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Tlie shape of the fruits is more spherical in E. falcata than in _£". connolor, 

 while the rim of the fruit is usually more truncate in the latter species. 



I have not the juvenile leaves of the Fremantle Eucalypt, and so cannot 

 continue the comparison f urthei*. 



Mr. Fitzgerald describes his Fremantle specimens as " Erect or straggling 

 hal)it, 10 to 20 feet thick (presumably a slip of the pen for high), 1 foot diameter, 

 bark greyish and smooth." The Fremantle trees much exceed in diameter anything 

 I have ever seen for E. falcata in the district which produced the type. 



I have already (under E. concolor, Part XIV, p. 154) explained that I liave 

 not been able to obtain E. concolor from the Fremantle district, — -I have not been 

 able to see Preiss' No. 225, the type. I continue, therefore, without the fvillest 

 information in regard to E. concolor, and until I see the type, or matched specimens, 

 I must necessarily speak with some reserve in regard to the affinity between 

 E. concolor and those Fremantle specimens I have referred to E. falcata. 



The anthers of E. falcata (typical) and E. concolor (Diels' No. 3,501.) are 

 alike. 



6. With E. decipiens, Endl. 



Thei"e is some similarity between the Fremantle specimens just referred to 

 (under E. concolor) and E. decipiens. The shape of the buds points in this direction, 

 but there is no ribbing in E. decipiens, — on the other hand, it is sometimes absent 

 in E. falcata, var. ecostata. The fruit of E. decipiens is less close to the Fremantle 

 specimens than are those of typical E. concolor. The tips of the valves of i?. decipiens 

 are usually sunk. 



Explanation of Plates (65-68). 



PLATE 65. 



E. oleosa, F.v.M. 



Irt. Juvenile leaves ; 16, buds and mature leaf ; Ir, fruits; If/, anthers. Murray Bridge, South Australia 



(practically a type locality). (R. H. Cambage and J. H. Maiden). 

 2a. Buds; 26, fruits. "Red MalL e," 1 mile S.W. of Mannuni, near River Murray, South Australia 



(practically a type locality). (W. Gill.) 

 3. Intermediate leaf. Near Mildura, Victoria. (W. S. Brownscombe.) 

 4a. Buds ; 46, fruits ; 4c, mature leaf; id, buds ; 4e, fruits ; if, buds ; ig, fruits (rim thicker) ; ih, buds. 



All froui Port Lincoln, South Australia. (J.H.M.) Note the variation in the buds, and all 



from practically the same tree. 

 5. Fruits, flat-rimmed. Tintinarra Desert, South Australia. (R. H. Cambage.) 

 6a. Buds; 66, fruits. Cape Jervis, South Australia. (J.H.M.) 



7a. Buds; 76, fruits. Murat and Denial Bays, South Australia. (Dr. R. S. Rogers.) 

 8«. Buds ; 86, fruits. Venus Harbour, South Australia. (Dr. R. S. Rogers.) 



Nos. 6, 7, 8, All from coastal localities, and to show variation in opercula. 

 9. Type (leaf, bud, and flowers) of H. Inrbinata, Behr. "Pine Forest across Salt's Creek, S.A. 



Dr. Behr." Miq. in Mfd. Kriiidk. Arch, iv, 1.37. See page 168. 



