The Scientific Notebooks of German Orchidologist Friedrich Wilhelm Ludwig Kränzlin

Flora of Australia 131

ERISTEMON GRACILE, R. Grah. ([crossed out: Proteaceae] [added: Rutaceae]). In Edinb. N Phil. Journ. xvi., 1834, p. 175 = ERISTEMON DIFFORMIS, A. Cunn.

The former name is given as that of a valid species in the Kew Index, and the Nat. Herbarium possesses specimens from the Grampians, which are identical with forms of E. difformis, the glabrous petals and slightly longer flower stalks of the specimens being variable features in E. difformis. The specimens do not exactly tally with the description given in Mueller's Plants Indigenous to Victoria, I., 1860, p.125, but our specimens appear to be authenic. E. gracile is the older name, but to change the current one would be a frivolous interference with established nomenclature. Bentham seems to have entirely overlooked E. gracile, and makes no mention of it in the Flora Australiensis.

ERISTEMON INTERMEDIUS. (Proc. Roy. Soc. Vict., 19, 1907, p.40 = E. DESERTI, Pritzel (Fragm. Phytog. Austr. Occ., 1905. p.320).

The plant was described before Diels' and Pritzel's work was available. Their description is exceedingly condensed, and imperfect in several respects, but specimens of their plant since received show that the two species are identical, the older name standing. Pritzel seems to have overlooked the fact that the plant is an interesting connecting link, especially as regards the stamens between the Leionema section of "Phebalium" and Eriostemon proper. The close resemblance to E. Brucci, which misled Mueller, and to which Pritzel attaches undue importance, is mainly external.

EUPHRASIA COLLINA, R. Br. (Syn. E. BROWNII, F. v. M., Fragm., v. 88 (Scrophulariaceae)

There can be no doubt that Mueller was correct in placing four of R. Brown's species in one, but as was pointed out by Bentham, the proper course was to extend one of them to include the others, and so avoid a new name. Even considered as varieties, the line of demarcation is not distinct in all cases, and the type forms show a regular gradation from the dwarf, small-