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These two labels in Hei'b. W. Sender in Herb., Melb., are on specimens 

 identical in appearance. 



4. E. purpurascens (U.Br.) F.v.M. 



Collected by Robert Brown at Port Lincoln in 1802, and distributed by the 

 British Museum under No. 1,735. It is in many herbaria under Brown's name. 



Afterwards, Mueller adopted the name. I have seen the type labelled by 

 him " J^J. ptirpurascens, Perd.M. Scrub of Port Lincoln, 1855. 4-6". Carl 

 Wilhelmi." Mueller distributed a number of specimens under that name. 



5. E. Behriana, F.v.M., var. purpuraseens, F.v.M. 



"Flowers larger. Peduncles and calyx angular, the latter fully two lines long. 

 Operculum obtusely conical, but shoi'ter than the calyx-lobe. Stamens purplish. 

 Lake Wangaroo ( VVangary.— J.H.M.). JJ'ilhelmi." (B.Fl. iii, 214). 



G. E. hemiphloia, F.v.M. var. purpurascens, Maiden, Pi-oc. Boy. Soc. S.A., 

 xxvi, 12 (1902). 

 Mueller's E. purpurascens is identical with Bentham's specimens of E. hemi- 

 phloia, F.v.M., referred to in B.Fl. iii, 217, as " Memory Cove and Kangaroo Island, 

 R. Brotvn ; Port Lincoln, Wilhelmi.''' 



The same specimen was labelled by Mueller " E. heniiphloia var. ; pedicels 

 none ; lid short and blunt." 



Loc. cit. I suggested that the form be named E. hemiphloia, F.v.M., var. 

 purpurascens. 



7. E. Lansdowneana, Mueller and J. E. Brown, in Brown's "Forest Flora of 

 South Australia," Part 9, t, 31 (1890). 



The forms under the above names have puzzled a good many people, because 

 there is absolute transition between white and pink (sometimes deep pink) coloured 

 flowers. The variety is, in my opinion, not a strong one. 



All the synonyms, except E. Lansdowneana, are based on material collected 

 in the Port Lincoln district. 



Following are field notes, of some value for that reason. 



"Red Mallee" seems to be commonest in the Port Lincoln district; it is pink 

 flowering, and very pretty. It is usually a straggling small tree of 10 feet and 

 more, with a stem of 3 or 4 inches. It is certainly not a variety of E. hemiphloia 

 as has been supposed, from herbarium material. 



" Pink Mallee," for so it is also called, is at Kirton Point much like E. 

 incrassata, var. dum,osa ; it has a small operculum, but tliis is never grooved, and 

 it is more pointed and less rounded than that of var. dumosa. Pink Mallee is 

 usually more compact in habit than the latter. 



