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2. With E. ovata Labill. (This is one of the species included in E. Gunnii 



Hook, f., by Mueller). 



E. Kitsoniana is the var. (b) of E. Gunnii of Howitt, see p. 165, so Mr. Howitt 

 informed me. 



E. ovata is common in sour, swampy land in Southern Victoria. It has the 

 juvenile leaves more rounded and the opercula more conical. The fruits also are more 

 top-shaped than those of E. Kitsoniana, and the rim broader than the rest of the 

 calyx. The peduncles are not strap-shaped, while the buds, flowers, and fruits are 

 pedicellate. 



3. With E. dumosa, var. rhodophloia Benth. (E. incrassata Labill., var.). 



It is certainly very near to the above, and perhaps identical with it. See 

 B.F1. iii, 230, and the present work, Part IV, p. 98. I have drawings only of the 

 Kew specimens examined by Bentham. They are from Phillips's Bluff, near Eyre's 

 Relief, W.A., but, as compared with E. Kitsoniana, show some of the fruits slightly 

 pedicellate, with, however, sessile buds. The peduncles are strap-shaped. The fruits 

 are in 3's and 4's (those of E. Kitsoniana being in 3's, 4's, and 5's). The foliage 

 appears to be identical as far as it goes. 



But all the differences enumerated may not amount to much, and, considering 

 the E. Kitsoniana and the rhodophloia specimens are from localities separated by 

 two thousand miles, it would be extraordinary if they were precisely identical. 



