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Teste CI. Miiller prope E. polyanthemos inserenda. Frutex 6-12 

 pedalis. Folia ad 3 poll, longa \ lata." 



Some of Mueller's type specimens of E. Behriana came from 

 Bacchus Marsh, in Victoria, where also occurs a Box, the her- 

 barium specimens of which have a very similar facies to that o£ 



E. Behriana. (The Box is a small fruited form of E. heiuiphloia, 



F. V. M.) Mueller himself has confused his own Behriana with 

 this form of hemiphloia in the distribution of herbarium speci- 

 mens, and as others have followed his example, it is desirable 

 that the confusion should be terminated if possible. 



E. Behriana is always a Mallee. It grows in scrubs, and 

 usually is five to ten feet high, though it sometimes forms small 

 trees, which have rarely a diameter of as much as nine inches. 

 The bark is always smooth, and commonly of a dirty-white colour, 

 or, according to one observer, of "a dark oily-looking green." 

 The timber is red. The flowers and fruit are small, with a 

 panicled inflorescence, the opercula being blunt, and the fruit 

 shiny and dark coloured. It bears seed abundantly. The leaves 

 are comparatively broad, and are shiny. 



As showing how difficult it sometimes is to deal with closely 

 related forms, we have two specimens, apparently identical, sent 

 by Mr. W. K. Bissill, of near Bendigo, Victoria, to the Melbourne 

 llerbarium at different times. Mueller labelled one '^ E. 

 hemiphloia, a form verging to Behriana," and the other " E. 

 Behriana, transit to £*. hemiphloia.'' We have als^ specimens, 

 apparently identical, from the Mallee country of Victoria labelled 

 variously by Mueller E. hemiphloia, E. Behriana, and E. largi- 

 florens. All these are Mueller's own species, and I can give no 

 better illustration of the way in which it is sometimes difficult to 

 discriminate between species from herbarium material alone. 



E. Behriana, F. v. M., and E. HEmPHLOiA, F. v. M. 



The confusion between these two species has been already 

 referred to. It occurs with the small-fruited variety of hemiphloia, 

 which in many herbaria goes under the name oi parviflora. This 

 in itself would be an appropriate name,^ but one at least of the 

 specimens tentatively so named by Bentham (B. Fl., III., 217) is 

 an Ironbark. I therefore propose for the small-fruited variety 

 of hemiphloia, so extensively distributed over the greater part of 

 the range of the species, the name E. hemiphloia, F. v. M., var. 

 microcarpa. It is synonymous with E. WooUsiana, R. T. Baker, 

 Proc. Linn. Soc, KS.W., XXV., 684 ; R. H. Cambage, ib, 714. 

 Mueller (Eucalyptographia) says : — 



"£*. Behriana approaches closely to E. heiiviphloia from which 

 it mainly differs in 



"1. Never attaining the stately dimensions of that species. 



