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The following specimens are in the National Herbarium, Sydney : — 



(a) "Heath near Portland Bay, 20th March, 1842 (J. G. Robertson)," twigs 

 hearing fruit. 



(b) " Heath, 10 miles west of Roseneath, Glenclg Elver. Stringybark. Bark 



not deciduous, timber white, from 10 to 30 feet high, 21st January, 1844" 

 (J. G. Robertson, No. 493) ; twigs hearing buds. 



(c) "Heath, Steephank Rivulet, growing at foot of 498, and supposed to be 



young of it, 12th June, 1843 " (J. G. Robertson, No. 500) ; juvenile foliage. 



They are all E. capitellata, Sm., not differing sufficiently from the type to be 

 called a variety. They are very close to the Port Jackson specimens, and certainly 

 not broader leaved. 



3. E. Baxteri, R.Br. (?) 



E. santalifolia, F.v.M., var. (?) Baxteri. Leaves ovate, or ovate-oblong, obtuse, usually very 

 oblique, under 3 in. long, very thick, with oblique, scarcely conspicuous veins. Pencluncles thick and 

 angular, mostly very short. Flowers closely sessile in a dense head. Calyx-tube nearly 3 lines diameter, 

 and shorter than broad. Operculum thick and hemispherical, the buds nearly globular. Ovary flat- 

 topped. R. Baxleri, E.Br. Herb. S. Coast, probably Kangaroo Island, Baxter {Herb. R.Br.). The 

 h?ads of the flowers are very much like those of E. d.umosa, var. conglobata, but the operculum, and 

 especially the anthers, are quite different. Fruit not seen. — (B.F1. iii, 207.) 



I wrote to Mr. James Britten, Department of Botany, British Museum, who 

 kindly allowed Miss M. Smith, of Kew, to make drawings of two sheets of specimens 

 in the herbarium under his charge. Both are twigs in flower and plump hud. One 

 specimen bears the labels, "Eucalyptus, Mr. ffm. Baxter, received 1828; probably 

 South Coast, perhaps Kangoroo (Brown in 1828 spelt Kangaroo thus) Island, or 

 possibly V. D. Land " (E. Brown). 



" E. Baxteri, E.Br., perhaps a var. of capitellata" (Bentham). 



'•' Eucalyptus santalifolia, P.M., var. Baxteri, Benth. PI. Austral, iii, p. 207." 



The second specimen is labelled "Eucalyptus, Mr. Wm. Baxter, received 

 1828, E. santalifolia, P. Muell., var. Baxteri, Benth. PI. Austral, iii, p. 207." 



Mr. Britten sent me a fragment of the type, and wrote: " I cannot make out 

 where Bentham found the name E. Baxteri, Br., which he puts on the sheet. The 

 plant is not described in Brown's MSS." 



The following specimens in the National Herbarium, Sydney, precisely match 

 the above : — 



(a) " Major Mitchell's Heath, near Portland, 20th March, 1842. Supposed 

 497 of J. G. E." (J. G. Robertson, No. 503.) 



(b) " Pive miles from Portland, on road to Bridgewater Bay. Shrub 0-10 feet 



high. 5th February, 1841." (J. G. Robertson, No. 497.) 

 Both these specimens are in flower and early fruit ; No. 503 is in ripe fruit 

 also. Both are E. capitella'a, Sm. Some of the leaves of the Portland Bay 

 specimens resemble those oE some Victorian and South Australian specimens of 



