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Ijptus), bud, fruits, &:c. In other words, it is one of the amplest 

 early figures of a species. 



F. vimuialis, LabilL, var. diver sifolia, Benth. Herb. (B.Fl. iii. 

 240) is another synonym. Bentham says " E. viminalis varies 

 very much in the size and number of flowers and the shape of 

 the operculum. In the original Tasmanian form, common also 

 in Victoria, the peduncles are mostly 3-flowered, although occa- 

 sionally many-flowered specimens occur. In the S. Australian* 

 E. diversifolia the flowers are rather numerous in the umbel and 

 the fruit large." I have seen Bentham's specimens, which are 

 really E. diversifolia, in immature fruit. 



9. E. ACMENioiDES, Schauer; and E. umbra, R. T. Baker, these 

 Proceedings, 1900, p. 687. 



These species may be at once separated if sucker-leaves be 

 available. Those of ^. acmenioides are thin and Eugenia Smithii- 

 (Acmena-) like, while those of E. iimhra are thick, broad and 

 coarse, much thicker and coarser than those of E. acmenioides. 

 They are indeed as thick and coarse as those of E. caintellata ever 

 are. The statement in the original description of E. umbra that 

 the sucker-leaves are " thin " must be modified. 



These two species have been so long confused and are, indeed, 

 so closely related, that it is desirable to endeavour to contrast 

 them. 



Where the two species grow in the same district, E. acmen- 

 ioides often grows on the flats or halfway up the hills. It may 

 hence be termed "Flat White Mahogany." It is a Stringybark, 

 the inner bark being white, while that of E. eugenioides is yellow. 

 The timber is very like Tallow Wood, and is often substituted 

 for that timber. It is a valuable timber. I have given instances 

 of its durability on other occasions, and would add that there is 

 an old wharf made of this timber at Woy Woy. The tide ebbs 



* E. diversifolia is a South and West Australian plant, and since the above 

 was written I have recorded it (Vict. Nat. xxi. 116) from Portland, Victoria, 

 also. 



