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Mueller remarks 



E. prwinosa, Turcz., exhibits a variety, having smaller flowers with obverse pyramidal sharply few- 

 angled calyx-fcube. 



2. E. macroealyx, Turcz. 



It is simply a synonym of E. pruinosa, Turcz., according to the following 

 passage : — 



Nomen E. pruinosae, propter hornonymum Schauerianum antiquins, in E. macrocalycem mutetur, 

 (Bull. Phys. Math. Acad. Petersb., x (1S52), p. 339.) 



3. E. erythroealyx, Old field and Mueller, is described in Fragm. ii., 32 (1860), 



and following is a translation (with Mueller's italics) : — 



Shrubby, with alternate, coriaceous, ovate-lanceolate leaves, acute or acuminate, imperforate, with 

 very tine spivading transverse veins, rather long petioles, the marginal vein close to the edge, peduncles 

 thick terete ultimately re-flexed, pedicels of nearly equal length or longer, about 3-flowered, a very leer ge light- 

 reddish calyx, with a nearly semi-ovate quadrangular tube gradually narrowed into the pedicel, little 

 exceeding the nearly semi-ovate hemispherical shortly acuminate operculum. Anthers ovate-cordate. 

 Fruits very large, hemispherical-turbinate, slightly 4-ribbed, the apex of the 4- to G-celled capsule broadly 

 encircled by a concave ascending margin or rim, the convex valves not exsert. Seeds without wings. 



Tn sandy places between Port Gregory and the Murchison River. Oldfield. Shrub 4 to 6 feet 

 high. Branches terete. Branchlets coinpressed-tetragonous. Leaves shining, equal-coloured on both 

 sides, l-J-3 inches long, f to 1 inch broad, on a petiole J to 1 inch long. Peduncle at first about 1 inch 

 long, ultimately up to 3 inches long. Pedicels 1 to 1| inches long, very thick when old. The bud 

 measured 1| to If inches in the only specimen seen, perfectly and strikingly red in the fresh state, slightly 

 rugose after drying. Stamens not numerous. Anthers yellow. Fruit nearly 3 inches broad, and with 

 acute margin round the apex. Valves bluish or lead-coloured, convex before expansion, forming the apex 

 of the capsule. Sterile seeds sometimes 2| to 4 lines long, clavate-filiform, angular, some broad or very 

 broad, variable as to form. Fertile seeds not seen. 



This fine species resembles E. macrocarpa in size as well as in the form of the calyx and capsule, 

 but differs in the arrangement of the flowers, and in the nature of the leaves. 



Mueller had not at this time seen an authentic specimen of E. pyriformis, 

 as he himself states (" Eucalyptographia"). 



4. E. Youngiana, F.v.M. (Fragm. x., 5 [1876].) 

 The description may be translated as follows : — 



Arboreous with nearly terete branchhts, and falcate-lanceolate scattered leaves gradually acuminate, 

 equal-coloured on both sides, imperforate, on rather long petioles. Veins copious, very fine, transverse, 

 and with two longitudinal ones very near the margin. Solitary very thick peduncles, compressed and 2 

 or 3-flowered, with very thick pedicels conspicuously shorter than the flowers. Very large calyx with 

 a depressed hemispherical tube, with numerous longitudinal ribs, hardly equal in size to the woody 

 operculum, which is broad-conical and acuminate-rostrate. Anthers cordate-ovate opening longitudinally, 

 with a thick subulate style. Fruits depressed turbinate-hemispherical, with raised ribs. Has five deltoid 

 valves and winged seeds. 



At the desert water hole, Victoria Springs, Young. Fowler's Bay, Richardson. 



The tree in question is, according to one of the discoverers, 50 feet high [is this a slip for 5 1 — J.H.M.] 

 Leaves thick, coriaceous, pale green, not distinctly shining, mostly 4 to 5 inches long, and §■ to 1 inch 

 broad, the veins oblique (angulo acuto excurn-ntes), not prominent. Peduncles deflexed, hardly 1 inch 

 long. Calyx-tube 1-1-1 inches broad, thick-woody, operculum nearly li inches long, rugose. Stamens, as 

 far as seen, all pollen-bearing. Filaments yellow, the longer ones nearly 1 inch long. Anthers A to J- line 

 long. Style less than a line thick. Fruit in form much approaching that of E. paahyphylla, but much 

 larger. Its folds are not dissimilar to the rilis of E. macrocarpa and E. pyriformis. Fertile seeds hardly 

 exceeding a line, broad, angular, sterile ones at least partly thin-clavate. 



