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Eudesmkp. It seems to me that all Eiidesinise flo.vor in tlie opposite- 

 leaved stage. 



E.fasciculosa'F.v.lL (S.) See Part XIV, p. UO. 



E. fcrruginea Schauer (S). 



E. Foelscheana F.v.M., flowering at IS inches. (S.) 



E. gamojjhijUa F.v.M. (S.) 



E. gigantea Hook. f. 



I have repeatedly seen this sjiecies flowering profusely when about feet high, somi-time.s when 

 not more than 3 feet, and on several occasions when it had reached a he'glit growth of between 2 and .'J feet. 

 As this species rarely suckers, it appeared to rac that the early and profuse seeding powers were a com- 

 pensating characteristic of the species. (W. A. W. de Beuz:ville, Foresi Assessor, Forestry Commission, 



Sydney.) 



In another letter llr. de Beuzeville says : " Regarding your inquiry as to the state of the fol'age 

 of this species when in th« earl}' flowering stage of 2 or 3 feet, I may say that you are quite right in your 

 impression that it flowers in a juvenile-leaf stage. I have often seen the flowers on these flowering saplings 

 fully 1 inches broad and about -5 inches long." This, therefore, is to be added to the list of tree species 

 which also flower in a shrubby state, and also to the list of those that flower in a juvenile-leaved stage. 

 (Maiden, in Journ. Ro>/. Sor. N.S.W., LI, 440, 1917.) 



E. globulus Labill. Mueller (EucahiJtograpliia) says, " On the storm-ljeaten 

 rocks of AVilson's Promontory I have seen E. globulus profusely in flower and fruit, 

 though dwarfed by exposure to the size of a mere shrul). when almost within the reach 

 of oceanic spray." 



Mr. A. D. Hardy sent me a twig of reversionarv foliage £rom an introduced 

 street-tree at Stawell, Victoria. The tree is of normal appearance, and l^cars buds, 

 flowers and fruits plentifully. Near a fork were reversionary shoots, all fruit or flower 

 bearing. 



E. gracilis F.v.M. Bee fig. 1. Plate 12, Part III, of this work. 



E. Houseana (W.V.F.) Maiden. "We may have inflorescence both with mature 

 and juvenile leaves in this species. See Plate 201, Part L of this work. 



E. Kybeanensis Maiden and Cambage. Flowers in juvenile stage. Sec legend 

 at p. 18.3; Part XLVI of the present work. 



E. leucoxylon F.v.M. Mueller (Eucalyptographia) has seen the species 

 flowering in a shrubby state, '" even when the leaves were still opposite." Flowered 

 and fruited freely at 4-6 feet on very poor shingly ground at Bacchus Marsh. Victoria, 

 see Part XII, p. 90. 



A red flowering form from Murray Bridge, S.A., collected by himself, had seed 

 sown by Dr. .J. B. Cleland at Neutral Bay, Port Jackson, 14th November, 1915. It 

 flowered at a height of 11 feet 6 inches from 26th October, 1918, to 3rd December, 

 i.e., at three years old. The flowering twigs, as seen by me, were not, however, in the 

 juvenile-leaf stage. 



E. macrocarpa Hook. A dwarf Western Australian .species. (S.) 



