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E. Blaxlandi. One of Mr. Howitt's specimens was figured at 2a-c, Plate 38, as regards 

 seedling leaves, buds, and fruits. They are from Osier's Creek, and have much in 

 common with E. Blaxlandi from the Blue Mountains and the South Coast of New South 

 Wales. The seedling leaves are narrower than those depicted for the type, but many 

 of the type specimens are similar. The chief difference is that the fruits are more 

 pedicellate than those of the type. 



" Small fruited Yellow Stringybark," but when freshly cut and green the heart 

 wood is brown in colour. Wangarabelle, also found plentifully between Genoa and 

 Mallacoota, and at Cann River; also at Orbost. (H. Hopkins, 1915). 



Now let us proceed to Western Victoria (Portland district). If we turn to page 

 213, Part VIII, with the corresponding figures 8, 9, 10 of Plate 37, we find that they 

 have a good deal in common with E. Blaxlandi, and are perhaps inseparable from that 

 species; they also possess affinity to E. capitellata, from which they differ in the following 

 points : — In the broader suckers, which are nearer those of E. capitellata, and in the 

 pedicellate fruits with the valves less exsert. 



At the same time the affinitks to E. lavopinea R. T. Baker are worthy of con- 

 sideration, and should be wo:ked out. (This form of E. Blaxlandi ascends to the 

 Grampians, see p. 218, Part VIII, and fig. 12 of Plate 37). 



South Australia. 



These Western Victorian specimens carry us on to South Australia, and the 

 species is found in the south-east, Kangaroo Island, Mount Lofty, and elsewhere. 



A reference to the south-east is under Narracoorte, p. 218, Part VIII, where we 

 have clavate, scarcely angular buds, with domed fruits, valves well exsert. These are 

 figured at 11, Plate 37. 



There is a reference to a Kangaroo Island specimen collected by Robert Brown 

 about 1802 at p. 213 of Part VIII, viz. :— 



Kangaroo Island, Hundred of Cassini (W. J. Spafford, No. 7, 1916). This 

 cannot be separated from figs. 11a and 116, Plate 37 (Narracoorte). 



We now come to the Mount Lofty specimens referred to at p. 218, Part VIII, 

 and if we turn to figures Ib-f of Plate 38 of fruits all gathered from the same tree, we have 

 a remarkable instance of variation in this species. Fruits sessile, shortly pedicellate, 

 rim flat-topped or domed, valves sunk or exsert. Some of the specimens are remarkably 

 like the type of E. Blaxlandi. 



Then we have Aldgate, near Mount Lofty (J.H.M.), with juvenile leaves scabrous, 

 nearly orbicular to oblong and broadly lanceolate. Not to be separated from the 

 Narracoorte specimens (S.A.), nor from those from Osier's Creek (Vic). See also 

 Willunga, Mount Lofty Range (W. Gill). 



The following locality is more distant. One or two miles west of Bordertown, 

 where the scrub of the 90-mile Desert begins (J. M. Black, No. 2). Like Narracoorte, 

 but with mostly smaller fruits. 



