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Explic. tab, A Rami fructiferi pars, a Calix fructifer, b Idem sectus perpendicularitor utappireat 

 c.psula. c Ejusdem sectio hor'zontalis. d Semjn. e Calix cilyptratus. /Flos calyptra dehiscmte. 

 g Calicis tioridi aucti sectio ut appareat diaphra^matis et gcrminis situs, h Germen. 



Supposed Variety. 



Theso-cal led variety " with the ovary more conical in the centre and the oper- 

 culum shortly heated, Patersou's River, " Blue Gum," Herb. R. Brown." (B.F1. iii, 

 229, under E. hotryoides) is E. saligna. 



I have already referred to specimens {eg., Green Point, Gosford, N.S.W.) 

 with very pointed opercula, and in other respects differing from the type, but it docs 

 not seem worth while to name these as a variety. 



Hybridism. — This is a species which undoubtedly cross pollinates with other 

 species, and these forms will be dealt with when the general question of hybridism 

 in the genus is taken up. 



RANGE. 



It is confined to eastern and south-eastern Australia, not occurring far from 

 the sea. The type was described from Port Jaekson. It occurs from coastal 

 Gippsland (Victoria), and along the New South Wales coast for about 150 miles 

 north of Port Jackson, and very doubtfully to South Queensland. I have not seen 

 undoubted specimens of the species from the northern State, and it should not be 

 included in the Queensland flora without proper evidence. The confusion which 

 has arisen between it and E. saligna is referred to at page 53. 



" Probably it does not extend into Queensland, as the Blue Gum tree 

 mentioned from thence is referable to a species of the scries of Leiophloiyo, probably 

 E. saligna" (" Eucalyptographia " under E. bolryoides.) 



Victoria. 

 The following localities are all from Eastern Gippsland : — 

 " Mahogany Tree of Snowy River," Orbost (H. Hopkins) ; Lake Tyers 



(IT. Hopkins); sea coast at Lake King (Mueller); Raymond Island, Lake King 



(H. Hopkins) ; Metung (A. W. Howitt, J.H.M.). 



New South "Wales. 



Southern Localities. — Woolly Butt," Milton (R. H. Cambage, J. L. 

 Boorman) ; Jervis Bay (J.H.M.). Some specimens with fruits nearly as large as 

 E. rohusta ; Banks of Yalwal River, near Shoalhaven (W. Forsyth and A. A. 

 Hamilton) ; Shoalhaven (W. Baeucrlcn) ; Jamberoo (J. H. Camfield) ; Wollongong 

 (W. D. Francis); Coal Cliff Creek (II. Deane) ; Otford to Stanwell Park (R. II. 

 Cambage and J.H.M.). 



