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Following are some localities represented in the National Herbarium, 

 Sydney. 



Cowcowing (Max Koch, No. 1,255) ; Carnamah, Victoria district (Dr. A. 

 Morrison); Avon district (E. Pritzel, No. 320). Near York (L. Diels, No. 2,915); 

 Goomalling, where it is a sign of good farming land (Percy Murphy). Indeed, it is 

 an acceptable tree wherever it occurs. Narrogin (J.H.M.) ; 10-12 miles to the east 

 of Broome Hill (J.H.M.) ; Cunderdin (W. V. Fitzgerald) ; Southern Cross (J.H.M.) ; 

 70 miles north of Kurrawang, also Goongarrie (J.H.M.) ; Hampton Plains, 5 miles 

 east of Coolgardie (Ernest Lidgey) ; Kanowna, near Kalgoorlie (L. Diels, No. 

 1,702); "Giant Mallee," 20-35 feet, bark glossy, light brown, Camp 63, Elder 

 Exploring Expedition, 27th September, 1891 (R. Helms). 



AFFINITIES. 



1. With E. leptopoda, Benth. 



In the original description Mueller says that Drummond's No. 188 certainly 



belongs to E. salmonophloia, and that perhaps No. 151 (of which he has not seen 



the fruit) does. Both these numbers are, however (B.F1. iii, 238) placed by 



Bentham under his E. leptopoda. 



Mueller (Eucaly ptographia under E. salmonophloia), says : — 

 The nearest affinity of this species is to E. leptopoda; the leaves, however, are shorter, smoother, 

 shining, and more visibly perforated by oil-dots, the flowers are fewer in the umbels, their stalklets shorter, 

 and their lid blunter ; the outer filaments are not all bent inward while in bud ; the fruits are smaller 

 and particularly less broad, while the valves are narrower and longer ; besides, the flowers of E. leptopoda 

 in an expanded state and its ripe seeds require yet to be compared. 



Examination of Plate 73 shows that the two species can be readily separated 

 by the fruits, while E. salmonophloia is a large tree and E. leptopoda a shrub. 



2. With E. oleosa, F.v.M. 



E. salmonophloia has also some characteristics in common with E. oleosa, but it is taller, the 

 bark is very different, the leaves are thinner in consistence and darker in colour, the flowers are smaller, 

 the lid is shorter and blunter, and the fruits are also of lesser size. (Euealyployraphia, under 

 E. salmonophloia.) 



I think I have dealt with the affinities of these species sufficiently fully 

 under E. oleosa, ante Part XV, page 173. 



3. With E. dumosa, A. Cunn., var. rhodophloia, Benth. (B.F1. iii, 230). 



In the original description of E. salmonophloia, Mueller remarks that it is 

 said to have the same bark as the variety, but the variety has leaves almost opaque, 

 and less oil-dotted, the flowers and fruit are larger, the operculum has an umbo 

 and is plicate- striate, it has no pedicels, the anthers are longer, and it differs in 

 having deltoid valves not exsert, and tends, further, to the series of the Platypodae 

 and not to that of the Exsertse. 



E. dumosa, var. rhodophloia, is figured at la and lb Plate 21, and my readers 

 can judge for themselves. I do not understand why it was necessary to compare 

 this form with E. salmonophloia. 



