[Proc. Roy. Soc. Victoria, 26 (N.S.). Ft. I., 1913] 



Akt. XI. — On Eucalyptiis polyhractea, R. T. Baker. 



By K. T. baker, F.L.S. 



(Curator, Technological Muaeiun, Sydney). 



Communicated by Prof. A. J. Ewart, D.So. 



In a paper — " A Census of Victorian Eucalyptus " — read by 

 myself before the Australasian Association for the Advancement of 

 Science, in Melbourne, in January, 1913, this Eucalyptus is recorded 

 as Victorian under the above name. 



After reading my paper, a specimen was shown to me in the 

 National Herbarium under a label bearing Mueller's writing, E. 

 frutlcetorum. This has caused me to go once more into the 

 nomeclature of the two species, for I had already gone over the 

 ground before describing the species in 1900.1 



The name E. polyhractea was bestowed by myself in 1900. 



Since this Eucalyptus was described under the above name it has 

 had various positions given it by other systematic workers on the 

 Eucalyptus. 



In 1903, Trans. Roy. Soc. South Australia, Vol. xxvii., pp. 240 

 and 244, Mr. J. H. Maiden places it along with E. Woollsiana^ 

 E . riridis, and others, as a synonym of E. odorata, Behr. 



In 1903, Crit. Rev. Gen. Euc, Vol. i., p. 80, the same author 

 places it as a synonym of E. calycogona, Turcz., var. celastroideSy 

 Maiden, and further states: — "I do not think that the original 

 desoiption of A\ fruticetoruni, F. v. M., had been published in 

 Australia until I transcribed it for the Proc. Linn. Soc, N.S.W., 

 1902. 



'' I am aware of the confusion that has gathered around E. 

 frill icetormn, but Mf. Wilkinson's specimens, named E. frutice- 

 toriiin by Mueller himself, although gathered many years after the 

 original type specimens were collected, answer the description very 

 well. Bentham (B. Fl., Ill, 252) states that the West Australian 

 specimens refcncd to by Mueller in Frag, ii., 57, are referred to 

 E. loxoj)hleha, Benth., {E . fotcitnda, Schauei). They are also 

 stated to be the E. mntalifoli((, of Micpiel (op. lit. and Mueller in 

 Trans.. Vict., Inst., i., 35). 



1 Proc'. Uiiii Soc, N.S.W., vol. xxv., 1000, y. 602. 



