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Under South Australia it may be added that the type of E. diversifolia came from 

 Kangaroo Island. Waterhouse's specimen (No. 4) was labelled " E. viminalis according 

 to Bentham, E. santalifolia F.M.," by Mueller. Tate's specimen (No. 5) was labelled 

 E. santalifolia by Mueller. I have recorded it from Cape Couedie (Dr. R. S. and Mrs. 

 Rogers). See Trans. Roy. Soc. S.A., xxxii, 279. I have since obtained it from 

 American Beach (H. H. D. Griffith through J. M. Black) and Rocky River (Walter Gill). 



The original locality given for E. santalifolia is "in the Mallee Scrub on the Murray 

 River, on St. Vincent's and Spencer's Gulfs." (See Grit. Rev. vii, 199.) "A Scrub 

 Mallee with dark bark, near East Wellington (River Murray), sent by Mr. J. M. Black, 

 precisely matches the localities mentioned in Grit. Rev., vii, 202, collected by Mr. Cam- 

 bage. 



Miquel (Ned. KruidJc. Archief., iv) added the localities " Salt's Creek " (I do not 

 know the precise locality of this Salt Creek, but there are several in Eyre's Peninsula. 

 J.H.M.) and "Marble Range, Port Lincoln," which is a locality in which I collected 

 many specimens. In Trans. Roy. Soc. S.A., xxxii, 279, 1 recorded that I found the species 

 to be abundant between Port Lincoln and Lake Wangary, and described juvenile leaves, 

 and made other morphological references. 



It is the commonest Eucalypt between Port Lincoln and Lake Wangary, existing 

 in the greatest profusion. The leaves of the seedlings vary a good deal, some of them 

 being stem-clasping and quite broadish. On Thistle Island it is, say, 15 feet high, and 

 with a stem diameter of 4 inches. It has grey, thin bark, which peels a little. The 

 timber is pale throughout, darkening a little towards the centre. The sizes of the fruits 

 vary. Dr. Rogers collected it at Cape Couedie (Kangaroo Island). Tate,* following 

 Bentham, refers E. Baxteri, " established on Kangaroo Island samples," to this species. 

 At p. 213, Part viii, of my " Critical Revision " I have referred it to E. capitellata Sm., 

 and to this opinion I adhere until a view of better specimens than I have seen in various 

 herbaria shows this opinion to be an erroneous one. 



Proceeding further west, we come to Port Elliston (specimens from Dr. R. S. 

 Rogers), about 100 miles west of Port Lincoln. The locality Venus Bay (quoted B.FL 

 iii, 206) for E. santalifolia, is the bight formed about the mouth of Anderson Inlet, 

 and is some miles further on. It is the nearest recorded locality towards Western 

 Australia, unless the following locality (also Eyre Peninsula) should be nearer. 



" Soap Mallee." " Some say the name is given because the wood is soft and 

 rotten, but others, and they are more likely correct, because of the soapy appearance 

 of the stem and branches; not very plentiful." Minnipa, Eyre's Peninsula (W. J. 

 Spafford). 



The specimen labelled E. viminalis var. diversifolia (No. 8, p. 201, Part vii, Grit. 

 Rev.) came from Guichen Bay according to the late Mr. J. G. Luehmann, late Govern- 

 ment Botanist of Victoria. See also B.FL iii, 206, where Bentham (following Mueller) 

 records E. santalifolia from Guichen Bay. Guichen Bay has on its southern shore the 



'Trans. Roy. Soc. S.A. vi, 141 (1883). 



