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marginatis, obscure trinerviis venosisque ; nmbellis axillaribus -S-G floris ; pedunculis angulatis petiolum 

 subaequantibus, pedicellos triple, cupulam paulo superantibus ; cupula obconica 4-costata, operculum 

 depresso-hemisphaericum muticum quadrviplo excedente. Folia bipollicaria aut parum longiora, 3-3i lin. 

 lata, punctis aliis opacis, interdum nigricantibus, aliis paucioribus pellucidis conspersa, petiolus fere 

 trilinealis. Filanienta alba. Cupula fructus parum aucta, prope orificium leviter constricta. Capsula 

 incliisa, vertice plana 4-locularis. Ad descriptionem E. amygdalina'., Labill., in multis accedit, sed nullam 

 reticulationem in foliis video, folia breviora, operculum depressum nee subconicuui, forsan etiam operculi 

 forma prae caeteris dignoscitur. E. cneorifolia et E. slricta iloribus sessilibus recedunt. E. pallens 

 pedunculis compressis et foliis 5-pollicaribus, E. ohtusiflora calycibus ecostatis. (Turcz., in Bull. Phys. 

 Math. Acad. Petersh., 10, 1852, p. 338.) 



The type is, as Turczaninow states, No. 34 of Drummond's 5tli collection. 



There is a glaucoiis form with fruits slightly urceolate, slightly rimmed, and 

 showing slight angularity. I think it is a well-marked variety of E. calycogona, 

 Turcz., and therefore proposed the name of var. celasti'oides for it in Froc. Linn. 

 Soc, N.S.W., 1902, p. 222. 



2. E. fruticetorum, T.v.M. 



I do not think that the original description of E. jriiticetorimi, F.v.M., had 

 been published in Australia until I transcribed it for the Proc. Linn. Soc, N.S.W., 

 1902. 



17. Eucalyptus frv/iticctorum., Ferd. Miill. MSS : frutex vel arbuscula, ramulis angulato-teretius- 

 culis, foliis nitidulis lanceolatis vel lanceolato-linearibus acuminatis crasse coriaceis, tenuiter patule 

 venulosis, pedunculis lateralibus et axillaribus 4-6 floris, floribus sessilibus, calycis tubo obconico anguloso 

 ruguloso quam operculum hemisphaerico-conicum acutatum triplo longiore. 



Frequens in deserto ad fl. Murray, fl. vere (F.M.). 



Decempedalis. Petioli semipoUicares. Folia 2i-3| poll, longa, 3-6 lin lata. Pedunculi 2 lin. 

 Alabastra operculata 2J lin. longa. 



Aflinis E. strictae Sieb. foliis latioribus lanceolatis vulgo rectis et operculo magis conico differt. 

 (Miq. in J^ederl. Kruidk., Arch. IV, 131, 1856.) 



I am aware of the confusion that has gathered around E. fruticetorum, but 

 Mr. Wilkinson's specimens, named E. fruticetorum by Mueller himself, although 

 gathered many years after the original type specimens were collected, answer the 

 description very well. Bentham (B.Fl. iii, 252) states that the West Australian 

 specimens referred to by Mueller in Fragm. ii, 57, are referred to E. loxophleba, 

 Benth., {E. joecunda, Schauer). They are also stated to be the E. santalifolia, 

 of Miq., {op. cit.) and Mueller in Trans. Vict. Inst, i, 35. 



Examination of old herbarium specimens has shown me that confusion of 

 material, such as that indicat(^d by Bentham, is by no means rare. 



E. fruticetorum, E.v.M., is glaucous, and is so very close to E. celastroides, 

 Turcz., that I think its proper place is under E. calycogona, Turcz., var. celastroides. 

 Maiden. 



The E. gracilis, E.v.M., figured by Mueller in the Eucalyptographia is not 

 typical E. calycogona, but in part a slightly angled form nearest to E. fruticetorum. 



