460 ON THE EUCALYPTS OF NEW SOUTH WALES, 



Contemplation of these specimens (for the most part collected 

 by ourselves) and inspection of E. regnans as it grows in Victoria 

 incline us to the opinion that our E. fastigata may not be 

 specifically different from E. regnans. Mueller's description of 

 his species would require to be modified in the specially important 

 matter (in the case of a Eucalypt) of the bark, while the size of 

 the fruit and other minor matters in which the published descrip- 

 tions of E. regnans and E. fastigata do not agree, may not present 

 insuperable obstacles to the fusion of the two species. 



An excellent account of E. regnans is given by Howitt in his 

 Encalypts of Gippsland (^Trans. Roy. Sac. Vic. ii. 87), and he 

 observes that it goes under the name of " Blackbutt " in 

 Victoria. 



E. AMYGDALiNA, Labill., var. nitida, Benth. {B.Fl. iii. 203). 



We have specimens from Jenolan Caves, X.S.W., which closely 

 resemble Hooker's E. nitiJa as figured in Fl. I'as., and may be 

 arranged under Bentham's variety. 



E. DIVES, Schauer. 



(Syn. E. amygdalina, Labill., var. Jatifolia, Deane ifc Maiden, 

 Proc. Linn. Soc, (2) x. 609, with figure.) 



See also WooUs' Flora of Australia, p. 241, except as regards 

 height of this species, which, while it flowers as a shrub, attains 

 the size of a medium sized tree. 



Common on the southern and western spurs of the Great 

 Dividing Range. 



E. Muelleriana, Howitt. 



Trans. Roy. Soc. Vict. Vol. ii. 89 (with figs. 11 and 12), is, in 

 our opinion, identical with E. dextropinea, R. T. Baker, Proc. 

 Linn. Soc. N.S.W. 1898, 417. 



In the Goulbui'n district it is known as " White Mahogany," 

 but it is not to be confused with E. acihenoides. Its branches are 

 rough to the top, affording a I'ead}'' distinction between it and E. 

 2nlularis. The bark is very yellow when fi^eshly cut, also the 



