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The buds and the peculiar bluish-green tint of the twigs remind one of 

 Captain Baudin's specimens of E. foecunda. The sub-conical fruits remind one 

 irresistibly of some E. incrassata from Victoria {e.g., C. Walter, Lake Hindmarsh, 

 Oct., 1899), in fact, I am unable to distinguish between them. I go so far as to say 

 that Diels' specimens would have been named E. incrassata had they been found in 

 Victoria, and Walter's specimens would probably (except, perhaps, because of the 

 more pointed operculum) have been naxaedi foecunda had they been found in Western 

 Australia. 



While, partly in view of Baudin's specimens, feeling that they belong to 

 E. foecunda, I label them as undoubtedly showing transit to E. incrassata. 



A specimen collected by R. Brown, and bearing the only label in his hand- 

 writing " Bay iii" * (south coast of Australia, South to West Australia), is in bud 

 only. It was collected 1802-5, and was distributed by the British Museum in 1876. 

 I have figured it at Plate 19, fig. 5. 



I do not remember to have seen anything precisely like it. 



I look upon it as another of the forms between E. foecunda and E. incrassata. 

 I will content myself with pointing out that the " egg-in-egg-cup " arrangement of 

 the buds, i.e., the swollen calyx, of larger diameter than the ovate operculum, remind 

 one of E. salubris. The egg-in-egg-cup arrangement is less frequently seen in 

 E. incrassata, but it is sometimes seen in that species. The fruits of E. salubris 

 also remind one of those of Robert Brown's specimens of E. incrassata var. 

 conglobata of " Bay ix." Perhaps these few suggestions will help botanists to 

 elucidate the " Bay iii " specimens, but I think further collecting on the South 

 Australian and south coast of Western Australia is necessary. 



It is sometimes not easy to define the boundary between E. foecunda and the 

 var. dumosa of E. incrassata, E. incrassata has usually broader leaves, and the 

 timber is paler. The buds and fruits of E. foecunda are not at all, or only very 

 slightly, angular ; those of var. dumosa usually show, even in the smoothest 

 forms, a slight corrugation. The buds of E. foecunda are usually more pointed, but 

 this is not an absolute criterion. The fruits sometimes tend to those of E. piperita 

 in shape. No form of E. incrassata attains large size, so far as is known, and 

 E. foecunda, in its typical form, is but a shrub. 



I frequently cannot distinguish between the anthers of E. incrassata and 

 E. foecunda. Turning to the Flora Australiensis and Jlucalyptographia for guidance 

 we find : — 



incrassata. — Anthers ovate-oblong with distinct parallel cells (B.FL). Anthers from roundish-oval 

 to almost oblong, opening by ample longitudinal slits (Eucalyptographia). 



• III Robert Brown's handwriting a number of his specimens collected on the south "coast of Australia are labelled 

 with provisional localities, e.g., " Bay iii," " Bay viii," " Bay ix," and so on. I cannot trace them in Flinders' Chart or 

 .Journal, and perliaps some of Brown's M.S. notes or ampler labels in some herbaria may give clues to their precise 

 localities, and then we sliall be in a position to collect additional material and set at rest the identity of a number of Brown's 

 specimens. 



