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DESCRIPTION. 



CCXIX. E. IcBVopinea R. T. Baker. 



In Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., xxiii, 414 (1898), with Plate X. 



As the description will be found at length at Part I, pp. 36, 37, of the present work, 

 it need not be repeated here. I have a note on the species in Proc. Roy. Soc. N.S.W., 

 lii, 499 (1918). 



From what will be said presently, particularly in speaking of the variety minor, 

 it will be seen that this Stringybark is no exception to the rule that such Eucalypts vary 

 a great deal. The normal species, indeed the typical form, is figured at figs. 1 and 2 

 of Plate 167. 



SYNONYM. 



E. pilularis Sin. var. Muelleriana Maiden (in part). 



In Part I, p. 34, of the present work, I looked upon E. Muelleriana Howitt, 

 E. dextropinea R. T. Baker and E. Iwvopinea R. T. Baker as conspecific, and as forming 

 a variety of E. pilularis. There is no doubt that E. dextropinea is but another name 

 for E. Muelleriana, but I am now of opinion that E. losvopinea should stand. 



VARIETY. 



Var. minor E. T. Baker. 



A tree with, the same characters as the type, except that the buds are sessile and the fruits smaller. 

 The oil, however, is white and thin, instead of a reddish colour as in the former species ; the absence of 

 colour is due to the presence of phellandrene. Otherwise the oil is identical in its chemical composition 

 with that of the above species, being composed almost entirely of lsevo-rotatory pinene. Hob. Barber's 

 Creek (E. Rumsey). (K. T. Baker in Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., xxiii, 416 (1898).) 



The variety has already been figured at Plate 38 (figs. 17 a-d and 18a and b). 



