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Mr. O. H. Sargent, of York, wrote to me in November, 1909 : — 



The nearest E. macrocarpa I know of is about 10 miles distant ; but the shrubs are not flowering 

 this year. I heard last week that the species is in full bloom near Greenhills, probably between 20 and 

 30 miles away It is called " Blue Bush " in the Quairading district, where it is plentiful. 



Shrub of about 10 feet, flowers scarlet (sic). In sandy ironstone near 



Quellington (O. H. Sargent). Avon district (E. Pritzel, No. 907). "Est species 



insignis districtui Avon propria in glareoso-arenosis " (D. 3,957; E. Pritzel PI. 

 Austr. occ. 907) (Diels and Pritzel, Englers Jahrb. xxxv, p. 439). 



It grows on the sand-plains 20 miles east of Beverley (W. D. Campbell). 



Mr. Eorest Banger Gregory told me he knew the plant. He said it is found 

 70 miles east of Northam [this would be somewhere near Doodlakine. — J.H.M.] 

 that it has a fruit like a " butter print" and that it is known as " Desert Gum or 

 Mallee." 



All the above are in what may be termed the Avon district. 



Eollowing is the only northerly locality represented in this herbarium, and it 

 is in the modern Wongan Hills district. 



t: Plain north-east from New Norcia." With narrower leaves. (Dr. A. 

 Morrison.) 



Mueller gives the following additional localities for the species : — 



In the scrub-country near the south-eastern sources of the Swan River (Oliver Jones) ; in the arid, 

 somewhat elevated and undulating tracts between the Irwin and Greenough Rivers, in sandy as well as 

 gravelly soil (Mueller); near the north-eastern sources of the Blackwood River (T. Muir). 



Between the Irwiu and Greenough Bivers would be the most northerly, and 

 sources of the Blackwood Biver the most southerly records, and I would like to see 

 more definite localities stated. 



Bentham says: "A specimen of Labillardiere's, without flower or fruit, 

 from the Maria Island, on the same coast, appears to be the same species " 

 (B.E1. iii, 224). Maria Island is off the coast of Tasmania, and I suggest that 

 Labillardiere's specimen is E. cordata, Labill. 



AFFINITY. 



With E. pyriformis, Turcz. 



Mueller, in " Eucalyptographia," remarks that this is the only species in " near affinity " to 

 E. 'macrocarpa, for, notwithstanding the great disresemblance arising from the not general glaucous hue, 

 from the stalked as well as scattered and narrower leaves, and from the generally three-flowered umbels of 

 E. pyriformis, it must be conceded that flowers and fruits are constructed upon the same type ; iudeed, in 

 Drummond's collection occur specimens of E. pyriformis with opposite and already broader leaves, though 

 stalked and green ; the mealy whiteness, however, of E. pyriformis is confined to the young calyces 

 chiefly or solely, the flower-stalks are never wanting, the tube of the calyx is often contracted into a 



