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from such a case of juvenile foliage. It is figured at 2a, Plate 62 (incidentally I 

 may point out that a similar condition is shown at 9a, Plate 62, in the case of 

 E. leptophylla, attributed in the Plate to E. uncmata, and also at p. 144). Bentham 

 (B.F1. Ill, 216) probably referred to this when (under E. uncmata) he says, " The young 

 plant has sometimes ovate opposite leaves." 



Other cases of this form of " juvenile precocity " include Kalgan Plains, 

 (J.H.M.). In the legend of fig. 3, Plate 62 (Part XIV, p. 162) I have the words 

 " These leaves show that in E. uncinate the juvenile leaves sometimes persist to 

 maturity — in other words, that we have dimorphism." Kalgan Plains, north of the 

 Kalgan River, W.A. (J.H.M.). See also fig. 4. 



A similar case is Cranbrook (F. Stoward, Xo. 176), unfigured. In such cases we 

 have broad juvenile leaves on the same twig as flowering, narrowish mature ones. At 

 the same time, it is proper to point out that, as a rule, there is evidence of a trauma — 

 an injury to the branch, which induces the growth of these broadish, juvenile leaves. 



Xote that the young leaves are ovate-cordate and therefore stem-clasping. For 

 example, 3a, Plate 62. See also Xo. 5 of Plate 63, where a juvenile leaf from Desmond, 

 near Eavensthorpe (J.H.M.) although attributed to E. decipiens, is really E. uncinata. 



2. var. rostrata Benth. 



Drummond's Xo. 186 is, as I have stated in Part XIV, p. 144, figured at fig. 15 

 Plate 66, Part XV. It is referred to at pp. 172, 173 as E. oleosa var. glauca, and at 

 p. 269, Part XXXIV, var. glauca is raised to specific rank as E. transcontinentalis 

 Maiden. In other words, var. rostrata has no existence as such. 



"What I have said about var. (?) major Benth., in Part XIV, p. 144, may be 

 referred to. I think it is E. uncinata, but hardly a variety. The species grows coarse 

 (" major ") near the sea. 



Illustrations. — Part XIV, Plate 62, figures 1 (the type), 2 (including 

 inflorescence when in the juvenile-leaved stage), 3 (including typical juvenile leaves), 

 4 (ditto), 7, 14, 15. E. uncinata seems to me to be adequately figured. 



RANGE. 



For many years we have looked upon this species as extending from Western 

 Australia, through South Australia, Victoria and Xew South Wales (see Part XIV, 

 p. 145). This investigation shows that it is. confined to Western Australia and to the 

 coastal districts of the south-west of that State. 



