458 ON THE EUCALYPTS OP NEW SOUTH WALES, 



glaucous. The rim broadish and convex. Valves three or four 

 and exserted. 



Affinities. — It has been variously looked upon as a broad- 

 suckered form of E. viminalis, or a smooth-barked form of E. 

 Stuartiana, while its affinity to E. Gunnii though less strong is 

 still obvious. We will give a few notes in regard to these three 

 species. 



It resembles E. viminalis in its drooping foliage, flowers in 

 threes, and smooth bark. It is Howitt's viminalis (h). See 

 '' Eucalypts of Gippsland," p. 97, to which excellent account of 

 the tree the student should turn, its affinities to E. viminalis and 

 E. Stuartiana being there clearly indicated. It sharply differs 

 from E. viminalis in its broad glaucous suckers. 



It shows obvious affinity to E. Stiiartiana in its broad suckers; 

 its most obvious differences lie in its smooth bark and thinner 

 leaves. 



Its most obvious similarity to E. Gunnii lies in the fact that 

 it is a smooth-barked Gum with broadish sucker leaves; it may at 

 once be distinguished from that species by the flowers in threes 

 (a constant character of E. ruhida as far as known), less ovate 

 sucker leaves and uniformly narrower mature foliage. 



'^ E. Gunnii, Miq., in Ned. Kruidk. Arch. iv. 126 (not of 

 Hook, f.) from Streleczky Range, Victoria, appears to be E. 

 viminalis " ( B.Fl. iii. 240) is probably E. ruhida. 



Range. — The mountain ranges in the south and south-eastern 

 portions of the Colony. Occurs on the lower slopes of the Mt. 

 Kosciusko ranges up to about 5000 feet. Common about Jinda- 

 byne, Adaminaby, Delegate to Bombala and Cooma, Michelago, 

 Queanbeyan; northerly nearly as far as Moss Vale; westerly as 

 far as Sunny Corner and the tributaries of the Turon. Extends 

 also to Victoria and South Australia (St. Vincent's Gulf). 

 ' Its name of " Flooded Gum " of course indicates the low- lying 

 localities in which it is found, but it is by no means restricted to 

 such situations, occurring in well drained, hilly situations in the 

 southern and westei'n mountain ranges. 



