B, T. Baker: Eucalyptus PoUfhradea. 151 



One effect of this confounding of nomenclature is that in New 

 South Wales, the oil obtainable from E. pohjhractea being of a high- 

 class character, is in demand on the European and American mar- 

 kets, and when exported from New South Wales is sold under this 

 name, that being the one to which the chemistry is attached in the 

 work on " Eucalypts and Their Essential Oils," published in 1902, 

 and quoted by London buyers. 



The same species is now being worked in Victoria in the Ingle- 

 wood and Bendigo Districts, but the name E. cajwputea is attached 

 to the product by at least one manufacturer, a name which belongs 

 really to the South Australian species, E . odorata. The Victorian 

 product thus suffers in consequence with those people who know the 

 oil of E. polyhractea intimately. 



Apart then from the systematic side, Avhich, of course, must pre- 

 dominate, commerce would certainly be better served if the original 

 name — E. polyhractea — is retained for this Mallee, the claims of 

 any other name for the species as shown above being untenable. The 

 name E. fruticetorum refers to another species according to 

 Mueller's description (supra). The " Silver leaf " Eucalyptus of 

 Bendigo and Inglewood, Victoria, and the " Blue Mallee " of 

 Wyalong district. New South Wales, are the same species, and its 

 name is E. polyhractea. 



