NOTES ON EUCALYPTUS. 513 
variety Luehmanniana”’ of HE. stricta being referred to in 
the following passage, ‘“‘ But the real H. virgata does 
undergo a development in another direction, enlarging to 
that startling state which was distinguished as EH. Lueh- 
manniana.”’ 
In other words, Mueller suppressed H. virgata twice, 
placing it under E. Sieberiana and under E. stricta. But 
he brings it forward again in his Second Census, giving only 
the reference Fragm. xi, 38, which was earlier than that 
of the ‘*‘ Kucalyptographia,’’ Decade 10, which is the last 
known comment by him on the synonymy. 
His E. Sieberiana is accepted (as a new combination) 
because we selectively choose the Mountain Ash as the 
type. Mueller makes precisely the same number of mis- 
takes as Bentham did, but the latter employed the name 
E. virgata, which we must read sensu strictu. 
Figures 1 and 2 of plate 43, O.R., are what they purport 
to be, the type, together with a modern specimen of H. 
virgata. Figures A and B of plate 94 of my ‘Forest Flora 
of N.S.W.”’ depict a larger specimen of figure 2, above, and 
are from the same source. 
Turning to my remarks on the range of E. virgata in 
C.R., part ix, p. 281, the notes on the three trees may be 
supplemented as follows. Including the previous specimens, 
I have now perfect suites of all three. 
(a), (b) and (c). Messrs. W. F. Blakely and J. L. Boorman 
visited the spot on 24th August, 1918, and matched the 
following from the same clumps of plants. Mr. Blakely’s 
words are ‘*‘Mallee-like shrubs, or sometimes reduced to 
two stems. Ten to twenty feet high. Timber very hard. 
Branches almost slate blue; occasionally mottled brown. 
Young tips conspicuously bright yellow against the glaucous 
green of the adult foliage.”’ 
Ge—December 4, 1918. 
