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I believe I have now cleared up a puzzling piece of synonymy, which, was rendered 

 more difficult in regard to the critical problem of matching the type, owing to the fact 

 that, in the vicinity of Tne Spit, E. virgata and E. obtusiflcra, which simulate each other 

 somewhat, were intermixed, but Messrs. Blakely and Bcorman have kept the specimens 

 from every individual plant distinct. 



E. Luehmanniana F.v.M., Fragm. xi, 38, came from (translation) " sandy-stony 

 tableland about 2,000 feet high, eight English miles towards the north from the Bulli 

 district, very rare among ferruginous gravel. W. Kirton." This is practically the 

 southern part of the National Park, the best known locality for the species. 



I have a fragment of the type (leaf and buds only) labelled by Mueller " Eucalyptus 

 virgata Sieber, Bulli, W. Kiitou." I have compared it with Sieber's No. 467, and can 

 see no difference. I do not doubt that it is typical for E. Luehmanniana. Mueller, 

 as the description shows, had ampler material than I have seen. A second specimen, 

 more satisfactory, from the Illawarra, displaying well the characters of E. Luehmanniana, 

 is also so labelled by Mueller, and, in addition, E. virgata Sieb., by him. The above is 

 largely taken from a paper by me in Journ. Roy. Soc. N.S.W ., lii, 510 (1918). 



Illustrations. — The following figures of E. virgata are extant, and render further 

 figures unnecessary (except photographs, showing habit, which it is my intention to 

 submit in a later portion of the present work). In the meantime, a photo, of E. 

 Luehmanniana (E. virgata), National Park, in Part XXV of my "Forest Flora," may 

 suffice. 



1. Figure 1, Plate 43 of the present work, portion of E. virgata Sieb. (the type, 

 being Sieber's No. 467, Fl. Novae Holl.). 



2. Figure 2, -Plate 43. Specimens of E. virgata from The Spit, Middle Harbour, 

 Port Jackson. In the legend I stated that I have specimens from the locality that 

 quite match the type, but those chosen were to show variation, and to some extent 

 have been misleading. Figure A of Plate 94 of my " Forest Flora of New South Wales " 

 shows a specimen of E. virgata in flower from the same spot. 



3. Figures Qa-dk of Plate 44. This is labelled E. Luehmanniana, but, as stated, 

 all the figures are from National Park, Sydney (practically a type locality of E t 

 Luehmanniana), except Qh, 6k, which are from The Spit, Middle Harbour, near Manly, 

 a suburb of Sydney (whence the specimen figured at fig. 2, Plate 43, and labelled 

 E. virgata, was obtained). 



4. Figures A-G of Plate 98, c; Forest Flora of New South Wales," labelled 

 E. Luehmanniana, are all from the National Park, and are E. virgata. 



