Eucalypti generis species novae. I. 51 
rable distance from the edge, often looped (braehydodromous). „Leaves 
hang straight down“ (Cambage). Buds usually clavate and sometimes 
with pointed opercula. Flowers. — Anthers uniform. Fruits usually 
pyriform in shape, often nearly conical, rather more than !/, inch in 
diameter. The valves often well sunk below the rim, but the points of 
the valves occasionally protruding. Sometimes the rim is slightly domed 
and the valves rather more exserted. The rim broad, smooth, well-defined 
and usually red in colour. 
A medium-sized tree with grey tough bark to the tips of the 
branches, said bark being of that subfibrous character well known in 
Australia as „peppermint“, very like that of E piperita, but very different 
from that of E. Sieberiana. 
Timber. — Wood pale-coloured, with kino rings, remarkably like 
that of the common Sydney Peppermint (E. piperita Sm.) „Soft and 
ringy, not nearly so good as Mountain Ash, E. Sieberiana“ (Boorman), 
Range. — In coastal and coast-range districts of New South Wales, 
extending, as far as is known at present, from the Ulladulla District in 
the south across the country to near Gonlburn, thence via Burragorang 
to the Blue Mountains (Springwood), and the Penang Mountain near 
Gosford. 
Affinities. — The closest affinity of this species is to E. Sieberiana 
and E. piperita; in fact, it is possible that it is a hybrid between these 
two species. The bark is fibrous like that of E. piperita, and the general 
appearance of the tree reminds one of that species. The leaves, buds 
and fruits are reminiscent of E. Sieberiana, though the leaves are perhaps 
thinner. The narrow juvenile foliage leaves, however, separate the new 
species from any with which it is most likely to be confounded. 
That the species possesses strong affinity to E. stricta Sieb., there 
is no doubt; while its affinity to E. fastigata Deane and Maiden, is con- 
siderable, in points other than that of the shape of the fruits. It was 
referred to in these Proceedings by Mr. Deane and myself (1900, p. 109) 
as E. stricta var., and (1901, p. 123) as a form of E. fastigata. 
5. Eucalyptus amygdalina Labill. var. numerosa Maiden, l. c., p. 752 
(vel E. numerosa Maiden). in allusion to the very large number of flowers 
in the umbel. 
Syn.: E. amygdalina Labill. var. radiata Benth. 
Juvenile leaves. — The young stems have a rusty, glandular 
appearance, and the leaves are very narrow. I do not note any difference 
between them and the leaves of the normal species. Mature leaves. 
— Thin; though usually narrow, up to 14 lines broad, often from 4 to 
7 inches long. Although the leaves of this form are very thin, specimens 
from Bateman's Bay to Wagonga are especially thin. These specimens 
also have unusually narrow léaves. Fruits. — Large in number (com- 
monly 20 or more); Mueller counted as many as 43 in the umbel (see 
„Eucalyptographia“ under E. amygdalina). I have often counted them with 
40 in an umbel, borne on rather long, often filiform pedicels. They have 
