318 ON SOME NEW SPECIES OF EUCALYPTUS, 



can be shown thai two species have been included under one 

 name, I propose as in a former paper (Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W. 

 June, 1898) to give this species specific rank, leaving Mueller's 

 name of E. gracilis to apply to the Victorian and South Aus- 

 tralian Mallee. Almost all the specimens in the National 

 Herbarium, Melbourne, are referable to it, whilst only a few 

 specimens to Green Mallee, E. viridis. I endeavoured to restore 

 it under the name of E. fruticorum, but that species is in such 

 inextricable confusion that I think science would be better 

 served if it were given specific rank under the name of E. 

 viridis. 



The anthers, stamens, section of buds and fruiting twig in the 

 lower left side of the plate (loc. cit.) illustrate the Victorian 

 Mallee. 



The stamens of the New .South Wales Mallee are all fertile," 

 whilst in the southern species the outer ones are sterile. The 

 anthers of the southern species are attached by the connective to 

 the stamens at the back by an attenuated point of the filament, 

 and the cells open by terminal pores. The fruit of the southern 

 species conforms to Bentham's description (B.F1. iii. p. 211) and 

 and also to Mueller's (Eucalyptographia, Dec. iii.), and is figured 

 by the Baron in the lower left hand corner of his plate. 



The anthers and fruits of the Green Mallee, E. viridis, are ; as 

 already stated, quite different from the above. 



Again, Bentham (B.F1. iii. p. I'll) states, under E. gracilis : 

 " Stamens . . outer ones anantherous, . . anthers small, 

 globular, cells distinct, opening in circular or oblong pores." This 

 description applies to the southern species but not to this one. The 

 oils of the two are also quite different. The shape and venation 

 of the leaves and the fruits show some affinities to E. stricta of 

 the Blue Mountains, but the anthers remove it from that species. 



Tentatively it is placed with E. stricta of the Blue Mountains. 



The field observations of Mr. \V. Bkuerlen are very valuable in 

 this connection. He states "that the tree is locally called also 

 'Bed Mallee' and 'Brown Mallee,' both names referring to 

 the colour of the surface of the bark. These features are, 



