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(h) Var. conglohafa. Port Lincoln is the home of this 

 variety, and I hitherto understood it to be always a shrubby 

 form, but it attains the dignity of a medium-sized tree. At 

 Boston Island the largest tree I saw is 2 ft. diameter for a 

 stem of 6 ft. ; a spreading, straggly tree. It attains a 

 height of 30-35 ft. with smooth or ribbony stems, many of 

 which are 9 in. to 1 ft. in diameter. Mr. Dabovich, of Port 

 Lincoln, says there are some on the island 50 ft. high. I 

 ^aw some trees of this height on the island, but not close 

 enough to distinguish the species. At Kirton Point it is a 

 strong, coarse-growing, tall shrub near the sea, but larger 

 away from it. It occurs halfway down Stamford Hill. On 

 the western road from Port Lincoln it seems to first appear 

 at 2i miles (old road). Timber pale throughout (small sap- 

 lings). 



(c) Var. (mgitlosa. This variety was the scarcest on my 

 trip. It occurs at Kirton Point ; it is common around the 

 Flinders Monument (Stamford Hill). It was noticed at 18 

 miles from Port Lincoln, along the western road, with un- 

 usually elongated cylindrical fruits. 



10. E. leuco.ryJon, F. v. M., is a common tree in South 

 Australia. I collected it at Mount Barker and Aldgate. At 

 Cape Jervis it is a gnarled, spreading tree, say of 20 ft., 

 with a smooth stem. In the Port Lincoln district it bears 

 the name of "Red Gum," and it attains a large size. On 

 the western road it is not very abundant. At 11-12 miles 

 it is common, and on the edges of the Swamp, "Sinclair's 

 Washpool" (19 miles), are fine trees. The red-flowering form 

 appears to be rare. It occurs at 11 miles from Port Lin- 

 coln. 



11. ^. obliqua, L'Her. (See ''Grit. Rev. Eucal.," Part 

 ii.) The fruit varies, sometimes approaching ovoid, some- 

 times nearly hemispherical. There is a good deal of varia- 

 tion in the texture of the bark. 



The types of E. falcifolia, Miq. (see "Grit. Rev. Eucal.," 

 ii., 61): E. fahrorurn, Schl. f^op. cif., p. 60), come from 

 the Mount Lofty Range. 



12. E. odoiata, Behr. This is a very abundant species 

 and very variable. It has now a rather complicated syn- 

 onymy. ''^' Following are some field notes on the forms seen 

 by me on the trip. It usually goes by the name oi "Pep- 

 permint."' The height to which the scaly or subfibrous bark 

 occurs up the trunk varies a good deal: the timber is brown. 

 Sometimes it is a fairly large tree : often it is only a tall 

 shrub. It may, for the purposes of these notes, be divided 



(4) See my paper in these Trans, xxvii.. 240 (1903). in part. 



