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E. pachyphylla is then figured and described in the "Eucalyptographia," hut 

 Mueller does not figure a nearly sessile form, and therefore this is not strictly typical. 

 It is, as regards the pedicels, very similar to the form depicted at lb, Plate 75. 



The specimens figured at 6, Plate 75, would appear to be strictly typical for 

 E. pachyphylla, F.v.M. 



E. pachyphylla approaches the variety pruinosa of E. pyriformis [such a variety has never been 

 defined. — J.H.M.], but its flowers and fruits are much smaller, almost devoid of a general flower-stalk, and 

 crowded to the number of about 7 together ("Eucalyptographia," under E. fjyriformis). 



I have already stated, I believe E. pruinosa, Turcz., to have fruits of the size 

 of 3 and 4, Plate 75, which, while very much smaller than the typical form of 

 E. pyriformis (figured at lb of the same Plate), are very much larger than those of 

 E. pachyphylla, F.v.M. (figured at, say, 7b of the same Plate). 



RANGE. 



This species mainly occurs in Western Australia and western South Australia. 

 If E. pachyphylla be properly referred to E. 'pyriformis, as I suggest, then the 

 range of the species is extended to the Mulligan River, Western Queensland. The 

 intervening country of Central Australia has been very imperfectly explored from 

 the botanical point of view. 



Western Australia. 

 The type specimen of E. pyriformis is Drummond's 4th Collection No. 69. 

 That of E. pruinosa, Turcz. (non Schauer), a synonym, is 4th Collection No. 70. 

 Bentham (B.F1. iii, 226) adds Drummond's No. 61, and also " Sandy plains between 

 Port Gregory and the Murchison River, Olc/feld," which is the locality quoted by 

 Mueller for his E. erythrocalyx. 



A specimen is before me, " In fructicetis arenosis inter flumiua Moore et 

 Murchison" (E. Pritzel, No. 440). In bud and flower (crimson filaments). 

 Doubtles the calyces* of these buds were "strikingly red " in a fresh state, and thus 

 satisfy the requirements of E. erythrocalyx, F.v.M., but it would appear that the 

 crimson calyx in the young state is common in the species. 



Returning to Drummond's collections, I believe the following passages from 

 Drummond's letters refer to E. pyriformis. Drummond's No. 49 is not in any 

 collection to which I have access. 



On the same hill (1 near Moore River) I gathered the beautiful and curious Eucalyptus (No. 49), 

 of which I sent you seed-vessels and flowers ; the inflorescence is rose-coloured, and as large as that of 

 E. macrocarpa ; still it is readily distinguishable as a species, by its less glaucous and petiolated leaves, 

 with the lengthened recurved footstalks of the blossoms and fruit ; but I find that the winged seed- 

 vessels and twin-growth of the flowers do not afford dependable characters. 



(Letter dated September, 184 2, in Hooker's London Journal of Botany, 



Vol. 3, p. 302.) 



