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E. pilularis, Sm. (Blackbutt), occui's near the summit of Mt. 

 Seaview and adjacent heights. The fruits are perhaps a little 

 smaller than is usual in the species. 



E. Sieheriana, F.v.M. — There is a tree, which is sometimes 

 called " Messmate," which occurs near the summit of Mt. Seaview 

 and also on Mt. Maiden, Seaview Range. It is similar to that 

 collected by me in the Glenfernie Forest Reserve* and other 

 places along the Grafton- Armidale road. Mr. Henry Deane has 

 collected it at the Bluff River, Tenterfield. The bark is persistent 

 on the trunk; the branches and branchlets are smooth. At 

 present this tree had better be classified with E. Sieheriana, 

 but in the shape and rim of the fruit, and in some other I'espects, 

 the tree shows affinities to E. Juemastoma. It may turn out to 

 be a new species, and is under examination. 



E. eugenioides, Sieb., and E. capitellata, Sm. — The Stringy- 

 barks on the Seaview Range are interestins;. 



E. eugenioides occurs nearly on the summit of Mt. Seaview. 

 It has globular heads of about y^- inch in diameter, composed 

 visually of 9 or 10 small pale-coloured fruits about ^^ inch in 

 diameter. 



The Stringybark on the range ascending to New England had 

 fruits much of the same character except that both heads and 

 individual fruits are a little larger, and since they contain one or 

 two more fruits to the head, the individual fruits are more com- 

 pressed, after the fashion of E. capitellaia. 



Usually the Stringybarks have not the fruits in compact 

 globular heads; those mostly found on the table-land, and also 

 from the Upper Hastings, near Mt. Seaview, are —■ or -^ inch in 

 diameter, six or seven in a loose head, and each fruit with a 

 distinct pedicel. 



Other specimens from Yarrowitch, New England, are small 

 and few in the head.. 



See Agricultural Gazette of N.S.W. September, 1S94, p. 612. 



