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(3) Its panicles are more spreading. 



(4) The lids (at least often) are double, and the stamens not constantly all 

 fertile. 



In the field the species are at once separated by the large size of E. bicolor, 

 ■which has rough bark up to the small branches. The timber of both is red. In the 

 herbarium. I imagine that they would be readily separated by the broad shiny leaves 

 of E. Behriana, to mention no other characters. I do not attach much importance 

 to No. 4 as characters. 



2. With E. hemiphloia, P.v.M. 



Mueller ('•' Eucalyptographia ") says : — 



E. Behriana approaches closely to E. hemiphloia, from which it mainly differs in — 

 1. Never attaining the stately dimensions of that species. 

 '2. Bark remaining smooth from succession of outer layers. 



3. The leaves are as a rule (subject, however, to exceptions) shorter and broader. 



4. The panicles are less ample, by which means the umbels are not rarely arranged in a racemous 



manner. 



5. The flowers and fruits are smaller, their stalklets are less abbreviated, the lid is shorter and 



blunter, and the fruit-valves are less deeply enclosed. 



To which may be added : Their timbers are totally different, that of 

 E. Behria.ua being of a red colour; that of E. hemiphloia is the ordinary pale- 

 coloured Box. whose appearance and properties are thoroughly well known. The 

 flowers of E. Behriana are small, with short filaments. 



In the field the species could never be confused for a moment, but as expert 

 botanists have confused them (i.e., E. Behriana with forms attributed to E. hemi- 

 phloia, — my var. microcarpa) in the herbarium, it is idle to contend that they do not 

 possess some degree of similarity. Perhaps this note will be the means of causing 

 attention to be given to the matter. 



3. TTith E. odorata, Behr. 



Under E. Behriana, F.v.M., Bentham (B.P1. iii. 214) describes a var. 

 purpurascens, F.v.M., originally collected by Wilhelmi at Lake Wangaroo (W angary), 

 South Australia. At p. 217 (under E. hemiphloia) he refers to South Australian 

 specimens (Memory Cove and Kangaroo Island, B. Brown; Port Lincoln, TTilhelmi), 

 and says : — " In Mr. Brown's South Australian specimens the leaves are smaller, but 

 in "Wilhelmi's they are the same as in the northern ones, and I can find no character 

 to distinguish them. Both 11. Brown and P. Mueller had given them the MS. name 

 of E. purpurascens. B. Brown's plant (collected 1802-5) was distributed from the 

 British Museum under the number 4,735. 



I have examined the type, labelled by Mueller " E. purpurascens. Perd. M. 

 Scrub of Port Lincoln, January, 1S55. 4-6 feet. Carl Wilhelmi." Afterwards the 

 same specimen was labelled by Mueller " E. hemiphloia, var.," with the note : 

 " Pedicels none; lid short and blunt." All these specimens referred to E. Behriana 



