223 



dp:scription. 



XCII. E. Oldfieldii, F.v.M. 



In Eragm. ii, 37 (1860). 



It was described in Enc^lish by Bentham in B.Pl. iii, 237, and figured and described 

 by Mueller in " Eucalyptographia." 



Notes supplementary to the description. 



It has an ovoid operculum usually more or less rostrate. In its varieties 

 the rostrum may be absent. Its juvenile foliage is petiolate and ovate, not Inroad, 

 with the intramarginal vein distinctly removed from the edge. 



It is a stiff shrub of 8 or 10 feet, with many thin stems close together, 

 forming an impenetrable scrub, l)ut not a true Mallee. It is not a timber tree. 



Variety DrilllimoiKlii, new variety. 

 Syu. E. Drummondii, Benth., B.Fl. iii, 237. 



Mueller ("Eucalyptographia," under E. Oldfieldii) uses the words, "If 

 E. Drummondii should prove a mere variety (of E. Oldfieldii) as seems likely," . . 



Luehmann (Proc. Ausi. Assoc. Adv. Science, vii, ,532, 1898) writes : 

 " E. Drumm iidii seems a variety of this (E. Oldfieldii), being smaller in all its 

 parts." 



Neither botanist took upon himself to say that E. Drummondii is a variety 

 of E. Oldfieldii, and, after careful consideration of Oldfieldii, and its forms both in 

 the field and in herbarium specimens, I am of opinion that E. Drummondii, Benth., 

 is a variety of it, which I constitute under the name var. Dnnnmondii. 



The fruit was unknown to Bentham when lie described E Drummondii in 

 B.El. iii, 237, and appareatly Mueller only saw tlie young fruits. 



Juvenile foliage petiolate, ovate, intramarginal vein close to edge (specimens 

 of O. H. Sargent, near York, W.A.). 



I constitute Drummond's No 86 (sec fig. 6, Plate 71) type of var. 

 Drummondii, and would point out tliat O. II. Sargent's specimens, Cut Hill, York, 

 are in every way similar to Drununond's No. 86, and fii';. 7, Plate 71, may be taken 

 as typical for tiie fruit. 



RANGE. 



Tlie species and all its forms ai'c conliMfnl to Western Australia, so far as wo 

 know. Tlu! type came from the Murcbison llivcsr (Augustus Ohllleld). 'I'here is 

 a specimen, labelled "Tree ^iO-lO U'.et. Bark smootli. Tliieket near CoUcullia, 



