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Varieties. 



1. Vai'. minor, nov. var. 

 -. Var. elongata, nov. var. 

 3. Var. Rameliana, nov. var. 



It is a very variable species, and it would appear that definition of the 

 following varieties is justified. 



1. Var. minor, nov. var. This is intended to include E. pachyphylla. F.v.M. 

 For some notes on this species, see page 225. Figured at 5-7, Plate 75. 



2. Var. elongata, nov. var., with the cah'x-tuhe much attenuated and tapering 

 gradually into the pedicel. The type is figured at 1, Plate 76. In typical 

 pyriformis tlie pedicel is short, hut the character is variable. 



3 Var, Rameliana, nov. var., a small fruited form with an absence of ridges 

 and furrows on the bud and flower. This is intended to include E. Rameliana, F.v.M., 

 and is figured at 5, Plate 76. 



SYNONYMS. 



1. E. pniinosa, Turcz. 



2. E. macroealyx, Turcz. 



3. E. erythrocalyx, Oldtield ami Mueller. 



4. E. Youngiana, F.v.M. 



5. E. Rameliana, F.v.M. 

 0. E. pachijphijlla, F.v.M. 



1. E. pniinosa, Turcz. 



On the page following the description of E. pyriformis we have : — 



Eucalyptus pruinosa. Glabra, ramis teretibus fuscis, novellis glaucescentibus ; foliis alternis 

 petiolatis oval is acuminatis, basi rotundati.s vel parum attenuatis, inarginatis, opacis, obscure vpnosis; 

 glaucis ; pedunculis reciirvato-reflexis crassis teretibus 1-2-floris ; pedicellis brevibus obconico tetragonis, 

 in cupulam turbiiiato-tetrag mum, lateribus costatam pruinosani abeuntibus, costis in pedunculum 

 decurrentibus ; filamentis longe exsertis rufis ; opercnlo. Stirps, propter s|iecimina, jam operculo orbata, quo 

 ad locum in genere incerta, etiamsi ab omnibus cognitis videtur bene distincta, accedit ad E. pyriformem 

 cupularum magnitiidine pedunculi.sque recurvatis saepe unifioris. Drum. 4, n. 70. (Turez. in Bull. Soc. 

 Nat. Mosc, xxii, Pt. 2, p. 23 [1849].) 



TIlis may be translated as follows : — 



Glabrous, with terete brown branches, the new ones glaucous ; altei'nate petiolate. ovate acuminate 

 leaves, rounded at the base or a little attenuate, marginate, opaque, obscurely veined, glaucous ; peduncles 

 recurved-reflexed, terete, thick ; 1-2-flowered, with short obconical teti-agonous pedicels ending in a turbinat?- 

 tetragonous calyx tube with pruinose lateral ribs, the ribs Recurrent into the peduncle, with long exserted 

 rufous filaments : (operculum wanting in specimen examined). 



As the specimen is devoid of an operculum, the position in the genus is uncertain, but it approaches 

 nearest to E. pyriformif in the size of the calyx-tube, and the recurved, often one-flowered peduncles. 



