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These two species were afterwards united by Mueller in 

 his Census, but Bentham, in the Flora Australiensis, kept 

 them separate, and E. Cheel, in Ew. and Dav. Fl. N.T. 303 

 (1917), distinguishes them by the size of the leaves. It seems 

 to me that an examination of the flowers supports the specific 

 distinction. The flowers of M. glomerata were unknown when 

 Mueller's and Bentham's descriptions were written. 



Leaves slender, 1-1 J mm. broad; staminal bundles 3-4 

 mm. long, filaments 3-5; claw f-1 mm. long, much shorter 

 than the petal. . . . M. hakeoides. 



Leaves stouter, 2-2 J mm. broad; staminal bundles 6 mm. 

 long, filaments usually 7, sometimes 6 or 8, claw 2 mm. long, 

 equalling or slightly exceeding the petal. . . . M. glomerata. 



The localities for South Australia are as follow : — 



M. hakeoides. Aroona Range (R. Tate) ; Dalhousie 

 Springs, Moolooloo, Petermorra Springs (S. A. White); 

 Nuccaleena (E. H. Ising) ; Murnpeowie, Blanchewater Creek 

 (H. W. Andrew). The type came from "N.S. Wales. Mount 

 Goningberi, near Cooper Creek. Victorian Expedition." 

 (Benth. Fl. Aust, iii., 151.) The "Victorian Expedition" 

 is the name applied by Bentham to the Burke and Wills 

 Expedition of 1860-61, and "Mount Goningberi" is the Mount 

 Koonenberry of modern maps, situated near the route of the 

 unfortunate explorers and about 120 miles north-east of 

 Broken Hill. The collector was Dr. Hermann Beckler, 

 botanist and medical officer of the expedition. (*) 



M . glomerata. Leigh Creek (R. Tate) ; Glen Ferdinand, 

 Musgrave Range (S. A. White) ; Mount Ilbillie, Everard 

 Range (S. A. White). Mueller gives the type localities as 

 Lake Gregory, Arcoona, Lake Campbell; collector, D. Her- 

 golt. The "Lake Gregory" of Babbage's Expedition is South 

 Lake Eyre, and not the Lake Gregory of modern maps. This 

 species has a white "paper-bark"; I have no record of the 

 bark of M. hakeoides. 



Eucalyptus inter 'text a , R. T. Baker. Mount Patawurta, 

 near Moolooloo (E. H. Ising). Maiden (Crit. Rev. Euc. iv., 

 171, ann. 1919) has already recorded the occurrence of this 



(i) Not to be confused with Dr. Ludwig Becker, "artist, 

 naturalist, and geological director" of the expedition, who died 

 at the Bulloo Camp, in Queensland, just beyond the border of 

 New South Wales, on April 30, 1861. Dr. Hermann Beckler was 

 also at this camp, in charge of the sick. He had, along with 

 Landells, tendered his resignation in September, 1860, but at 

 request of Burke '"he agreed to remain in charge of the stores 

 at Menindie until arrangements could he made to forward them 

 to Cooper Creek." He returned from Bulloo to Menindie with 

 Wright (the third officer) in May, 1861. Dr. L. Becker drew and 

 lithographed several of the plates for Mueller's ' 'Plants indigenous 

 to the Colony of Victoria" (1860-62). 



