HY HENRY DEANE AND J. H. MAIDEN. 469 



therefore is subconical. The whole fruit is coarser in appearance 

 than is that of the normal species. 



The variety is a well marked one, although, as has been 

 indicated, the name given by Bentham is unfortunate. 



E. TERETicoRNis, Sm., var. LATIFOLIA, Bcnth. {B.Fl. iii. 242). 



(Plate xli., fig. 9.) 



*• Leaves ovate to lanceolate. Flowers with a strong cimicine 

 smell." The only locality in the Flora for this variety is Shoal- 

 water Passage, Queensland (R. Brown), but the variety, or at all 

 events one of its numerous links with the normal species, is 

 tolerably abundant in the coast and coast mountain districts of 

 the Colony, both north and south of Port Jackson. 



"Flowers with a strong cimicine smell" appears to give the clue 

 to the name " Stinking Gum " which in some parts of the Colony 

 is given to E. tereticornis (see Agric. Gazette N.S.W. 1898, 593), 

 though in the specimens collected in the Mount Seaview district 

 the leaves were not specially broad. It is, however, not likely 

 that bad odour is a character exclusively possessed by the flowers 

 of the variety. 



These broad-leaved forms are usually (though not exclusively) 

 found in swamps and flats, hence the local names "Swamp Gum," 

 " Red Swamp Gum," and here we would point out that the 

 habitat " Forest Red Gum " (E. tereticornis) as compared with 

 " River Red Gum" (E. rostrata) is only generally and not abso- 

 lutely true. This is an instance of the difliculty and even impos- 

 sibility of giving entirely satisfactory vernacular names to many 

 species of Encali/ptus. , 



We may point out that the timber of the broad-leaved forms is 

 of very inferior quality (Mr. Forest Ranger Rudder, Agric. Gazette 

 A'.S.W. 1896, p. 15, says "nearly worthless"), and this enables 

 us to understand the conflicting statements sometimes published 

 in regard to E. tereticornis timbei*, which normally is one of the 

 most valuable timbers we have. As a general rule it may be 

 stated that Eucalyptus timbers grown in moist situations are 

 deticient in dui'ability and strength. 



