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AFFINITIES. 



1. E. incrassata, Labill. 



" also in the collection of Baudin's Expedition. Different as the long 



and the short fruits appear, there are numerous intermediate forms, and the specimens 

 do not otherwise differ." (B.P1. hi, 253.) 



Doubtless Bentham referred to the following specimens, which I also have 

 examined, in the Paris Museum and in other collections. 



" Voyage du Capitaine Baudin, 1801, Nouv. Hollande. lies Steriles." In 

 bud only : buds dark, small lanceolate coriaceous leaves, venation not prominent. 



This series appears to me to show transit between E. foecunda, Schauer, and 

 E. incrassata, Labill. In fact the coarser specimens seem undoubtedly to approach 

 E. incrassata. The rim of the fruit is reminiscent of E. incrassata ; the buds of 

 the smaller forms remind one a good deal of var. dumosa of that species ; the 

 anthers are also, though slenderer, similar to those of incrassata (as well as 

 of E. foecunda). In other respects, even to the blue-green of the foliage (parti- 

 cularly noticeable in some leaves) the affinity of these forms is with E. foecunda. 



The localities . for the plants collected by Captain Baudin's Expedition that 

 are available tome are labelled either "lies Steriles,"* "He Decres," (Kangaroo 

 Island) or simply " Cote Occidentale." If by this is meant (in any instance) the 

 west coast of Western Australia, I shall be glad of any information as to his 

 collecting grounds. 



Let us examine some further specimens. 



" No. 3,226. Frut. 1-2 m. alt. White Peak, pr. Champion Bay, in limosis 

 lapidosis." (L. Diels, 28th June, 1901.) 



These specimens are in bud and fruit only. 



• "lies Steriles." It is very important to trace the localities whence the old collectors obtained their plants. We 

 see this locality again quoted "lies Steriles (Recherche Archipelago?) Herb. Mus. Par. I am not sure which of the 

 islands off the south or west coast are provisionally designated under the above name, which appears never to have 

 been published." (Bentham in B.F1. vi, 67.) 



The Recherche Archipelago is between 120° and 125° east longitude (e.g., between King George's Sound and the 

 Great Australian Bight). See Flinders' Charts, &c, "South Coast, sheet i" (to accompany his Voyage to Terra 

 Australis). 



There is a coast discovered by Capt Nicholas Baudin, 1802, in Flinders' Charts (South Coast, sheet iv), which is 

 now included in South Australia, including The Coorong to the vicinity of Cape Buffon (approaching the South Australian- 

 Victorian boundary). 



So that the localities of Captain Baudin's plants are probably either from the south coast of Western Australia or 

 from the South Australian coast. 



