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AFFINITIES. 



1. With E. terminalis F.v.M. 



" E. Foelscheana belongs to the series exemplified by E. terminalis If it was not for 



the great diversity of habit, E. Foelscheana might be approximated very closely to E. terminalis.'" 

 (" Eucalyptographia," under E. Foelscheana.) 



Compare Plates 164 and 165 (Part XL) for E. terminalis, with Plates 169 and 

 170, this Part, for E. Foelscheana. E. Foelscheana is a smaller, more gnarled tree, with 

 very much coarser foliage. The fruits of E. terminalis are longer and narrower, usually 

 less urceolate, or, if urceolate, more high-shouldered. Those of both species may be 

 very large. Both have red timbers. 



2. With E. latifolia F.v.M. 



In some respects it is allied to E. latifolia; the leaves, however, are larger and not decurrent at 

 the base ; the petioles are comparatively shorter and, as well as the branchlets, less slender ; the peduncles 

 and pedicels are thicker and less angular ; the calyces larger, not roundish-blunt at the base, and therefore 

 not passing suddenly into a pedicel of upwards unincreased thickness ; the fruit is much larger, at least twice 

 as long as broad ; and considerably contracted towards the summit, thus not almost semi-ovate ; the 

 flowers of the real E. latifolia are as yet unknown, and may prove different from those of the E. Foelscheana , 

 though their anthers, seen as remnants, show the same form." (Original description.) 



He repeats these observations in almost the same words, and adds " A few 

 adherent anthers of E. latifolia do, however, exhibit the same form. These two 

 species hold almost the same relation to each other as E. urnigera to E. cordata" 

 (" Eucalyptographia " under E. Foelscheana). 



Compare Plates 168 and 169. E. Foelscheana is a very much coarser species 

 than E. latifolia. as regards its inflorescence and fructification. The former species 

 shows greater extremes of size in leaves than does the latter; I have not seen huge 

 leaves nor lanceolar ones in E. latifolia. The fruit of that species is smaller, less urceolate, 

 the orifice smaller, and has slenderer peduncles and pedicels. 



3. With E. setosa Schauer. 



The affinities with this species are less close. Compare Plate 158, Part XXXVIII, 

 for fruits of E. setosa, which are large, and frequently of the same shape as those of 

 E. Foelscheana. but those of the latter are always glabrous. The leaves of the two 

 species are very different, while E. setosa is often a moderately large, umbrageous 

 tree. 



