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4. Var. grandiflora n. var. 



A shrub or small tree with long supple branchlets, leaves not very shiny, fila- 

 ments yellow, fruits cylindroid, and the largest seen in the species, being 1-5 cm. long 

 and 1 cm. in diameter. Kurrawang, near Kalgoorlie, W.A. (Dr. J. B. Cleland.) I 

 propose the name variety grandiflora for this form. 



I have a leaf and two fruits (no buds) of the following, which appears to belong 

 to this variety : — 



A tree of 25-35 feet, in clayey-sand, Camp 63, a few miles south-east of Queen 

 Victoria Spring, W.A., 27th September, 1891 (R. Helms, Elder Exploring 

 Expedition). 



I was at first inclined to consider this a coarse form of var. eremophila, but against 

 that view I have to consider, that the only calyx-tubes I have seen taper gradually 

 into the operculum. The affinity of var. grandiflora is, therefore, with the normal form 

 of E. occidentalis , rather than with the variety eremophila. But there is still a good 

 deal of inquiry yet to be made in regard to the various forms of E. occidentalis , before 

 we can finally classify the different forms. 



E. eremophila var. grandiflora is interesting because it is related to E. Pimpiniana 

 Maiden (this work, part XVI, p. 211), a species of obscure relations, partly because of 

 the paucity of the material known. But the leaves of E. Pimpiniana and of the variety 

 are very different, so far as the available material goes. 



E. Stowardi Maiden (Proc. Roy. Soc. N.S.W., LI, 457, 1917 (1918), has evidently 

 some affinity. 



AFFINITIES (to E. occidentalis). 



1. With E. resinifera Sm. 



This affinity was mentioned by Endlicher, the describer of E. occidentalis , but 

 the relations are not close. E . resinifera is an east Australian species, and is figured 

 in Part XXX. I only take note of it here because of Endlicher' s remark, for botanists 

 were hazy as to E. resinifera in his day. 



2. With E. grossa F.v.M. 



" E. grossa is removed from E. occidentalis by generally broader and thicker leaves, shorter and 

 stouter flower stalks, absence of stalklets, proportio'natc shortness of the calyx -lid, filaments inflexcd in their 

 earliest state and of less rigidity, and entirely closed fruit valves .... Some shrubby specimens 

 of E. occidentalis, verging to E. obcordata, but being narrow leaved, were placed by Bentham doubtfully 

 with E. grossa." (" Eucalyptographia," under E. occidentalis.) 



For figures of E. grossa see Part IV, Plate 18, and Part XVI, Plate 72. In 

 E. grossa the peduncle is shorter and flatter, the operculum shorter and more conoid, 

 the fruit more cylindroid. We know very little about E. grossa, and I hope that our 

 Western Australian friends will be on the lookout for it. 

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