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SYNONYM (of the variety). 



E. Wilkinsoniana R. T. Baker in Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., xxv, 678 (1900), with 

 a figure of a fruit at fig. 2, Plate XLVI. In the original description of E. Wilkinsoniana, 

 E. Icevopinea var. minor is given as a synonym. 



A couple of years later, at p. 40, " Research on the Eucalypts," under E. Wilkin- 

 soniana, Messrs. Baker and Smith say : 'It was placed later as a variety of E. Icevo- 

 pinea, on chemical evidence alone, but when the tree was better known, its characters 

 were such as to warrant specific rank. The red-coloured rim is quite absent from 

 E. Icevopinea." My experience in regard to the last sentence is quite different. I 

 have often seen the red rim in E. Icevopinea of all shapes and sizes of fruit. 



In its typical form E. Icevopinea is large-fruited, but smaller-fruited forms are 

 found over a wide range. The form with the non-exsert valves to which the name 

 E. Wilkinsoniana has been given, cannot be separated from E. Icevopinea, even as a 

 variety. Great acquisitions have been made to the National Herbarium daring the 

 last few years, and some forms have disclosed an amount of variation which was not 

 thought possible at one time. I am of opinion that the Stringybark species are variable 

 to an extent not exceeded by any other group of Eucalypts. The remarks made by 

 me in regard to var. minor and E. Wilkinsoniana in this work, viii, p. 221, were 

 written in 1903, and having been carefully re-examined with vastly additional 

 material seem to be true now. 



Messrs. Baker and Smith (" Research on the Eucalypts," 1902) state that the 

 oils of E. Icevopinea and E. Wilkinsoniana differ in the presence of eucalyptol in the 

 latter, and in other details. I cannot trace any modification of this statement, and I 

 challenge the general truth of it as regards the oils of, say, half a dozen trees reputed 

 to be E. Icevopinea and E. Wilkinsoniana respectively. 



RANGE (of the normal form). 



It appears to be confined to New South Wales. 



It seems, in its approximately typical form, to be confined to the northern parts 

 of New South Wales, e.g., Rylstone, Upper Hunter, Liverpool Range, Counties of Hawes 

 and Pottinger, Nundle, southern New England. Rylstone, the most southerly locality, 

 is about 150 miles north-west of Svdnev. 



