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Plate 128, Part XXXI, may be compared with Plates 136, 137. The texture 

 of the leaves is not brought out in the drawings, but, speaking generally, those of E. 

 tereticornis are the coarser, and often larger, though the latter character must be con- 

 sidered with care. As a rule, though not an invariable one, the marginal vein is closer 

 to the edge in E. rostrata. The opercula of E. tereticornis are more cylindrical, though, 

 e.g., figure 5b of Plate 128, they may be as short and as rounded as those often found 

 in E. rostrata in far interior districts. The fruit of E. tereticornis is coarser than that of 

 E. rostrata, and the rim never so sharp. 



2. With E. exserta F.v.M. The affinities of these two species are dealt with at 

 p. 36, Part XXXII. 



3. With E. rudis Endl. The affinities of these two species are dealt with at p. 78. 



4. With E. viminalis Labill. 



. . . . is, as observed by F. Mueller, very closely allied to E. viminalis .... From 

 the former (viminalis) it differs in the longer pedicels, in the operculum, and in the shape of the fruit, the 

 rim and capsule always much more exserted." (B. Fl. iii, 240). 



" . . . . still instances occur, when it merges almost into E. viminalis .... The main 

 distinctions of E. viminalis consist in its having typically only three flowers to each stalk, in the generally 

 shorter stalklets, in the lid being never contracted into a long beak-like acumen, and in the valves not being 

 so much elevated above the margin of the fruit-calyx by the intervening rim." (" Eucalyptographia " 

 under E. rostrata). 



E. rostrata has a red timber, E. viminalis a pale one. The narrow juvenile 

 leaves of E. viminalis at once separate the species from those of E. rostrata. 



