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Mr. Rod way (in a letter to me) points out the close resemblance of the 

 juvenile foliage of this form to that of E. viminalis. He has suggested the 

 possibility of tins form being a hybrid between E. urnigera and E. viminalis, and 

 says that wherever he lias seen the variety growing, he has always seen the two 

 species associated. 



SYNONYM. 



Eucalyptus Whittinghamiensis, Hort. (I have also seen tbe spelling 

 Whittinghami.) 



Eaised from seed gathered on Mount Wellington, Tasmania, in Whittingham 

 Gardens, Haddingtonshire, Scotland. 



Mr. Rodway has a specimen in fruit and early bud, which, he says, is appar- 

 ently a form of E. urnigera, in which opinion I concur. I hope fuller material will 

 be available. 



I may say that E. urnigera grows at Whittingham (see Gardeners' 

 Chronicle, 14th January, 1899, p. 19). 



RANGE. 



It is confined to Tasmania. 



In the original description and El. Tas., Hooker quotes the localities known 

 to him as "Alpine districts, not uncommon on the summit of Mt. Wellington, 

 Lake Echo, &c." 



Bentbam says Robert Brown found it on Table Mountain. Table Mountain 

 is tbe original name for Mt. Wellington. It occurs on that mountain at an eleva- 

 tion of about 3,003 feet. He named it, and it is presumed described it, as seems to 

 have been his practice when he attached a name, but his name was never published. 

 Indeed, few of Brown's observations on this interesting genus were ever published, 

 through some unfortunate misunderstanding. 



In the National Herbarium, Sydney, we have the following specimens : — 



Mt. Wellington (Ronald Gunn's 1,074); Riverside, Risdon (Gunn's 1,073) ; 

 Marlborough (J. D. Hooker, Gunn's 1,075) ; Mt. Ealkiner (L. Rodway) ; Mount 

 Field East, at an elevation of 3,000-1,000 feet (J.H.M.). 



