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it and Xanthorrlicea semipJana. The cladocalyx does not im- 

 press me here. It reminds me of Angopliora lanceolata in 

 its goutiness and gnarledness. It has a thick, sappy bark 

 of a rich orange colour. I also collected the species at Port 

 Augusta. 



4. E. cneorifoUa, DC. The "Narrow-leaf" of Kangaroo 

 Island. At Hog Bay it has a white stem and is rather tall, 

 up to 40 ft. when allowed to grow singly, but is usually 

 cut down, or of much smaller growth. As a large tree the 

 bark is slightly ribbony, the trunk rough, or box-scaly. It 

 has very narrow suckers and forms a scrub of extraordinary 

 denseness, impenetrable. The timber is red, both of the 

 large trees and the small scrubby form. Collected also at 

 Kingscote. The superficial resemblance between the ripe 

 fruits, in dense clusters, and those of E . incrassata, var. con- 

 (/lohafa, is remarkable. The ripe buds, "egg in eggcup," also 

 display a considerable resemblance to those of var. dumo<a. 

 The narrowness of the leaves and the redness of the timber, 

 however, sharply separate E. cneori folia from any form of 



5. E. ro><mop]i!/]la, F. v. M. Mount Lofty Range. This 

 appears to be the only species of Eucalyptus endemic to South 

 Australia. The fruits vary much in size, those from \ in. 

 bare to ^' in. full, being found on the same branch. It is 

 abundant, both shrubs and small trees : bark ribbony, form- 

 ing a straggly, twisted tree. I have known it to be called "Blue 

 Gum." It is, however, not generally known that E. cosmo- 

 pJit/IJa may attain a considerable size. In 1904 Mr. Walter 

 Gill, Conservator of Forests, Adelaide, wrote to me that in 

 the Hundred of Kuitpo he had measured a tree 2 ft. 6 in. 

 in diameter ! It had 14 ft. of a trunk before branching, 

 and it then carried a head reaching quite 50 ft. from the 

 ground. 



6. E. diver si folia, Bonpl. (See Part vii., "Crit. Rev. 

 Eucal.") It is the commonest Eucalypt between Port Lin- 

 coln and Lake Wangary, existing in the greatest profusion. 

 The leaves of the seedlings vary a good deal, some of them 

 being stem-clasping and quite broadish. On Thistle Island 

 it is, say, 15 ft. high, and with a stem diameter of 4 in. 

 It has grey, thin bark, which peels a little. The timber is 

 pale throughout, darkening a little towards the centre. The 

 sizes of the fruits vary. Dr. Rogers collected it at Cape 

 Conedie (Kangaroo Island^. Tate,*^' following Bentham, re- 

 fers E. Ba.rferi, "established on Kangaroo Island samples," 

 to this species. At p. 213, Part viii., of my "Critical Re- 



(3) Trans. Roy. Soc. S.A. vi.. 141 (1883). 



