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(rf) Hartley's Mill, Glen Innes (H. Deane). This is a very interesting specimen, 

 of which leaves and fruits (not quite ripe) are alone available. It was 

 referred doubtfully to E. eugenioides by Deane and Maiden, in Fi'oc. Linn. 

 Soc. N.S.7F., 1896, 805. (See fig. 13, pi. 38.) 



It is, I think, a transit form between E. macrorrhyncha and E. 

 Muelleriana. It can be looked upon as an extreme form of the pear- 

 shaped fruited macrorrhyncha specimens just referred to. The figure will 

 explain it, and I will only add that I have iiot noticed the grooving of the 

 rim, which is clear in this form, other than in E. macrorrhyncha. 



{e) Warialda (J. L. Boorman), and the trees also examined by me. Apparently 

 rare in the district. Occurs on the Inverell-road, near the dry creek with 

 a bridge, under 2 miles from the township. The timber is warm brown. 

 The suckers (some of them) nearly as narrow, perhaps quite as narrow, as 

 ever seen in E. eugenioides. (See fig. 21, pi. 89.) 



The fruits are quite small, and there is almost an entire absence 

 of angularity of the rim. Occasionally angularity is observed. This form 

 is obviously similar to {d), and it is an extreme form of E. macrorrhyncha. 



AFFINITIES. 



1. E. capitellata, Sm. 



In specific botanical affinity E. macrorrhyncha stands nearest to H. capitellata : leaves and fruits 

 of both are the same ; but the flowers of the latter are always sessile, or nearly so, and thus crowded into 

 heads as the species-name signifies, besides being usually smaller ; the lid of Ji\ capitellata is hemispheric, 

 without any prominent point, and shorter in proportion to the tube, the latter being also more angular, 

 and downward less attenuated. — {Euealyptographia, Mueller, under E. macrorrhyncha.) 



That E. capitellata and E. macrorrhyncha possess points of resemblance is 

 apparent to the most superficial observer. A comparison of the two may be roughly 

 tabulated as follows : — E. capitellata — Operculum obtuse. Flowers and fruits 

 sessile, or nearly so. Fruit expanded below the rim, 



E. macrorrhyncha. — Operculum acuminate, or conical. Flowers and fruits 

 strongly pedicellate ; calyx border prominent. 



But these characters are not absolute, and only belong to the types, 

 considerable variation occurring in some specimens. 



I cannot separate E. capitellata and E. macrorrhyncha on juvenile leaves, 

 and agree with Mueller's dictum, "leaves and fruits of both are the same" ; their 

 limits are simply indefinable. 



