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SYNONYMS. 



1. Var. (?) brachycorys, Benth. 



2. E. scyphoidea, Naudin. 



NOTES ON THE SYNONYMS. 



Var. (?) brachycorys, Benth. 



Operculum short and obtuse. Fruit of E. macrorrhyncha. Expanded flowers not seen, and 

 therefore affinities uncertain. New England, N.S.W., Stringybark, C. Stuart — B.F1. iii, 207. 



The variety brachycorys, mentioned by Bentham, seems transferable to E. capitellata, unless, 

 indeed, it should prove distinct from both, when as a species it could be kept apart under the above 

 designation. — (Mueller, Eucalyptographia, under E. macrorrhyncha.) 



The variety brachycorys, doubtfully referred by Bentham to E. macrorrhyncha from New England 

 (near Timbarra) at elevations about L',000 feet, may possibly be a form of E. capitellata, with which it shares 

 the blunt lid, though the calyces are attenuated into distinct and slender stalklets ; but the bark of this 

 tree, though stringy, is said to be separating in patches, and, curiously enough, the tree is locally called 

 Spotted Gum tree.* The fruits are rather more depressed. Expanded flowers remained unknown. — 

 (Eucalyptographia, under E. capitellata.) 



I have seen Stuart's specimens, and they have thick leaves, with well-marked 

 venation. Buds rounded, shining. Fruits sharply rimmed and grooved. Fig. 14, 

 pi. 39, makes this form clear. 



I cannot agree that it is a variety, and Bentham was himself doubtful on 

 that point. It is an unstable form and it touches the normal form and adjacent 

 species in various ways. It is especially common in the Northern Districts. 



The shaimness of the rim, which seems to be the most pronounced character, 

 appears to be accidental, and to be less accentuated as ripening of the fruit proceeds. 

 It is seen in specimens from widely different localities, e.g., Cootamundra to Grenfell 

 (A. Osborne) ; Borenore (II. Deane) ; Canoblas, Orange (A. W. Howitt) ; Capertee 

 and Sunny Corner (J.H.M. and J. L. Boorman) ; Emmaville (E. C. Andrews). 



2. E. scyphoidea, Naudiu. 



I do not know where it was described. 



Copy of a label, in Herb. Mus. Paris, in M. Xaudin's handwriting : — 



Eucalyptus scyphoidea, Ndn. Species nova. Trouve dans le jardin Nabonnand au Golfe Juan. 

 Arbre unique dans le pays. Villa Thuret, 1899. Ch. Ndn.''— (Maiden, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., 1903.) 



It is a form of E. macrorrhyncha, commonest in the Northern Districts, 

 which, with var. (?) brachycorys, is simply indistinguishable from the normal species. 

 It has butls nearly normal, while the fruit tends to the spherical shape that is common 

 in many specimens of this species, as will be readily seen from examination of the 

 figures. 



* I do not know the authority for this statement. Charles Stuart's note on a New England specimen (Herb. Melb. ) 

 is " A mountain species. Bark separating in fibres like the Van Dienjen's Land E. ijnjautea (E. obliqua)." I have seen 

 the tree in the forest. 



