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After careful thought, I think it will be convenient to keep E. Lehmanni as a 

 distinct species, on the ground that, in the vast majority of cases, the calyx-tubes of 

 E. cornuta are not connate into a head as in E. Lehmanni. I have sometimes seen 

 them apparently fused, but the only true transit specimen I have seen is from the 

 Alexander River (H. P. Turnbull, see Part XXXIV, p. 105), and as this specimen comes 

 from the most easterly locahty recorded (for E. cornuta), it would be desirable to know 

 more about it. It may be that E. Lehmanni and E. cornuta pass into each other as 

 we go east. At the same time Mr. Staer's Eucla Lehmanni specimen wants confirming, 

 so finality is not yet reached. I have never seen in E. cornuta the fine scarlet colouring 

 of the opercula as observed in E. Lehmanni. The head of flowers or fruits in the latter 

 species is always larger than in the former species. Mueller says he has seen it 4 inches 

 across in E. Lehmanni. 



RANGE. 



It is confined to Western Australia. The type came from Cape Riche (Mt. 

 Melville). 



Bentham gives it " South Coast to the east of King George's Sound; stony hills 

 from Bald Island and Stirling Range eastward to Cape Arid." 



Mr. J. Staer sent it to me labelled " Eucla," which is on the Australian Bight, 

 at the junction of Western and South Australia, but I would like to be assured that this 

 is not from a planted specimen. 



Old specimens I have seen are : — 



" Eucalyptus cornuta, Labill. X. Holland, S. Coast, Fraser, Ex herb. Lambert " 

 in Herb. Cant. Ex herb. Lemann. This specimen was probably collected by Baxter, 

 who collected around King George's Sound for the Sydney Botanic Gardens in Charles 

 Fraser's time (1825). 



Bald Island, W.A. (Oldfield) Herb. Barbey Boissier. Recently I got it from 

 Dr. F. Stoward as " Marlock." " Height up to 30 feet and up to 12 inches in diameter. 

 Bald and Middle Islands"' (Xo. 115). These islands are a little east of King George's- 

 Sound. 



Going a little north, we have " Shrub | to \\ metre in height, leaves glaucescent, 

 peduncles recurved." Stirling Range in stony hills at a height of 280 metres (Dr. L. 

 Diels, No. 2987). 



West of King George's Sound, and the only specimen I have seen west, is " Tree 

 of 35 feet, with a smooth bark. Large seed-pod like a water-can top." Wilson's Inlet 

 (S. W. Jackson). 



