784 EUCALYPTS OP NEW SOUTH WALES, 



Jackson, pi'ecisely match some labelled in Baron von Mueller's 

 handwriting " Stringybark, E. jnj^erita, Twofold Bay." The 

 fruits figured in the Uucalyptographia are not \'ery dissimilar to 

 them. They have short pedicels and are frequently sessile. We 

 cannot ascertain that this form has been named as a variety. 

 The tree appears to us to partake of some of the characters of 

 both U. piperita and E. eugenioides. The Port Jackson-Twofold 

 Bay specimens may for convenience be referred to as A. The 

 texture of the leaves of A and the prominence of the veins are 

 intermediate between E. piperita and E. eugenioides, as is also 

 the amount of essential oil so characteristic of E. jiiperita. The 

 fruits of A', piperita have a very thin rim, in A it is a little 

 broader, in E. eugenioides it is well defined. The size of the 

 orifice of A is intermediate between the two species named. The 

 shape of the fruits of A is less ovoid than those of E. jnperita, and 

 less hemispherical than those of E. eugenioides. 



Since the above was written Mr. J. G. Luehmann, Curator of 

 the Melbourne National Herbarium, has favoured us with some 

 specimens collected by Mr. A. W. Howitt in GipjDsland. Follow- 

 ing is Mr. Howitt's note on the specimens: — "A Stringybark 

 growing on the clayey flats (post-pliocene ?) at Toongabbie near 

 the foot of the hills. Grows to a moderately large tree, say 

 100 feet. Native name Yangoura." The late Baron von Mueller 

 labelled this specimen ^'E. piperita." It undoubtedly bears the 

 closest resemblance to the Port Jackson and Twofold Bay speci- 

 mens just referred to. Some of the fruits are a little more ovoid 

 than those of the Port Jackson and Twofold Bay specimens, but 

 that appears to be because they are riper; specimens less mature 

 from the three localities cannot be separated. 



We have specimens from near Mittagong, N.S.W., bearing the 

 fruits in a dense head very similar in general apj)earance to the 

 head-flowering form of E. eugenioides figured l^y us at Fig. 5, 

 PI. LX. this Journ. 1896. We figure the head and also an 

 individual fruit, and having examined the tree and a complete set 

 of specimens, are of opinion that it belongs to E. piperita. At 

 the same time its affinity to E. eugenioides is unquestionable. 

 We have seen similar specimens from Port Jackson. 



