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Bentliam, as stated, described the species, but lie pointed out the inadequacy of 

 the material, and even doubted if it should be given specific rank. In Fragm. x, 5 

 (1876), Mueller recorded it from Glen of Palms, Macdonnell Range, Northern Territory 

 (E. Giles), and described the flowers (5-7 and nearly sessile) for the first time. He 

 indicated its true affinity to E. pyriformis. 



Mueller then figured the species in his " Eucalyptographia," and as usual he 

 missed the opportunity of figuring the type. 



From Tanami, western Northern Territory (Dr. IT. I. Jensen, No. 206, 1914), 

 I have received both E. pachyphylla (resembling No. 371) and a small-flowered 

 E. pyriformis under the same number, and undoubtedly the species are closely related. 



Mueller's " Eucalyptographia " plate of this rare species is misleading to the 

 extent that it will cause most people to think that it correctly depicts his E. pachy- 

 phylla. As a matter of fact, it shows a multiflowered, pedicellate form. To put 

 botanists on their guard, I considered it at one time desirable to indicate the plant 

 figured by Mueller as var. pedieellata. 



SYNONYMS. 



1. E. pyriformis Turcz., var. min or Maiden (in part). 



2. E. pachyphylla F.v.M., var. pedieellata Maiden. 



1. E. pyriformis Turcz., var. minor Maiden in part. This work, Part XVII, 



p. 230, also Plate 75, figs. 5 and 6 (figs, la and 76 are E. Oldfieldii F.v.M.). 



There was an unfortunate mix-up of material in the Melbourne Herbarium 

 shortly after Mueller's death, referred to at p. 12. 



2. E. pachyphylla F.v.M., var. pedieellata Maiden in Proc. Roy. Soc. N.S.W., 



lii, 508(1918). 



Misled by the original description (a) of the peduncles and pedicels as very short, 

 (b) of Bentham's description of the fruits as " nearly sessile," (c) by Mueller's description 

 of the flowers of the Glen of Palm specimens as " nearly sessile " (having seen them I 

 would call them "sessile "), but particularly by (d) the upper part of the "Eucalypto- 

 graphia " plate, where Mueller shows two clusters of buds and flowers sessile (the cluster 

 of fruits has exaggerated pedicels), I looked upon the normal form as sessile, and, 

 therefore, a form with pedicels as worthy of a varietal name, pedieellata. I now find 

 that the normal state of the species is pedicellate, so that the variety pedieellata must 

 fall, while a variety sessilis has been proposed at p. 14. 

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