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4. E. subulata A. Cunn. 



Arborea ramulis laxis angiilatis ; foil, coriaceis lanceolatis subfalcatis in petiolum attenuatis : longe 

 acuminatis utrinq. pallidis opacisq. pellucido-pimctatis, margine crassiusculo cinctis ; pedunculis axillarib. 

 lateralibq. ancipitib. petiolum suboequantib. 4-6 floris pedicellis angulatis cupula sub-triplo longiorib., 

 operculo meinbranaceo supra basin contracto tereti-subulato cupula brevi cyathiformi quintuple- longiori. 

 Foliorum lamina 3-5 poll., petiolus 9 lin., operculum 7 lin. par longum. In Nova Cambria australi. White 

 Gum of Moreton Bay. (Schauer in Warper's Repert. ii, 924.) 



" Eucalyptus subulata C. (Cunningham) near E. resinijera. White Gum of 

 Moreton Bay, 50-60 feet, 1818." 



The above label in Allan Cunningham's handwriting is in Herb. Cant., ex Herb. 

 Lindl. 



5. E. insulana F. M. Bailey in Queensland Agric. Journ. xvii, 103 (1906). 



It forms bushes of 3 or 4 feet on elevated exposed situations, amongst grass- 

 trees at Middle Percy Island, North Queensland. Branchlets prominently angular. 

 Fruit not seen ripe. I have figured it at 5, Plate 129. 



It comes from the same approximate locality as var. latifolia (Percy Island), 

 and I look upon it as one of the many intermediate forms between it and normal 

 tereticomis. It is a stunted plant, from an exposed situation. In my view it is 

 impossible to maintain that it can be given specific rank. Indeed the describer stated 

 that the name he gave was provisional. 



E. Oldfieldii F.v.M., the Western Australian plant of which Bailey said it might 

 be a form, is not closely related to it (see Vol. ii, p. 223 and plates 73 and 74). Indeed 

 the species are very different as regards anthers, juvenile leaves, buds, fruit, &c. 



Varieties. 



1. Var. latifolia Benth. B. Fl. iii, 242. 



2. Var. braehycorys Benth. B. Fl. iii, 242. 



3. Var. brevifolia Benth. B. Fl. iii, 242. 



4. Var. (?) brevirostris Benth. B. Fl. iii, 241. 



1. Var. latifolia. Leaves ovate to lanceolate. Flowers with a strong cimicine 

 smell. Shoalwater passage (North Queensland). R. Brown. 



See a note by Deane and Maiden on E. tereticomis Sm. var. latifolia Benth. in 

 Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W. xxiv, 469 (1899) with plate xli, fig. 9, consisting of a head of 

 fruits. 



" Leaves ovate to lanceolate. Flowers with a strong cimicine smell." The only locality in the 

 Flora for this variety is Shoalwater Passage, Queensland (R. Brown), but the variety, or at all events one 

 of its numerous links with the normal species, is tolerably abundant in the coast and coast mountain 

 districts of the Colony, both north and south of Port Jackson. 



" Flowers with a strong cimicine smell " appears to give the clue to the name " Stinking Gum," 

 which in some parts of the Colony is given to E. tereticomis (see Agric. Gazette N.S.W. 1898, 593), though 

 in the specimens collected in the Mount Seaview district the leaves were not specially broad. It is, however, 

 not likely that bad odour is a character exclusively possessed by the flowers of the variety. 



