144 



The variety does not seem to l)c a strong one, running imperceptibly into the 

 type, and I see no advantage in retaining it. 



The species varies a good deal in the width of the leaves, as may be seen 

 from examination of Plate 62. 



Specimens from Cut Hill, York, Western Australia (O. H. Sargent, 433), 

 have broad leaves — e.g., 4'5 cm. long and 1'5 cm. broad ; but the flowers are distinctly 

 pedicellate and not sessile as those of tlie true var. latifolia. They were gathered 

 from a clump of shrubs of typical uncinata. 



2. Var. (?) major, Benth. 



Flowers larger, contracted into very short, thick pedicels, the peduncles more flattened. Fruit 

 rather larger, scarcely contracted at the orifice, the rim broader and flatter, the valves not acuminate — 

 Murohison River, Oldfield. (B.Fl. iii, 216.) 



I have figured at loa, b, c, Plate 62, a specimen from the Herbier Boissier of 

 Geneva, which I have no doubt is this supposed variety. The leaves have iu part a 

 bluish-green cast, and have very indistinct venation. I would like to see juvenile 

 leaves of this form, which is o]ie that we know very little about. I have not been 

 able to get particulars of the living shrubs or trees. 



3. Var. rostrata, Benth. 



Flowers more distinctly pedicellate, the operculum acuminate and longer than the calyx. — Phillips 

 Range, Maxwell ; Murchisoia River, OklfieM, aho Drummond, 5th Col!., n. 186. (B.Fl. iii, 216.) 



I have figured Drummond's specimen at Pig. 15, Plate (56, Part XV (not yet 

 published) of this work. I consider it to be a form of E. oleosa, and will discuss 

 the matter when I come to that species. 



I liave collected E. uiiclnala at Ilopetoun, Western Australia, with au 

 acuminate operculum longer than the calyx (and therefore answering the descrijjtion 

 of var. rostrata to that extent), but it is different to Drummond's specimen, and I 

 look ujiou it as a coarse form of E. luiGinata. (See Fig. 14, Plate 62.) 



This specimen came not far from the place whence Maxwell's specimen was 

 obtained ; but I have seen neither Maxwell's nor Oldfiekl's specimens, and it is quite 

 possible Bentham may have included plants of two species under his variety. 



SYNONYMS. 



1. E. leptophyUa, F.v.M. (often quoted as E. leptophylla, Miq.). 



2. E. desertoriim, Naudin. 



1. Eucalyptus leptophylla, Perd. Miill. MSS. 



B. perforata, Behr, Herb, partim. — Anne £. xanthonema, Turczauin., Bull, de Mosoou, xx, p. 163 (?) 

 frutex gracilis glaber, ramulis rubellis vel flavescentibus, t'oliis latolincaribus in acumen tenue excurrentibus 

 coriaceis frecjuenter pellucido-pumitatis, umbellis axillaribus 3-7 tlori.s, calycis tubo obconico-eampanulato 

 operculi flavescentis late conici mutici sublaevis longitudine, fructibus parvis cyathimurphis. 



Nova Hollandia australis, Murray-scrub, aestate florpiis (Dr. Bejir). 



