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SYNONYMS. 



1. \i\Y. (r) brachycorys, Bontli. 



2. E. scyphoidea, Kaudin. 



NOTES ON THE SYNONYMS. 



Var. (?) brachycorys, Bentli. 



Opprculum short and obtuse. Fruit of £. macrorrhyncha. Expanded flowers not seen, and 

 therefore affinities uncertain. New England, N.S.W., Stringybark, C. Stuart — B.Fl. iii, 207. 



The variety brachycorys, mentioned by Bentham, seems transferable to E. capitellata, unless, 

 indeed, it should prove distinct from both, when as a species it could be kept apart under the above 

 designation. — (Mueller, Eucalyplogrciphia, under E. macrorrhyncha.) 



The variety brachycorys, doubtfully referred by Bentham to E. viaerorrhyncha from New England 

 (near Timbarra) at elevations about 2,000 feet, may possibly be a form of E. capitellata, with which it shares 

 the blunt lid, though the calyces are attenuated into distinct and slender stalklets ; but the bark of this 

 tree, though stringy, is said to be separating in patches, and, curiously enough, the tree is locally called 

 Spotted Gum tree.* The fruits are rather more depressed. Expanded flowers remained unknown. — 

 {Eucalyptograjyhia, under E. capitellata.) 



I have seen Stuart's sjieciinens, and tliey have thick leaves, with -well-marked 

 venation. Buds rounded, shining. Pruits sharply rimmed and grooved. Pig. 14, 

 pi. 39, makes this form clear. 



I cannot agree that it is a variety, and Bentham was himself doubtful on 

 that point. It is an unstable form and it touches the normal form and adjacent 

 species in various ways. It is especially common in the Northern Districts. 



The shar2:)ness of the rim, Avhich seems to be the most pronounced character, 

 apjicar.s to be accidental, and to be less accentuated as ripening of the fruit proceeds. 

 It is seen in specimens from widely diifcrent localities, e.(j., Cootamundra to Grenfell 

 (A. Osborne) ; Borenore (H. Deane) ; Canoblas, Orauge (A. W. Howitt) ; Capertee 

 and Sunny Corner (J.II.M. and J. L. Boorman) ; Emmaville (E. C. Andrews). 



2. E. scyphoidea, Naudin. 



I do not know where it was described. 



Copy of a label, in Herb. Mus. Paris, in M. Naudiu's handwriting : — 



Eucalyptus scyphoidea, Ndn. Species nova. Trouve dans le jardin Nabonnand au Golf'e Juan. 

 Arbre unicjue dans le pays. Villa Thuret, 1899. Ch. Ndn."— (Maiden, Proc. Linn. Sac. N.S.W., 1903.) 



It is a form of E. macrorrhyncha, commonest in the Northern Districts, 

 which, with var. (?) brachycorys, h simply indistinguishable from the normal species. 

 It has buds nearly normal, while the fruit tends to the spherical shape that is common 

 in many specimens of this species, as will be readily seen from examination of the 

 fia'urcs. 



" I do not know the authority for this statement. Charles Stuait's note on a New England specimen (Herb. Melb.) 

 is " A mountain species. Bark separating in fibres like the Van Dienien's Land Egiiianlea {E. ob/iqua)." I have seen 

 the tree in the forest. 



