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" 2. Bark remaining smooth from succession of outer layers. 



" 3. The leaves are as a rule (subject, however, to exceptions) 

 -shorter and broader. 



" 4. The panicles are less ample, by which means the umbels 

 are not rarely arranged in a racemous manner. 



" 5. The flowers and fruits are smaller, their stalklets are less 

 abbreviated, the lid is shorter and blunter, and the fruit-valves 

 are less deeply enclosed." 



To which may be added — Their timbers are totally different, 

 that of B. Behriana being of a red colour; that of E. hemiphloia 

 is the ordinary pale-coloured Box, whose appearance and proper- 

 ties are thoroughly well known. 



In the Held the species could never be confused for a moment,, 

 but as expert botanists have confused them in the herbarium, it 

 is idle to contend that they do not possess a considerable degree 

 of similarity. Perhaps this note will be the means of causing 

 closer attention to the matter. 



Under E. Behriana, F. v. M., Bentham (B.Fl., III., 214) 

 describes a var. purpurascens, F. v. M., originally collected by 

 Wilhelmi at Lake Wangaroo, South Australia. At p. 217 

 (under B. hemiphloia) he refers to South Australian specimens 

 {Memory Cove and Kangaroo Island, K. Brown ; Port Lincoln, 

 Wilhelmi), and says^" In Mr. Brown's S. Australian specimens 

 the leaves are smaller, but in Wilhelmi's they are the same as in 

 the northern ones, and I can find no character to distinguish 

 them. Both R. Brown and F. Mueller had given them the M.S. 

 name of E. purpurascens. R. Brown's plant (collected 1802-5) 

 was distributed from the British Museum under the number 

 4,735. 



I have examined the type, labelled by Mueller " E. purpura- 

 scens, Ferd. M. Scrub of Port Lincoln, January, 1855. 4-6'. 

 Carl Wilhelmi." Afterwards the same specimen was labelled by 

 Mueller "^. hemiphloia, var./' with the note — " Pedicels none ; 

 lid short and blunt." All these specimens referred to E Behriana 

 and E. hemiphloia are, in my opinion, identical. They are 

 usually easily recognised by their purple filaments, and may be 

 referred to under the name E. hemiphloia, var. purpurascens. 

 •Judging from herbarium specimens alone, it is eas}'' to see how 

 botanists wavered, placing them at one time under E. hemiphloia 

 and at another under E. Behriana. 



E. Behriana and E. populifolia. 



In Eucalyptographia, under E. populifolia, Mueller compares 



that species with E. hemiphloia, and refers to the latter species 



iS known only from New South Wales and Southern Queensland, 



''■ and there confined to the coast districts or near to them." The 



