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SYNONYMS. 



1. E. eapitellata Sm. var. (?) latifolia Benth. 



2. E. santalifolia F. v. M. var. (?) Baxteri Benth. 



The type specimen of the former does not appear to differ from the type specimen 

 of the latter. See, as regards the synonymy of E. Baxteri, Part VIII, pp. 212 and 213, 

 and, as regards E. eapitellata var. (?) latifolia Benth., p. 212, both under E. eapitellata Sm. 



The above conclusion has been pretty strongly indicated in Part VIII, and will 

 be useful to amalgamate or co-ordinate the localities of the two forms, which have been 

 kept apart too long. 



A further specimen from Kangaroo Island (which is doubtless the type locality 

 for E. Baxteri and E. santalifolia var. Baxteri) has been collected by W. J. Spaflord, May, 

 1916. The specimen does not appear to differ from those collected by J. G. Robertson 

 and W. Adams at Portland Bay, Victoria . The latter is the type locality of E. eapitellata 

 Sm. var. latifolia Benth. There seems no room for doubt that E. eapitellata var. latifolia 

 Benth., and E. santalifolia var. Baxteri Benth., are conspecific. As the name latifolia 

 is pre-occupied by a valid species, that of Baxteri has the next claim. 



In my (J.H.M.) paper (Journ. Bot., July, 1906, p. 234) occurs the passage : — 

 " The specimens in the British Museum, on which Bentham based his variety (E. 

 mntalifolia var. (?) Baxteri) are labelled by Brown ' Eucalyptus, Mr. W. Baxter, received 

 ltt28, probably South Coast (of Australia) perhaps Kangaroo Island, or possibly 

 '7. D. Land.' Bentham has written on the sheet, and quotes in Fl. Austral, the 

 name E. Baxteri R. Br., biit Mr. Britten informs me that this name does not appear 

 in Brown's MSS." So that, on the principle of never making a man say what he did 

 not say, the species cannot be E. Baxteri R. Br. ; it should be E. Baxteri Benth. As a 

 matter of fact, Bentham never conceded it more than varietal rank, and, since we have 

 worked out the species, it should, in accordance with the rules of modern nomenclature 

 stand as E. Baxteri (Benth.), Maiden and Blakely. 



Illustrations. 

 The following specimens of E. Baxteri have been already figured :— 



1. Figures 8a-d, Plate 37 (E. eapitellata var. (?) latifolia), Portland, Victoria. 



2. Figures 9a-c, Plate 37 (E. santalifolia var. Baxteri), Portland. 



3. Figures 10a, b, Plate 37, Portland (W. Adams). 



4. Figures 11a, b, Plate 37, Narracoorte, S.A. (W. Gill). 



5. Figures 12a-c, Plate 37, Grampians, Victoria (H. B. Williamson). 



6. Figures la-f, plate 38, Mount Lofty, South Australia (Max Koch.) 



7. Figures 2a-c, Plate 38, Osier's Creek, Victoria (A. W. Howitt), var. pedicellata 



n. var. 



