BY J. H. MAIDEN. 



551 



three to seven pedicellate flowers. Near Bathurst (A. Cunning- 

 ham), Lake George, Goulburn district. 



Mueller (Fragm. ii. 71) says that E. pulverulenta, Sims, was 

 formerly distributed under the name of U. cinerea. Bentham 

 (B. Fl. iii. 239) commenting on this says, "as far as our specimens 

 go, it appears to differ (from E. pulvei^uleiita) in the foliage, in 

 the larger sessile flowers, and in the larger, thicker fruit with a 

 very prominent thick rim." I may mention that when I took 

 charge of the Sydney Botanic Gardens all the E. pulverulenta 

 trees were labelled tJ. cinerea. Most of them are about 30 years 

 old, and whatever their appearance when they were first planted, 

 they are now typical E. 2^ulverulenta, Sims. 



I have recently had the opportunity of examining the speci- 

 mens, seen by Bentham, in the Kew Herbarium. They are 

 labelled "^. cinerea,'' and called "Bathurst Stringybark." They 

 are undoubtedly E. pulverulenta witli the leaves more lanceolar 

 than in the strict type, but only intermediate in character in 

 this respect between the type and the commonest Victorian and 

 New England forms. 



It will be observed that Woolls (Plants of New South Wales, 

 p, 55) follows Mueller in placing^, cinerea under E. jmlverulenta. 



Some further notes on synonym}' will be given at p. 554. 



Affinities. 



The closest aflinity of E. pulverulenta, Sims, is undoubtedly 

 with E. cordata, Labill. The affinities with E. Bisdoni and 

 E. globulus are of a more superficial character. 



A. — E. -pidverulenta and E. cor data. 



E. pulverulenta has the branchlets generally more slender and not acute- 

 angular, the leaves not crenulated, but dotted with roundish almost uniform 

 oil-pores, the flowers generally smaller, the tube of the flowering calyx down- 

 ward obconically attenuated, while the lid is less depressed, the fruit is 

 smaller, more top-shaped, and has a comparatively broader rim; the con- 

 vergent free part of the valves emanates almost at a level with the calyx edge 

 and arises not distinctly beneath the rim. The furrow between the discal 

 lining and the calyx-tube is running just beneath the edge of the fruit, not 

 forming a faint vertical channel around the rim (Eucalyptographia, under 

 E. cor data). 



