454 



We are now in the hills around Adelaide. 



1. Mount Lofty (Max Koch), with rugose bads. Compare those from the 

 Grampians at p. 455. 



2. Juvenile leaves slightly stellate, the lower leaves cordate, the upper broadly 

 oblong, and more or less oblique. Buds rugose, the calyx attenuated; fruit turbinate. 

 Aldgate (J. H. Maiden, January,. 1907). 



3. Buds clavate, almost smooth; fruit sessile, more or less turbinate. Leaves 

 broad and thick. Willunga (W. Gill). 



4. Buds clavate, slightly rugose. Leaves small, narrow-lanceolate : fruit not 

 seen. Mount Compass, about halfway between Willunga and Myponga (Professor J. B. 

 Cleland, No. 26). 



The following specimens in the National Herbarium, Sydney, match the above. 

 They are all from Victoria : — 



1. Leaves broad and short; buds clavate, slightly rugose or verrucose, contracted 

 towards the base. Calyx much longer than the short, blunt operculum. Fruit globular 

 to shortly turbinate, concealing the very short common peduncle. Major Mitchell's 

 Heath, near Portland, 20th March, 1842. Supposed 497 of J.G.R. (J. G. Robertson, No. 

 503). 



2. Fruit only, depressed globular with small valves and more or less truncate. 

 Heath near Portland Bay, 20th March, 1842 (J. G. Robertson). 



Bentham (B. Fl. Ill, 206) says of a Portland Bay specimen : — " Leaves short, 

 obliquely ovate, very thick and much more straight, the bark deciduous (Robertson), 

 Victoria. Heath near Portland (Robertson). Possibly a sessile- flowered form of 

 E. santalifolia, but the form of the calyx is more that of E. capitellata, and quite different 

 from that of E. santalifolia var. Baxteri." 



3. Leaves of 497 rather thick, oblique, broadly lanceolate. Buds clavate, 

 contracted towards the base, the calyx attenuated. " 5 miles from Portland on th e 

 road to Bridgewater Bay. Shrub 6-10 feet high, 5th February," 1844." (J. G. 

 Robertson, No. 497) This and 503 are in flower and early fruit; No. 503 is in 

 ripe fruit also. 



The following specimen was collected from the same locality sixty years later : — 



4. Leaves thick, narrow to broad lanceolate, a few of the short ones oblong. 

 Buds clavate, the calyx tapering into the short pedicel ; operculum shortly conical, 

 slightly rugose. Fruit globular- truncate with a fairly large disc and very small, slightly 

 exserted valves. Portland (W. Adams, per A. E. Kitson November, 1904). 



