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E. largiflorens, P.M., in Transact. Vict. Instit., i, 34 (E. hcemastoma, Miq., Stirp. New Holl., 34, not 

 Sm.) is peculiar to the Australian desert, and not a native of Tasmania ; in what way E. Behriana 

 has affinity to E. fruticetorum is a matter for further observation and statement of the differences. — 

 (Fragm., ii, 57.) 



References to E. fruticetorum, F.v.M., will also be found in Part III, p. 84, 

 of the present work (two of Mr. Wilkinson's specimens being figured as G. H. of 

 Plate 11) ; Part IV, p. 99, and at p. 119. 



On the occasion of a recent (July, 1908) visit to the Melbourne Herbarium I 

 came upon an excellent specimen, bearing a label, entirely in Mueller's handwriting, 

 as follows : — " Eucalyptus fruticetorum, F.v.M. Lower Avoca (Wedderburn) Scrub. 

 W. Percy Wilkinson, 1892." 



I had never seen it before, although I had worked on \Vilkinson's specimens 

 labelled by the late Mr. J. G. Luehmann, and transmitted by that gentleman to 

 Sydney, and it had probably been mislaid (with many other specimens) in the 

 confusion which took place after Mueller's death. I shall fully figure it in my 

 " Forest Flora of New South Wales " in due course, and it is identical in every 

 respect with type specimens of E. polybractea, R. T. Baker. 



The type specimen seems to have been lost. I made a personal search in the 

 Melbourne Herbarium for it with the kind help of Professor Ewart ; and no trace 

 of it can be found at Kew, so Colonel Prain is good enough to tell me. There is no 

 good reason to doubt the correctness of Mueller's determination of this characteristic 

 specimen of his owd species. 



SYNONYM. 



E. polybractea, P. T. Baker, in Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., xxv, 692 (1900). 

 In the original description of E. polybractea the author describes the anthers 

 as " parallel, opening by longitudinal slits." While the anthers are more or less 

 variable in this and other species, they may be more fitly described as globular 

 (or nearly so), and opening by pores. Sometimes the pores are elongated, but the 

 term parallel anthered, while quite appropriate for some other species, is misleading 

 in the present one. 



RANGE. 



It is confined to South Australia, Victoria, and New South Wales, so far as we 

 know. It is a dry country species, and Wyalong is the only New South Wales 

 record for it at present. No doubt further search will greatly extend the range. 



