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E. Mnelleriaua, Howitt (E. pilularis, Sm,, var. Muelleriana, Maiden), but the buds 

 and fruit are different, the buds especially so. In a word, Robertson's 497, 498, 

 500, 503 are conspecific, in spite of the fact that under var. (?) latifolia Bentham 

 draws attention to a certain difference in the shape of the calyx. 



Bentham's inclusion of Baxter's specimens under E. santalifolia, F.v.M. 

 (E. diversifolia, Bonpl.), is a mistake. E. diversifolia has uniformly narrower leaves, 

 not to mention other points. At the same time, the geographical limits of E. 

 capitellata, Sm., E. diversifolia, Bonpl., and E. Muelleriana, Howitt, unite near the 

 Victorian-South Australian boundary, and botanists would do well to be on their 

 guard not to commit the very pardonable error of confusing them with imperfect 

 material. Portland Bay is on the south coast, 230 miles west of Melbourne, and 

 about the same distance east of Adelaide. 



I have recently received the same form from Portland (Mr. Adams, through 

 Mr. A. E. Kitson), also specimens from Dagholm, also in Victoria (A. W. Howitt). 



RANGE. 



This species is confined to New South Wales, Victoria, and Soutli Australia. 



New South Wales. 



It has already been stated that the type came from Port Jackson. Around 

 Sydney it appears to be almost (perhaps entirely) confined to the sandstone. 



Northern, Districts. — The following coastal specimens are strictly typical : — 

 Morriset (A. Murphy). " Bark deeply furrowed, timber good." " This species has 

 always yellow inner bark," Wyee (A. Murphy) ; Wallsend (W. W. Froggatt) ; 

 Port Stephens district (A. Rudder). 



The following northern specimens depart more or less from the type : — Small- 

 fruited and therefore small-budded form, Booral district, 29th October, 1895 

 (A. Rudder). The small fruits and pointed buds depart from the type. Some 

 botanists may look upon it as a var. of E. eugenioides with very exsert valves. See 

 fig. 9, pi. 38. " Stringybark, Lawrence, Clarence River district." (J. V. de Coque.) 



The most northerly locality from which we have it is the Round Mountain, 

 Guy Fawkes Range, 4,250 feet above the sea, and about 50 miles east of Armidale, 

 on the Grafton road. (J.H.M.) Buds as compressed as it is possible for them to 

 be. Fruits large and hemispherical. From the material available there may be 

 room for opinion as to whether this is E. capitellata or E. macrorrhyncha, but the 

 buds, at least, incline me to the view that it is E. capitellata. 



(a) Near Apsley Falls, Walcha, No. 1,217, R. H. Cambage (E. C. Andrews) 

 is identical with the preceding. 



