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StilHienS. — Ra e-coloured, i inch long or more, slender and inflected in the bud ; anthers ovate, 

 with distinct parallel cells. 



Disc. — Concave. 



Fruit. — Sessile, depressed-globose, 7 to S lines diameter, with the very thick, broad, convex and 

 raised rim of E. Oldfieldii, but without any depressed centre, the capsule not sunk, and the small valves 

 protruding as in E. rostrata 



TV. Australia, Drummond, 4-th, Coll. No. 6-1; sand plains, Kalgan River, Oh/field; valleys of the 

 Stirling Range, Maxwell (B.F1. iii, 237.) 



E. santalifolia, F.v.M., var. (?) Baxteri, Benth. (B.F1. iii, 207). (E. Baxteri, 

 R.Br., Herb.), is E. capitellata, Sm., and will be dealt with in the n^xt Part. 



RANGE. 



Bonpland states that the seed of his species came from Captain Baudin's 

 Expedition, " qui en a apporte les graines de la Nouvelle-Hollande." Bentham says 

 the seed came from Kangaroo Island. Besides this South Australian locality (it is 

 also found on the mainland of South Australia), it also occurs in Western Australia, 

 and recently I have recorded it from Victoria also.* It is both a coastal and a 

 desert species ; indeed, in South and Western Australia the desert flora comes to the 

 coast. The type of E. santalifolia came from the Mallee scrub on the Murray River. 



Mueller gives the following localities : — " In sandy desert country, as also in 

 scrubby valleys or on arid ridges near King George's Sound (Drummond) ; on the 

 Williams River (Webb) ; near the Kalgan River (Oldfield) ; at the base of the 

 Stirling Ranges (F.v.M.) ; at Venus Bay (Clode) ; in various localities near Spencer's 

 Gulf (Wilhelmi) ; in the vicinity ot Lake Albert (Irvine) ; on Kangaroo Island 

 (Waterhouse) .... Prof. Ralph Tate noticed that E. santalifolia, together 

 with . . . . E. cneorifolia, DC, constitutes the predominant scrubs of Kangaroo 

 Island, that the bark is smooth and separates in long and thin shreds, that the 

 species is found chiefly on ancient shell-beaches with fresh water below, and that it 

 does not attain a height above 20 feet." — (" Eucalyptographia," under E. santalifolia.) 



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South Australia. 



Following are some Kangaroo Island specimens in the National Herbarium, 

 Sydney :— 



1. "Eucalyptus, South Coast, Bays 9, 10," in R. Brown's handwriting. 

 Coll. 1802-5. No. 4,743 of J. J. Bennett's distribution from the British Museum, 

 1876, labelled " E. obliqua (?)." 



* Vict. Nat., xxi, 116(1904). 



