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adult trees. The illustration indicates well that the leaves of 

 the young seedlings are opposite sessile and oval, a sort of char- 

 acteristic which is particularly applicable for the discrimination 

 of specific forms also in this genus ("Eucalyptographia," under E. 

 santalifolia). 



Bessa's plate (not "Massa," as printed in Messrs. Baker 

 and Smith's paper) was before me when I wrote my Crit. 

 Rev., part vii., although, for reasons of space, I only 

 reproduced a pair of juvenile leaves (fig. 5, plate xxxvi.). I 

 have the plate again before me, and I say that (though not 

 faultless, according to our modern standards), it is certainly 

 the most complete of the early drawings of eucalypts, showing 

 practically everything that a modern botanist requires, 

 and is perhaps the earliest detailed drawing which especially 

 depicts the contrasting juvenile foliage. If, as it appears, 

 it is Mr. Baker's object to follow Mueller in suppressing Bon- 

 pland's species, I do not think he will get any botanist to 

 agree with him. 



Mueller not only suppressed diversifolia in favour of his 

 own santalifolia, but many years later he included pachyloma 

 with his species, and in the "Eucalyptographia" (under E. 

 santalifolia), he goes on to make deductions as to the similari- 

 ties and dissimilarities of his E. santalifolia (his "Eucalypto- 

 graphia" species, and not his original species) with E. 

 capitellata, E. diversifolia, and E. viminalis, which are quite 

 erroneous because of his wrong identification. 



Mr. Baker goes on to say, p. 469: — "Bentham, when 

 mentioning this species (E. santalifolia) under E. viminalis 

 [Bentham never mentioned E. santalifolia under E. viminalis; 

 he mentioned E. diversifolia. — J. H. M.], states that 'the 

 flowers are rather numerous in the umbel and the fruit large.' 

 Now six flowers are the most we have seen in E. santalifolia 

 [I have seen as many as seven, but usually not more than 

 six. — J. H. M.]. Mueller's figure shows only three at the 

 most." The fact is, Mueller's figure is E. pachyloma, which 

 Bentham describes as having peduncles "each with 2 to 4 

 rather large flowers." 



Mr. Baker says he has not seen Massa's (Bessa's) plate. 

 He stresses Bentham's confusion of E. diversifolia with E. 

 viminalis — one of Bentham's few mistakes — and as the mis- 

 take is perfectly well ascertained, there seems no special 

 reason to emphasize it on the present occasion. 



I will deal further with E. pachyloma in my Crit. Rev., 

 as promised in Journ. W.A. Nat. Hist. Soc, iii., p. 166 

 (Jan., 1911), where I rehabilitated it. It has not been 

 further dealt with, as other species appeared to require earlier 

 attention. 



