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what is known as the Box group of barks, and the other to the 

 Woolly-butt group; the timbers also are very different. 



Range. — This species has a very limited range, so far as is 

 known at present, having been found only in the neighbourhood 

 of Hill Top, about 70 miles south of Sydney. 



E. ACACI^FORMIS, Sp.nOV. 



(Plate xxx^■ii.) 



A large, rather umbrageous tree, attaining several feet in trunk 

 diameter (Mr. A. R. Crawford says " over 6 feet "). 



Vernacular names. — This is recognised as a "Peppermint" in 

 New England, and sometimes, by way of distinction," Black," or 

 " Narrow-leaved Peppermint." The term " Ijlack " is in allusion 

 to the dark colour of the bark as compared with that of E. 

 Stuartiana. 



It is the Eucalypt No. 3 of p. 542, Vol. vii , Proc. Aust. Assoc. 

 Adv. Science (" Some Eucalyptsof the New England Table-land," 

 by J. H. Maiden). 



Bark. — Sub-fibrous, resembling that of £. jriperita a good deal. 



" Sometimes very rough and furrowed, almost like an Iron- 

 bark." — (A. R. Crawford, in lift.) 



Timber. — Pale reddish. 



Seedling leaves. — Narrower than the suckers, but otherwise 

 very similar. They are strictly opposite. 



Sucker leaves. — Pale coloured, lanceolate, symmetrical, always 

 blunt at the apex which is somewhat rounded. The margin is 

 crenulate, a very unusual circumstance in a Eucalypt; and the 

 leaves are alternate, and not opposite as is the case of normal 

 Stuartia7ia. The average size of the young lea\'es is If x | in. 



Mature leaves. — Lanceolate, the average size of the leaves being 

 2| X I in. The foliage is not glaucous in any part, not even the 

 sucker foliage. Margins often crenulate. Equally green on both 

 sides. The intra-marginal vein distinctly removed from the edge; 

 the transverse veins fine, nearly parallel, and at about an angle 

 of 45° with the midrib. 



