144 



The variety does not seem to be a strong one, running imperceptibly into the 

 type, and I see no advantage in retaining it. 



The species varies a good deal in the width of the leaves, as may be seen 

 from examination of Plate 62. 



Specimens from Cut Hill, York, Western Australia (0. H. Sargent, 433), 

 have broad leaves — e.g., 4" 5 cm. long and 1*5 cm. broad ; but the flowers are distinctly 

 pedicellate and not sessile as those of the true var. latifolia. They were gathered 

 from a clump of shrubs of typical uncinata. 



2. Var. (?) major, Benth. 



Flowers larger, contracted into very short, thick pedicels, the peduncles more flattened. Fruit 

 rather larger, scarcely contracted at the orifice, the rim broader and flatter, the valves not acuminate — 

 Murchison River, Oldfield. (B.F1. iii, 216.) 



I have figured at 15a, b, c, Plate 62, a specimen from the Herbier Boissier of 

 Geneva, which I have no doubt is this supposed variety. The leaves have in part a 

 bluish-green cast, and have very indistinct venation. I wovdd like to see juvenile 

 leaves of this form, which is one that we know very little about. I have not been 

 able to get particulars of the living shrubs or trees. 



3. Var. rostrata, Benth. 



Flowers more distinctly pedicellate, the operculum acuminate and longer than the calyx. — Phillips 

 Range, Maxwell ; Murchison River, Oldfield, also Drummond, 5th Coll., n. 186. (B.F1. iii, 216.) 



I have figured Drummond's specimen at Fig. 15, Plate 66, Part XV (not yet 

 published) of this work. I consider it to be a form of E. oleosa, and will discuss 

 the matter when I come to that species. 



I have collected E. uncinata at Hopetoun, Western Australia, with an 

 acuminate operculum longer than the calyx (and therefore answering the description 

 of var. rostrata to that extent), but it is different to Drummond's specimen, and I 

 look upon it as a coarse form of E. uncinata. (See Fig. 14, Plate 62.) 



This specimen came not far from the place whence Maxwell's specimen was 

 obtained ; but I have seen neither Maxwell's nor Oklfield's specimens, and it is quite 

 possible Bentham may have included plants of two species under his variety. 



SYNONYMS. 



1. E. leptophylla, F.v.M. (often quoted as E. leptophylla, Miq.). 



2. E. desertoritm, Naudin. 



1. Euealyptus leptophylla, Ferd. Mull. MSS. 



E. perforata, Behr, Herb, partial. — Anne E. xanthonema, Turczanin., Bull, de Moscou, xx, p. 163 (?) 

 frutex gracilis glaber, ramulis rubellis vel flavescentibus, foliislatolinearibus in acumen tenue excurrentibus 

 coriaceis frequenter pellucido-punctatis, umbellis axillaribus 3-7 floris, calycis tubo obconico-campanulato 

 operculi flavescentis late conici mutici sublaevis longitudine, fructibus parvis cyathimorphis. 



Nova Hollandia australis, Murray-scrub, aestate florens (Dr. Behr). 



