114 THE VICTORIAN NATURALIST. 



The juvenile foliage is smaller, much thinner, more acuminate, 

 and has the venation more transverse, and the intramarginal vein 

 closer to the edge in E. botryoides, while the mature foliage is 

 certainly more transverse-veined. I have never seen the buds of 

 E. botryoides so rounded as in E. kitsoni. The fruits of E. 

 botryoides are more cylindrical, and the valves more sunk within 

 the orifice. The bark of E. botryoides is fibrous scaly. I regret 

 I have not been able to obtain a piece of timber. 



(b.) E. gunnii, Hook., f. 



It is the var. (6) of E. guntiii of Howitt (op. cit.), so Mr. 

 Howitt informs me. Log. cit. a description will be found. 



The form of E. gunnii in view by Mueller and Howitt is 

 doubtless that of var. acervula, Deane and Maiden {E. acervula, 

 Hook., f.), so common in sour, swampy land in Southern 

 Victoria. Var. acervula has the juvenile leaves more rounded 

 and the opercula more conical. The fruits also are more top- 

 shaped, and the rim broader than the rest of the calyx. The 

 peduncles are not strap-shaped, while the buds, flowers, and fruits 

 are pedicellate. 



(c.) E. dumosa, var, rhodophloia, Benth. {E. incrassata, Labill., 

 var,) It is certainly very near to the above, and perhaps 

 identical with it. See B. Fl., iii., 230, and my " Critical Revision 

 of the Genus Eucalyptus," Part iv., p. 98. I have drawings only 

 of the Kew specimens examined by Bentham. They are from 

 Phillips's Bluff, near Eyre's Relief, W.A., but, as compared with 

 E. kitsoni, show some of the fruits slightly pedicellate, with, 

 however, sessile buds. The peduncles are strap-shaped. The 

 fruits are in 3's and 4's (those of E. kitsoni being in 3's, 4's, and 

 5's). The foliage appears to be identical as far as it goes. 



But all the differences enumerated may not amount to much, 

 and, considering the E. kitsoni and the rhodophloia specimens 

 are from localities separated by thousands of miles, it would be 

 extraordinary if they were precisely identical. 



It seems to me that E. kitsoni is probably a hybrid. It 

 appears to possess a strain of E. gunnii, and perhaps also of E. 

 botryoides. If a hybrid, then E. gunnii is almost certainly one 

 of the parents ; the other is perhaps E. botryoides. 



Eucalyptus neglecta, sp. nov. 



A tree of small size. 



Bark. — " The bark is that of E. gunnii " (A. W. Howitt, in 

 lilt.) — i.e., smooth and ribbony. 



Juvenile Foliage. — Ovoid or oval, cordate at the base, and 

 stem-clasping (sessile) ; pale green, of the same colour on both 

 sides. I have leaves of this kind J/q and i}( inches broad. The 

 leaves may remain sessile and of the same shape for a consider- 



