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2. E. odorata, Behr, var. linearis, Maiden, in Proc. Boy. Soc. S.A. xxvii, 

 p. 24 L (1903). 



" I have made an attempt to subdivide the various forms of E. odorata, hut 

 it is ohvious that they run into one another ; and, further, the same tree has 

 different kinds of leaves (within limits) according to the season of the year and the 

 part of the tree from which they have been taken. These remarks apply with more 

 or less force to most species of the genus. One form, however, seems worthy of 

 special mention. 



" Linear-lanceolate leaves, coriaceous, shiny, veins not strongly marked. 

 This is, perhaps, the form most dissimilar in appearance to the type, and might be 

 called var. linearis, var. nov. 



" It is the prevailing form in the ' Whipstick Mallee ' of New South Wales 

 and Victoria." 



RANGE. 



So far it has only been recorded from certain of the drier parts of Victoria and 

 New South Wales. I confidently expect it to be found in Queensland. 



Victoria. 



" Whipstick Gum" covers a large tract of country north of Bendigo 

 (W. W. Froggatt, July, 1892). "Mallee," Eaglehawk Flagstaff (A. W. Howitt), 

 August, 1891; "Mallee," Rushworth (A. W. Howitt); Wedderburn and Ingle- 

 burn, " not used for oil " (J. Blackburne). 



New South Wales. 



Wyalong (District Forester Osborne, B. II. Cambage) ; " Mallee," Condo- 

 bolin (Forester Ividston) ; The Lachlan (Miss Clements) ; Bundaburra, between 

 Fifield and Condobolin (P. J. Iloldsworth) ; Coolabah (B. W. Peacock) ; Girilam- 

 bone (E. Betche, J. L. Boorman) ; " Green Mallee." Type of E. viridis, B. T. Baker. 

 Girilambone (W. Baeuerlen). 



" Plentiful round the hills of Girilambone. Small thin stems, ribbony at base, 

 white at tips " (J. L. Boorman); Nyngan (Forester G. Martin, also J. Wharton Cox 

 and E. F. Rogers) ; Parish of Kickabel, County of Ewenmar (A. R. Samuels). 



" Known as Whipstick Mallee from its erect, slender stems. Its fruits are 

 generally small, but vary in size very much. The bark is brown at the base, and 

 white above. This is the most easily distinguished of all the Mallees owing to its 

 narrow green leaves. In some cases it grows as a single tree 50 feet high and a foot 

 in diameter" (R. H. Cambage, Proc. Linn, Soc. N.S.W., 1900, p. 602). 



