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marginatis, obscure trinerviis venosisque ; urubellis axillaribus 3-6 floris ; pedunculis angulatis petiolum 

 subaequantibus, pedicellos triplo, cupulam paulo superantibus ; cupula obconica 4-costata, operculum 

 depresso-heniisphaericum muticuru quadruplo excedente. Folia bipollicaria aut parum longiora, 3-3J lin. 

 lata, punctis aliis opacis, interdum nigricantibus, aliis paucioribus pellucidis conspersa, petiolus fere 

 trilinealis. Filamenta alba. Cupula fructus parum aucta, prope orificium leviter constricta. Capsula 

 inclusa, vertice plana 4-locularis. Ad descriptionem E. amygdalinm, Labill., in rnultis accedit, sed nullam 

 reticulationem in foliis video, folia breviora, operculum depressum nee subconicum, forsan etiam operculi 

 forma prae caeteris dignoscitur. E. cneorifolia et E. striata floribus sessilibus recedunt. E. pallens 

 pedunculis compressis et foliis 5-pollicaribus, E. obtusiflora calycibus ecostatis. (Turcz., in Bull. Phys. 

 Math. Acad. Peter sb., 10, 1852, p. 338.) 



The type is, as Turczaninow states, No. 34 of Druminond's 5tli collection. 



There is a glaucous form with fruits slightly urceolate, slightly rimmed, and 

 showing slight angularity. I think it is a well-marked variety of E. calycogona, 

 Turcz., and therefore proposed the name of var. celastroides for it in Proc. Linn. 

 Soc., N.S. W., 1902, p. 222. 



2. E. frutieetorum, F.v.M. 



I do not think that the original description of E. frutieetorum, F.v.M., had 

 been published in Australia until I transcribed it for the Proc. Linn. Soc, N.S. TV., 

 1902. 



17. Eucalyptus friucticctorum, Ferd. Mull. MSS : frutex vel arbuscula, ramulis angulato-teretius- 

 culis, foliis nitidulis lanceolatis vel lanceolato-linearibus acuminatis crasse coriaceis, tenuiter patule 

 venulosis, pedunculis lateralibus et axillaribus 4-6 floris, floribus sessilibus, calycis tubo obconico anguloso 

 ruguloso quam operculum bemispbaerico-conicum acutatum triplo longiore. 



Frequens in deserto ad fl. Murray, fl. vere(F.M.). 



Decempedalis. Petioli semipollicares. Folia 2i— 3^ poll, longa, 3-6 lin lata. Pedunculi 2 lin. 

 Alabastra operculata 21 lin. longa. 



Afiinis E. strictae Sieb. foliis latioribus lanceolatis vulgo rectis et operculo magis conico differt. 

 (Miq. in Nederl. Kruidk., Arch. IV, 131, 1856.) 



I am aware of the confusion that has gathered around E. frutieetorum, but 

 Mr. Wilkinson's specimens, named E. frutieetorum by Mueller himself, although 

 gathered many years after the original type specimens were collected, answer the 

 description very well. Bentham (B.F1. iii, 252) states that the West Australian 

 specimens referred to by Mueller in Fragm. ii, 57, are referred to E. loxophleba, 

 Benth., (E. Joecunda, Schauer). They are also stated to be the E. santalifolia, 

 of Miq., [op. cit.) and Mueller in Trans. Vict. Inst, i, 35. 



Examination of old herbarium specimens has shown me that confusion of 

 material, such as that indicated by Bentham, is by no means rare. 



E. frutieetorum, F.v.M., is glaucous, and is so very close to E. celastroides, 

 Turcz., that I think its proper place is under E. calycogona, Turcz., var. celastroides, 

 Maiden. 



The E. gracilis, F.v.M., figured by Mueller in the Eucalyptographia is not 

 typical E. calycogona, but in part a slightly angled form nearest to E. frutieetorum. 



