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RANGE. 



It is confined to Tasmania. 



The type came from " a saddle of the Dividing Range between the Huon and 

 Derwent watersheds, on bleak high land at an elevation of over 2,000 feet." 



Rodway defines its range as common on mountains on south-west Tasmania 

 at an elevation of about 2,000 feet. 



Extensively dispersed round the southern slope of Mt. Wellington, at about 2,000 feet elevation, 

 •where it can be seen in quantity in the region of the Springs Track to the Two Bridges and Forked Creek 

 Rivulets, where it forms the principal timber. (L. Rodway, 1894, p. 51.) 



Mr. R. H. Cambage and I have collected it at the Springs, where we saw 

 trees at least 80 feet high. 



I collected it at Mount Field East at an elevation of 4,000 feet in March, 1906, 

 and have the note " E. Muelleri, a form showing transit to E. vernicosa." Compare 

 Mueller's notes at p. 159. 



AFFINITIES. 



1. With E. vernicosa Hook. f. 



Some notes on the affinities of these two species have already been made. 

 See p. 159. 



In Proc. Roy. Soc. Tas., 209 (1886), Mueller makes the following comments on 

 E. vernicosa and on the tree proposed, on the same occasion, to be named E. Muelleri. 



He stated that a plate of E. vernicosa had been lithographed, but withheld 

 from publication, as it seemed likely that, in its very dwarf state, it represented the 

 highland form of a taller plant of sub-alpine regions. 



He then gave an account of a tree found by him in 1869 at Mount Field East 

 which, at between 3,000 and 4,000 feet, reached a height of 30 feet, " and which 

 seemed to me rather a tall state of vernicosa than a variety of E. Gunnii. " I 

 collected the same plant at the same spot many years after (J.H.M.). 



He goes on to say that " from the above remarks it will be perceived that the 

 plant from near the Lakes of Mount Field offers some approach to E. umigera ; this is 

 borne out by specimens of evidently the same tree just submitted to me by 

 Mr. T. B. Moore, as obtained by him during recent surveys across the Mount 

 Wellington Ranges." 



" It remains now to be shown in what precise position 



systematically E. vernicosa is standing to E. umigera and to E. Gunnii, after this 

 most highly developed state of the former (presumably vernicosa is meant.— J.H.M 

 became discovered." 

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