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DESCRIPTION. 



CCC VIII. x E. Blackburniana Maiden. 



Reputed parents, E. odorata Behr. and Schleeht, and (?). 



This has already been described, under No. XLIV (a), " An Ironbark Box," in Part XI, 

 p. 38 of this work, February, 1910, and figured figs, a to i, Plate 52. 



As I suspected it to be a hybrid (see Part XI, p. 39) I did not give it a name, 

 except in .MS. (intending to name it with other hybrids), and only distributed it to 

 Mr. R. T. Baker and to the Melbourne Herbarium. Mr. Baker inadvertently published 

 the name in Joitni. Roy. Soc. S.A., xl, 478 (1916), which I presume is therefore the date 

 of the species. 



I named it in honour of John Blackburne, formerly Conservator of Forests of 

 Victoria, who lias long taken great interest in the elucidation of Victorian Eucalypts. 



RANGE. 



The type comes from Inglewood, Victoria (J. Blackburne, No. 14). 1 have seen 

 imperfect specimens from the Wimmera, which are closely allied to, if not identical 

 with, the Inglewood tree. I have not seen similar specimens out of Victoria, but it is 

 reasonable to expect it from south-western New South Wales and middle-eastern South 

 Australia. 



AFFINITIES. 



Those with E. Bosistoana F.v.M., and E. bicolor A. Cunn., are dealt with in 

 Part XI, p. 39. 



Its closest affinity seems to be to E. odorata Behr and Schleeht, near which I 

 tentatively placed it (op. cit., p. 38.) 



