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others 6 to 8 flowers more distinctly pedicellate " (B.Fl. iii. 239). 



"The species varies very much in the size and number of the 

 flowers, and the shape of the operculum. In the original Tas- 

 manian form, common also in Victoria, the peduncles are mostly 

 3-flowered, although occasionally many-flowered specimens occur " 

 (^■6., p. 240). 



E. )iiannifeva, Moodie, MSS., in Trans. Med. Bot. Soc. iii., 24 

 (Walpers, Repert. ii., 163) "4-6 floris." This is stated by 

 Bentham to be E. viininali><. 



E. persicifolia, Lodd., (Bot. Cab. t. 501) referred by Bentham 

 to E. vimiiialis, is multiflowered. 



Howitt's " typical form of E. viniiiiaJis " (" Eucalypts of 

 Gippsland," Trans. R. Soc. Vict, ii., Part i. p. 97, pi. 15, figs. 23-31), 

 includes a form with 5 flowers. 



" Umbels generally three-flow^ered " ( Mueller, Eucalyptographia). 



" E. viminalis rarius 4-7 floris " (Fragm. ii. 64). 



We have Hartmann's specimens No. 511 from the Condamine, 

 Queensland, before us. They absolutely match many Victorian 

 viminalis specimens, except that they are multiflowered. Mueller 

 labelled them vimi7ialis, and Bentham concurred. The species 

 in Northern New South Wales and Queensland is usually, but 

 not always, multiflowered. 



At Lidsdale we found trees of the true " Manna or Weeping 

 White Gum," flowers mostly in threes but up to 7's; and in the 

 Kanimbla Valley (road to Lowther) with flowers in 4's. 



We have often amused ourselves in searching for 4's and even 

 for 5's in trees that appeared to have the inflorescence entirely in 

 3's, and usually found them, if sufficient patience be exercised. 

 The variety known as pedicellaris is normally multiflowered, but 

 the number of flowers varies. 



It is often convenient in practice .to divide the species into 

 those which have the flowers in threes and those which have them 

 in more than three. We have multiflowered specimens from 

 every colony in which the species is found. 



The word multijlora may be used as a convenient term to 

 describe the forms of viminalis (otherwise closely related to the 



