768 MISCELLANEOUS NOTES ON EUCALYPTUS, I., 



close; and doubtless additional evidence will be forthcoming as 

 to juvenile foliage, oil, bark, timber, ttc. My observations as to 

 the transition forms of anthers may cause botanists to give more 

 attention to this aspect of variation. 



16. E. CLADOCALYX, F.V.M., Linnea, xxv. 388(1852). 



Syn. E. corynocalyx, F.v.M., Fragm. ii. 43 (1860); E. Cooperi- 

 ana, F.v.M., Fragm. xi. 83(1880). 



In the ' Eucalyptographia,' under E. corynocalyx^ Mueller him- 

 self quotes E. cladocalyx as a synonym, but he offers rto explana- 

 tion of his action in suppressing a name in favour of one given 

 eight years later. I have turned to the original description of 

 E. cladocalyx, and find that it is quite in order. The type came 

 from the Marble Range (near Port Lincoln, S.A.), and it was 

 originally described as a shrub. The name must be restored, and 

 this should have been done years ago, before corynocalyx came so 

 extensively into use. The law^s of nomenclature cannot be set 

 aside at the will of any man, however eminent. 



I have examined the type of E. Cooperiana, F.v.M., from King 

 George's Sound (Maxwell), and cannot see that it differs in any 

 essential character from E. cladocalyx, F.v.M. The peduncles 

 and pedicels of E. Cooperiana are broader than those of E. cory- 

 nocalyx. The range of this species therefore extends to Western 

 Australia. Bentham included E. Cooperiana under E. deciirva, 



F.v.M. 



17. E. PATENS, Benth. 



(1) E. p>ac1iyloma, Benth. (B.Fl. iii. 237), a synonym. 



Preiss, under No. 252, distributed both flowering and fruiting 

 specimens. They (or at least the flowers) were obtained "in 

 arenosis silvaeadfl. Swan Paver. Oct. 1839 florens." The flower- 

 ing specimens belong to E. rudis, Endl., while the fruiting speci- 

 mens belong to E. patens, Benth. Bentham, indeed, first pointed 

 this out, for he says "The fruiting specimens distributed by Preiss 

 (not described by Schauer*)belong to E. patens, which has much 



* Nor did Endlicher describe the fruits in Enum. PI. Htigel, No. 157, p. 49. 

 The type came from "King George's Sound." It is obvious that the whole 

 trouble has been caused through the erroneous matching (by Preiss) of 

 flowering and fruiting twigs under his No. 252. 



