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specimens (also on the coast) are of the same length and size; presumably through 
being near to the sea, some of them are more coriaceous. The buds are pointed, 
like those of the Emmaville specimens. I therefore find the var. brevifolia a very 
unstable form, for we have— 
1. Blunt opercula and blunt short leaves (var. brevifolia). 
2. Blunt opercula and long leaves. (Orange Gum of Port Macquarie.) 
3. Long opercula and long leaves. (Burpengary.) 
4. Long opercula and leaves intermediate in length. (Emmaville.) 
I think it best to include them under one name, which those who hold 
different views as to the limitation of species can accept as a variety or a species, as 
they see fit, viz.:— E. tereticornis, Sm.; var. Bancrofti, Maiden; or, E. Bancrofti, 
Maiden. 
Apart from the inappropriateness of the name brevifolia for my wider variety, 
the name brevifolia for a species {E. brevifolia , E.v.M.) is pre-occupied. The variety 
is a depauperate form, and is nearest to var. squamosa in habit, foliage, and timber, 
though not in fruits. Mueller confused the two varieties, as has already been 
stated. 
On tops of hills, Liverpool Range, we have a small tree of erect habit, and 
somewhat like Spotted Gum in appearance. It has markedly triplinerved sap- 
green leaves. In the general shape of the leaves, in buds and fruits, it is inter¬ 
mediate in character between Bentham’s var. brevifolia and var. latifolia. As it is 
not far from the region where var. brevifolia is chiefly found, I have placed it with 
that variety. At the same time var. latifolia, which has a far wider range, occurs 
at no great distance. A specimen like this is very interesting, as showing how 
impossible it sometimes is to name a tree without qualification. 
In dried specimens a dark line round the suture of the bud is often seen in 
this variety and var. latifolia. 
In New England, e.g., Tenterfield (H. Deane) there are trees of E. tereti¬ 
cornis, which in their glaucous buds and in their fruits absolutely connect with var. 
Bancrofti. 
Another connecting link is from Parish of Uffington, also Williams River 
(A. Rudder), with leaves broad and glaucous all over, which connects with 
Bentham’s var. brevifolia. 
Eucalyptus exserta, F.v.M, 
Journ. Linn. Soc. iii. 85 (1859). 
Synonyms. — E. rostrata, Schlecht.; var. exserta, E.v.M.; E. Foeld-Bay, 
Naudin. 
I now bring under notice a tree which was suppressed by Mueller himself 
and for many years has been erroneously included under both E. rostrata and 
