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SYNONYMS. 



1. E. splaehnicarpa Hook. 



2. E. glaucophylla Hoffmansegg (perhaps) 



1. In Hooker's Bot. Mag. t. 4036, is a figure of a twig in bud and flower, with 

 immature fruit, sufficient, however, to distinguish the species. This is accompanied 

 by a description in Latin, of which the following is a translation : — ■ 



Leaves alternate, oblique, ovate-lanceolate, with a marginal vein, penninerved, coriaceous, with 

 terminal compound umbels, hemispherical operculum, sub-globose, broader than the calyx-tube. Fruit 

 splachniform in shape. 



Splachniform means that it resembles the fructification of a moss of the genus 

 Splachnum. Sir William Hooker was a considerable authority on mosses. 



2. E. glaucophijlla Hoffmg. 



The original, in a very rare work, is as follows : — ■ 



li (429) Eucalyptus glaucophylla. E. foliis superioribus sparsis petiolatis oblongis acuminatis 

 apiculatis coriaceis glaucis, passim basi inaequalibus, nervis reticulantibus ante marginem connexis. 



Hab. in Austral. 



Caulis ramique teretia, cumque petiolis purpurascentia. Folia utiinque glauca. Pctiolo tvf eiioics 

 ad 6" lg. Lamina magis nunc ad ovatum nunc ad lanccolatum accedens, versus apicem sensum angustata 

 4-6' lg., cc 2' It., nervo primario pallido. 



An E. longifolia ? Link. Enum. Nonullis quadrans, aliis discrepans. Diffeit enum potissimum : 

 foliis plurimis basinon inaequilibus, nullis ullo modo punctatis, coloris valde glauci, qui tamen in aliis, e.g., 

 purpurascente, expresse memoratur, nulla mentione, acumine non incurvo, ita ut illam credere non audeam. 

 Quousque sese extendat identitas, pronuncient comparantes arbitri me peritiores. 



Peregrinator quidam dixit, earn a cl. Wendland E. glaucescentem vocari; alii peritiores, meam 

 aliam, novamque sp., asserunt." (Hofrmg. Verz. Pfl. Nachtr. 2, p. 113.) 



Schauer in Walpers'' Repertorium ii, 927, says this is E. splaehnicarpa Hook. 

 I have not seen the type, but agree with Bentham that it is " very doubtful," 

 particularly as there is an absence of glaucousness in the foliage of E. calophylla. 



RANGE. 



The type came from near Cape Leeuwin, Western Australia, and the species 

 has not been found out of that State. Schauer says it is found around Perth and 

 " totius coloniae." 



Bentham says " Common about King George's Sound, R. Brown, Eraser, Oldfield 

 and others; and thence to Swan River, Eraser, Drummond No. 150; Preiss's No. 250; 

 rare towards Port Gregory, Oldfield.'" 



