NOTES ON EUCALYPTUS. 115 



Eivartiana &re smaller, more numerous, have long peduncles 

 and are distinctly pedicellate* The operculum is very 

 different to that of E. Oldfieldii; it is hemispherical and 

 shows a contraction with the calyx tube which is not 

 observable in E. Oldfieldii, The two species also differ 

 in other characters. 



2. With E. Drummondii Benth. Compare fig. 11, Plate 

 74 (E. Ewartiana), with figs. 3, 5, 6, 7, 9, 10 of the same 

 Plate (E. Drummondii). The buds of E. Drummondii are 

 more ovoid than those of E. Eivartiana; the former have 

 much longer and slender pedicels. The shape of the fruit 

 is different in the two species, that of E. Drummondii 

 having a more convex rim, with the tips of the valves 

 more exsert. The mature leaves of E. Drummondii are 

 usually more or less ovate-lanceolate, a character not 

 observed in those of E. Eivartiana. The juvenile leaves 

 of E. Eivartiana are remarkably coriaceous, and so broadly 

 lanceolate as to be almost orbicular. 



3. With E. Lane-Poolei n. sp. E. Lane-Poolei is a 

 moderately large White Gum, found in coastal situations; 

 E. Eivartiana is a Mallee frequenting regions of low rain- 

 fall. The foliage of the former is thin, lanceolate to nar- 

 row lanceolate, that of the latter much broader and thicker, 

 with the juvenile foliage remarkably coriaceous and so 

 broad as to be almost orbicular, and considerably larger 

 than that of E. Lane-Poolei. While the texture of the 

 operculum of E. Eivartiana is thinnish, that of E. Lane- 

 Poolei is remarkably thick, while comparison of the figures 

 on Plate 74, viz., 4 (E. Lane-Poolei) and 11 (E. Eivartiana) 

 shows that they are widely different. 



4. With E. accedens W. V. Fitzgerald. In the size, 

 paleness and extreme coriaceousness, I know only one 

 species whose juvenile leaves resemble those of E. Eivarti- 

 ana, and that is E. accedens. See fig. 8, Plate 141, O.R. 

 But in almost every other character the two species 

 diverge. 



