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Luehniann, as we have already seen, was also of opinion that it could not be 

 maintained as a species distinct from E. occidentalis . 



The plates of E. occidentalis are published in the present Part. The opercula 

 of that species are shorter and more cylindrical as a general rule, the fruits stalked, 

 larger and more campanulate. 



E. occidentalis var. aslringens is the form of the species which seems to most 

 nearly approach E. macrandra, but the buds are shorter, and while the fruits are so 

 small as to approach those of E. macrandra in size, they are distinctly pedicellate and 

 have the tips of the valves distinctly exserted. 



3. With E. dumosa A. Cunn. var. (?) rhodophloia Benth. (B. Fl. iii, 230). 

 See Part IV of the present work, with figures la and 16 of Plate 21. 



The fruits as figured at la strongly resemble those of E. macrandra (as figured at 

 fig. 3b, Plate 150). The opercula are very different, but, in view of the imperfect state 

 of our knowledge of (?) var. rhodophloia, and even of E. macrandra, the affinities of the 

 two Eucalypts should be borne in mind. 



