typical E. cordata, for it must be remem- 

 bered that the species {E. pidvericleuta) was described from culti- 

 vated specimens. 



In the year 1822 Allan Cunningham collected near Cox's River 

 a shrubby species, which he named E. pidvlge7'a, and from his 

 general description this appears to be the same as the Bathurst 

 E. cordata. Curiously this form does not appear to have been 

 again collected till February of 1900, when I found it while 

 surveying on the hills near Cow Flat, opposite the old Apsley 

 Copper Mine, at about one mile west of the 11-mile post on the 

 road from Bathurst to Rockley. It was not until the year 1813 

 that the Blue Mountains were crossed, so that if the seeds of the 

 typical E. pulvei'identa were collected beyond that point, no time 

 was lost in having them bearing fruit in England by 1819, when 

 the description was published. Still a flowering plant of Euca- 

 lyptus glohidus, Labill., said to be only two years old, was 

 exhibited at the last meeting of the Australasian Association for 

 the Advancement of Science in Hobart, but this would seem to 

 be exceptionally young. 



As there is some doubt from the information at present avail- 

 able as to which is the typical E. indveridenta, I shall continue 

 to refer it in these papers to the Argyle Apple. "^ 



* Mr. J. H. Maiden, F.L.S., &c,, refers to this matter in a paper on E. 

 pulverulenta (these Proceedings, 1901, p. 547). 



