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The South AustraTum Naturalist. 
BOTANICAL NOTES. 
By Ernest H. Ising. 
Eucalyptus capitellata Sm. 
I am advised by Mr. J. M. Black that, only a fortnight before 
his death, Mr. J. H. Maiden decided that this stringybark is a 
new species and that he and Mr. W. F. Blakely are naming it 
E, Baxteri. 
It was first named by Smith in White’s ‘Woyage to New South 
Wales” in 1790 from specimens collected near Sydney. In 1828 
Robert Brown named a specimen E. Baxteri collected by Wm. 
Baxter on the South coast probably Kangaroo Island. This was 
placed by Maiden (1) under E. capitellata. As no description hy 
R. Brown can be found the name E. Baxteri under his authorship 
cannot stand. A second specimen collected by Baxter is referred 
to E. sa?italifolia F.v.M., as var. Baxteri by Bentham but as this 
plant is now^ raised to specific rank Bentham’s authorship is 
invalid. 
The next name given to this species was E. Blaxlandi by Mai- 
den and Cambage (2) in 1918 but it is now considered that this 
species does not occur in this State. The way is now clear for the 
use of the name of E. Baxteri as Browm’s description of it cannot 
be traced and Bentham’s is only a varietal name. 
The authors are also naming a new variety, E. Baxteri, var. 
pedicellata specimens of which were collected by Messrs. Morison 
Ham and Ising between Longw’ood and Alt. Bold in November 
this year. It is believed that E. Muelleriana is also to be dropped 
in favor of the above variety. 
Acacia rkigiophylla F.v.M. 
I he re-discovery of this spiny wattle is due to the excellent 
collecting of Prof. J. B. Cleland, who found it at KInchina in 1924. 
It was first collected by Mueller in 1848 between Mount Barker 
and River Alurray so that it wms lost sight of for 76 years. Kin- 
china being in the same district possibly it may have been re-dis- 
covcred in the same piece of scrub situated in a low range about 
0 miles west of Murray Bridge. The plant resembles A. colleti- 
omes very closely and may have been confused with it, however 
It is very restricted in range this is the only district in this State 
from which it has been recorded. It was found in West Wyalong 
m New South Wales in 1902. 
(1) Grit. Rev. Gen. Eucal. Part VIII (1907), 213 
(2) Proc. Roy. Soc. N.S.W., LII (1918), 495. 
