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Juvenile Foliage. — The youngest specimens seen by me" are 

 oblong to broadly lanceolar in shape, sessile, or with a very short 

 petiole, rounded at the apex, or terminating in a blunt point, 

 symmetrical ; texture coriaceous. The dimensions of some speci- 

 mens are 3x1^ inches and 5x2^ inches. Veins well 

 marked, spreading, the intramarginal vein a considerable distance 

 from the edges. 



Malxire Foliage. — When in a flowering state this tree has 

 sometimes a few oblong leaves, but they vary in all degrees of 

 width of lanceolar shape up to, say, 4 inches long by half an inch 

 wide. Leaves on flowering twigs may be a little different from 

 the juvenile foliage stage either as regards shape or position of 

 intramarginal vein. Fully developed leaves have the intra- 

 marginal vein close to the edge, and are petiolar, with a petiole 

 of an inch and more. 



Buds with blunt conoid operculum when unripe, the calyx 

 sessile on a broad (strap-shaped) peduncle. When near bursting 

 the operculum is either perfectly hemispherical or with a slight 

 umbo. 



Flowers. — In a head of usually seven individual flowers, but 

 they may be as few as three. Anthers two-celled and parallel. 



Fruits. — Hemispherical to sub-cylindrical in shape, or more or 

 less conoid by mutual pressure. Over ^ inch in diameter. The 

 rim truncate and well marked, the tips of the valves flush with the 

 rim, or scarcely exceeding the rim. The fruit smooth or slightly 

 angled. Valves in 3's, 4's, and 5's as seen. 



Habitat. — " Dwarf eucalypt, Foster, Gippsland, Victoria ; 

 A. W. Howitt, 14th November, 1888" (label on specimens in 

 Nat. Herb. Melb.; comm. J. G. Luehmann). 



" Grows in poor, boggy country, in the low-lying tracts, but also 

 occurs in the drier hills at Foster" (A. W. Howitt, op. cit.) 



" All the undoubted samples of the species that I have yet seen 

 on these (Powlett) plains are from burnt boles, though I believe 

 some I saw nearer Cape Patterson are seedlings " (A. E. Kitson, 

 3rd February, 1903, in litt.) Foster is further to the east. 



Species-name in honour of Albert Ernest Kitson, F.G.S., 

 geological surveyor in the service of the Victorian Government, 

 who has, at the instigation of Mr. Howitt, given much attention 

 to this eucalypt. 



The above simply deals with statements of fact. The follow- 

 ing statements contain expressions of opinion that are my 

 own : — 



Affinities. — Mueller variously labelled this species E. 

 hotryoides and E. gunnii, and Howitt, quite reasonably, adopted 

 the latter name, though with doubt. 



(a.) E. hotryoides, Sm. Let us compare E. kitsoni with 

 Victorian-grown hotryoides. 



