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This does not appear to obtain in E. viminalis. The latter frequents banks of 

 rivers and swampy places ; the former is a denizen of dry hills, so far as we know at 

 present. At the same time I do not know any species which it resembles more closely 

 than that of E. viminalis. 



2. With E. Gunnii Hook. f. 



" It differs from E. Gunnii in the marked curvature of the leaves and their thinner venules, reduced 

 inflorescence, constant obliteration of pedicels, somewhat angular calyx-tube, longer pointed lid, larger 

 fruits less downward attenuated and rather long-valved, also in the foliage of the young seedlings." 

 (Original description.) 



E. Gunnii and E. Baeuerleni are sharply separated from each other by the broad 

 juvenile leaves of the former ; the mature foliage is also shorter and the venation different. 

 Compare Plate 108 of Part XXVI. 



3. With E. goniocalyx F.v.M. 



" This species in many respects approaches E. goniocalyx, but the leaves are of a darker green, have 

 the venules more immersed, and are more pellucidly dotted ; the peduncles are shorter and bear a lesser 

 number of flowers." (Original description.) 



Compare Plate 81, where it will be seen that the buds and fruits of E. goniocalyx 

 are sufficiently different. As a very general rule the juvenile foliage of the two species 

 does not present a close resemblance, but, exceptionally, the juvenile foliage (compare 

 fig. 1 of Plate 81) of E. goniocalyx may resemble that of E. Baeuerleni, but, even then, 

 the leaves of E. goniocalyx are more cordate, and the young stems more quadrangular. 



Mueller, however, at the time he described E. goniocalyx considered it to include 

 his E. elajophora (compare Plate 82), but the juvenile leaves of E. Baeuerleni and 

 E. elceophora are sharply different and so indeed are the buds, though in the case of some 

 of the larger fruits of E. elceophora there is some resemblance, although one or more 

 angles is prominent as a rule in the fruits of E. elceophora. E. goniocalyx is a large tree. 



4. With E. leueoxylon F.v.M. 



" The lid is much pointed, almost like that of E. leueoxylon." (Original description.) 

 I do not think a general comparison is intended. The juvenile leaves of the 

 two species are very different. 



5. With E. resinifera Sm. 



" The fruit is larger and nearly as broad as long with elongated and thus much emerging valves, 

 hence more like that of E. resinifera, and the leaves of young seedlings are from roundish-oval to elliptic 

 and soon scattered." (Original description.) 



E. resinifera is a red-wooded, fibrous-barked species; the two species have no 

 close affinity. 



