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Vermischte neue Diagnosen. 



LXVII. Vermischte neue Diagnosen. 



1072. Eucalyptus goniantha Turcz. var. Clelandi J. H. Maiden, in Journ. 

 \V. Austr. Nat. Hist. Soc. III. (1911), p. 176. 



Following are observations made when standing before the 

 trees, and valuable for that reason. — Western Australia: Lannin's 

 Timber Camp, nearly 70 miles north of Kurrawang, where it is widely 

 diffused. A Blackbutt. Bark hard- flaky and black in colour at butt. 

 Timber cigar-brown, very hard, but not so tough as Morrel. — Goon- 

 garrie, 54 miles north of Kalgoorlie. A „Blackbutt", 18 inches in dia- 

 meter and 30 feet high, with bark fibrous-flaky at butt, the rest and all 

 the branches smooth. Branchlets glaucous, as likewise the whole of the 

 saplings. — Foliage more or less pendulous. — Juvenile leaves ovate- 

 acuminate, pedunculate, equally glaucous green on both sides, venation 

 not conspicuous, except the midrib, intramarginal vein distinctly removed 

 from the edge. — Mature leaves narrow-lanceolate, 12 x 1,5 cm, being 

 common dimensions, petiolate, dull green, coriaceous, venation not con- 

 spicuous, lateral veins feather-like, intramarginal vein hardly removed 

 from the edge. — Buds with long corrugated opercula, the calyx- tube 

 but slightly corrugate or smooth. Diameter of the operculum sligthly 

 exceeding that of the calyx-tube at the line of junction. — Fruits 

 numerous, very glaucous, nearly sessile, on a common peduncle of 

 about 1 cm. Subcylindrical in shape, about 5 cm long, valves slightly 

 exsert. 



1073. Eucalyptus ocddentalis Endl. var. spathulata (Hook, f.) J. H. 

 Maiden, 1. c, p. 188. — A dense scrubby growth 4—6 feet high (Mar- 

 lock), with conoid, angular fruits, flattened foot-stalks, buds egg-in-egg- 

 cup, and narrow or spathulate leaves. — The second growth foliage is 

 very much more spathulate than shown by Hooker in Ic. 611. I, however 

 picked from the same clump of shrubs specimens precisely similar to 

 those in Hooker s figure and also some strictly spathulate 5 cm long and 

 rather more than 2 broad. They are all thick and coriaceous, and the 

 venation appears to be not dissimilar to that of E. ocddentalis. — 

 Western Australia: It is rather common near the Kalgan River 

 (Porongorup to Stirling Range). I have received it also from Broome 

 Hill (Dr. A. Morrison). — Mueller looks upon this as an extreme form 

 of E. occidenlalis, and, after careful consideration, I agree. It is another 

 instance of a fruticose form of a species well known in tree-form; var. 

 macrandra is another fruticose form, and examination of my suite of 

 specimens of that variety has convinced me that the two varieties are 

 closely related and that neither can be usefully separated from the 

 normal species. 1 will bring the connecting links out in due course in 

 my „Critical Revision", illustrations being helpful. — Mueller did not 

 name this form, but it is so different in appearance both in the field 

 and herbarium from E. ocddentalis that 1 think a name is justified. 



1074. Aster durus J. Lunell, in Amer.Midl. Nat., II (1911), p. 148. — Gaulis 

 do rhizomate longo, gracili, liorizontali oriens, ercctus, gracilis, purpurascens. 



