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Mr. R. T. Baker's E. Wilk'msouiana, E. iiiyra, and E. hecopuiea, var. Dihior, 

 are transit forms, but as, in my opinion, they are nearer to typical eugenloides than 

 to the present species, I shall defer consideration of them. 



It will he found that not only have we connecting links between E. pllularis 

 and E. eugenloides, but E. 2)ilnlaris also connects them with other stringybarks, 

 E. capitellafa and E. macrorrhyncha. 



2. E. piperita, Sm. — This species and E. eugenioldes are so closely related 

 that any species possessing affinity to the one may be looked upon as possessing 

 affinity to the other. The proper Avay to study the matter is to examine the series 

 connecting E. eugenioides and E. piperita, such specimens being largely developed 

 in Victoria and southern New South Wales. 



I have specimens from the National Park, 20 miles south of Sydney, 

 collected by Mr. Julius Camfield, with the inflorescence in a dense raceme and 

 the fruits large and ovoid, showing, in the latter respect, an approximation to 

 E. piperita. (Fig. 1, PI. 1.) The operculum is not as long as that of E. piiidaris 

 usually is, and the filaments are white although they have been collected for a 

 considerable period . 



Bentham alludes to the affinity of E. piiidaris to E. p)i2)erita in the following 

 words. While the former is not related to the latter so closely as to some other 

 species, the affinity is there and must not be neglected : — 



E. pipcnfa is sometimes difficult to distinguish in the dried state from some forms of E. ohliqua, 

 and on the other liand it approaches E. piiidaris, differing from both of them generally but not strictly, 

 as well in the foliage as in the bud and operculum, but more readily in the fruit. The variety eugenioides 

 (E. eugenioides, Sieb.) is, however, in some respects almost intermediate between E. piperita and 

 E. pihilaris, var. acmenioidns (K. acmenioides, Schauer). — (J'.Fl., iii, 208.) 



3. E. capitellata, Sm. — Both in Victoria and South Australia jilants have 

 been named E. capitellata by excellent botanists which have proved to be 

 E. pllularis, var. Iluellerlana ; for example, specimens from the Grampians and 

 Wimmera in the former State and Mount Lofty Range in the latter. In our 

 own State, specimens from Mount Wilson and other localities are nearer to 

 var, Muelleriana than to E. capitellata. Of covu-se, true E. capitellata occurs in 

 all three States. The most obvious characters of the latter sjiecies are its sessile, 

 compressed fruits and angular !)uds, tlie former a consequence of the latter. 



•1. E. macrorrhyncha, P.v.M. — The affinity of E. pilularis to this species 

 ■s so close that I must frankly say that I have a number of specimens which I 

 liesitate to place under one species rather than under another. A connecting 

 link is Bentham's var. hrachijcori/s of E. macron-hynchd of which I give some 

 particulars under E. jrilnlaris as a matter of convenience. 



E. macrorrhyncha, F.v.M., var. Iracliycorys, Bcnth. New England, C Stuart. A mounlniii 

 species. ]?ark separating; in fibres likr; tin- V.I). Tiaiid A', r/igniilea (('. Stuart). 



