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I have given references to some non-typical fruits under " Range," and take 

 the opportunity of pointing out that they vary somewhat in size, and in width and 

 flatness of rim. 



" A narrow and elongated outer quickly deciduous operculum covers not rarely 

 the normal lid" (Mueller). The Rev. J. W. Dwyer has also noticed this double 

 operculum in E. rostrata. I have noticed it in this species and in so many others, that 

 I incline to the opinion that it occurs in all, although early deciduous in some species. 



Typically the bud has a short operculum which, especially when dry, has a 

 rostrate appearance (see fig. 2a, Plate 136). In the hottest parts of the continent the 

 tendency is for the shape of the buds to be ovoid, and the point of the operculum 

 almost to be eliminated. On the other hand, e.g., figures 8a and 9a of Plate 136, 

 the operculum may attain a considerable length. 



' The umbels are sometimes crowded, but never strictly paniculated " (Mueller). 



SYNONYMS. 



1. E. camaldulensis Dehnhardt. 



2. E. longirostris F.v.M. 



1. E. camaldulensis Dehnh. 



" E. operculo conico acuminato calycem aequante laevi, pedunculis teretibus pctiolos subae quant i bus 

 5-6-floris urnbellatis, fructu globoso, foliis alternis ovato-lanoeolatis longissimis glaucis parallele venosis 

 apice incurvo-acuminatis, ramulis angulatis rubicundis flaccidis.'' 



" Nov. Holl. Flor. Sept. Oct," (Dehnh. Cat. PL Hort. Camald. ed. 2, p 20, 1832). 



A specimen of the above, in bud, communicated by Dehnhardt himself to the 

 Vienna Herbarium, and seen by me, is E. rostrata. A translation of a note on the label 

 is :— " It is 40 feet high. I received it under name of E. persicifolia, but as I received 

 later on the true persicifolia, I perceived a great difference, though I could not approach 

 it to anything else." 



2. E. longirostris Ferd. Mull. Herb., E. rostrata Schlechtend., Linn&a xx, 



p. 655, n. 176, haud Ca vanities. 



"Frequenter in planitiebus et montibus humilioribus v.c. ? Mount Burke-range, Lofty-range, 

 Beagle (Bugle) range, Salt-creek, " Red Gum Tree " colonorum. Fl. aestate. Folia 3-6 poll., longa |-fere 

 1 lata, haud crasse coriacea." 



P forma brevirostris Mull. : rostro breviore. 



Ad Glenelg river (F.M.). (Miq. in Ned. Kruidk. Arch, iv, 125, 1856). 



The variety brevirostris is referred to at p. 67. 



