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3. E. capitellata, Sm. 



I have shown, in dealing with Victorian and South Australian specimens 

 (p. 213), how difficult it sometimes is to separate E. Muelleriana from E. capitellata. 

 Typical suckers of E. capitellata may he different enough. The test as to the 

 coriaceous character of the leaves breaks down, e.g., I haA r c very coriaceous leaves 

 of typical E. Muelleriana from Wingello, N.S.W., while west and north coriaceous 

 leaves of E. Muelleriana arc particularly abundant. That E. Muelleriana and 

 E. capitellata run into each other I have no doubt. 



4. E. macrorrhyncha, E.v.M. 



Turning to observations under E. macrorrhyncha, I am simply unable to 

 separate E. Muelleriana and E. macrorrhyncha in some northern New South Wales 

 and southern Queensland forms. The figures ( 10-13, pi. SS) will explain my 

 meaning. Some of; the northern forms may be looked upon by some botanists 

 as referable to E. capitellata ; indeed, I cannot say in what important character 

 they differ from the Victorian-South Australian specimens referred to under 

 E. capitellata. 



The following notes on E. Muelleriana seedlings refer to the type plants in 

 Victoria. I have already pointed oat, however, that the seedling leaves vary : — 



In E. macrorrhyncha the seedlings arc also more or less beset with tufts of hairs, giving the stems a 

 rough appearance, but in a less degree than the last-named species (E. capitellata). The leaves, at first 

 opposed, are lanccolar in form, and slightly shiny. The seedlings of E. Muelleriana arc as characteristic 

 as those of any other species known to me. The stem and stalklets are slightly tufted with hairs, or are 

 even smooth ; the leaves rather long, lanceolar, pointed, and opposed throughout, even in seedlings of a 

 foot or more in height, while their extremely shiny upper surface distinguishes tl da form from all the other 

 species of this group [my italics, J.H.M.], being more marked even than in E. obliqua, from which the 

 persistent opposition of the leaves readily distinguishes it. — (Howitt, Trans. Roy. Soc. Vict., vol. 2, pp. 92-3.) 



