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Bentliam gives the following localities : — 



King George's Sound and to the eastward, E. Brown, Drmnmond, 3rd Coll. 

 Suppl. n. 18 ; margin of Wilson's Inlet, Maxwell ; near Augusta, Gilbert, No. 257 

 (I have seen a specimen of this in the Vienna Herbarium). 



Mueller, in " Forest Resources of Western Australia," says : " Sparsely 

 occurring from the vicinity of King George's Sound to Cape Leeuwin, occasionally 

 ascending the tops of mountains." He collected it on the Gordon River, which is a 

 tributary of the Frankland. 



Mueller (" Eucalyptographia") gives the following additional localities : — ■ 



Mount Elphinstone (Maxwell) ; on the granitic summit of Mount Burrabunup 

 and on the crest and declivities of the Stirling llange (Mueller) . 



There is a Mount Elphinstone in about lat. 20-40° S. and long. 128° 30' E., 

 just south of the Musgrave Range and near the South Australian border, but I do 

 not think this is Maxwell's locality. Mount Burrabunup I cannot trace. 



I have it also from north-west gorge of Mount Toolbrunup, Stirling Range, 

 with rather small leaves and fruits. (Dr. A . Morrison.) 



Mr. Percy Murphy called the tree " Flooded Gum." He got it at Karridale, 

 near Cape Leeuwin, and describes it as 2 feet 6 inches in diameter, a stunted tree 

 not Used locally ; grows on top of hills. Close to sea. 



The trees I found between Princess Royal Harbour (King George's Sound) 

 and the granite rocks on the ocean side, known locally as " The Caves," were 

 growing in damp, low-lying sandy land. 



I have received it also from "King George's Sound" (B. T. Goadby, Xo. 238), 

 and Mount Clarence, Albany, 20 feet high, 1 foot in diameter (J. Staer). 



AFFINITIES. 



1. With E. Preissiana, Schauer. 



Mueller (" Eucalyptographia ") says : — 



E. Preissiana is only of shrubby growth, the branchlets are stouter, the leaves are mostly opposite, 

 often approaching to an oval form, of very thick texture and paler hue, with thicker veins, the tlowers are 

 not rarely provided with short stalklets, the lid separates from the tube of the calyx by a less regular or 

 even imperfect dehiscence, and is often more blunt, the filaments are yellow, the fruits are semi-ovate, with 

 descending rim and short, almost deltoid, enclosed valves. 



The juvenile foliage of E. megaca.rpa is not glandular-hairy, the filaments are 

 glandular ; the calyx-tube of the fruit is hemispherical in E. megacarpa, and conoid, 

 almost top-shaped, in E. Preissiana, the rim convex or domed in E. megacarpa, and 

 concave in E. Preissiana, the filaments white or cream-coloured in the former 

 species, and bright yellow in the latter. 



