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SYNONYMS. 



1. E. oleosa F.v.M., var. leptophylla F.v.M. 



2. E. desertorum Naudin. 



1. E. leptophylla is included under E. uncinate Turcz. in B.F1. iii, 216, also by 

 Mueller in his " Census " and elsewhere. Also by Mueller as a variety (leptophylla) 

 of E. oleosa F.v.M., see Part XIV, p. 143. 



Mueller's original specimen of E. leptophylla is labelled in his own handwriting, 

 " Eucalyptus oleosa ferd Mil. /3- leptophylla. In deserto ad fl. Murray, Br. M.," which 

 was altered in Bentham's handwriting to " uncinate." 



The reference to E. oleosa is erroneous; it has the terminal anther found in 

 E. uncinata and other species ; the E. oleosa anther is quite different. 



2. In Part XIV, p. 145 of the present work, E. desertorum is placed under 

 E. uncinata. It should be transferred to E. leptophylla. 



RANGE. 



Speaking generally, it is a dry country species, in contradistinction to 

 E. uncinata, which is mainly a coastal one. Exceptions are Fremantle, Western 

 Australia, and some of the South Australian localities. 



Let us turn to the localities given for E. uncinata in pages 145 and 140, 

 Part XIV. I announce that the whole of them in South Australia, Victoria, and New 

 South Wales should be transferred to E. leptophylla, and the following, recorded under 

 Western Australia, belong to E. leptophylla, also, viz., Tambellup, Cut Hill, and all 

 those given in the top paragraph of page 146. It will be seen how extensive is its 

 range compared with that of E. uncinata. 



In addition, I give the following localities since ascertained : — 



Western Australia. — (a) A specimen labelled " No. 10, Eucalyptus fcecwula 

 Schauer, PI. Preiss, i, p. 130, Fremantle, by L. Preiss, No. 231." 



Preiss speaks of it as a shrub of 5 feet, and Schauer, who wrote the Myrtacea3 

 for Preiss's work, wrongly attributed the Fremantle specimen (which is only in fruit, 

 as he himself states), to his own E. fcecunda. I see no difference between Preiss's 

 No. 231 and E. leptophylla F.v.M. 



