788 EUCALYPTS OF NEW SOUTH WALES, 



rim. This may be taken to be the typical form which led to the 

 adoption of the specific name; it occurs mainly in the Sydney 

 district, not being found much north of Port Jackson and perhaps 

 within a hundred miles to the south. 



2. Trees with smaller fruits occur from the Hastings to the 

 Moruya Rivers, and probably along the whole range of the 

 species. 



3. In others the fruit has a very large opening, and has a 

 truncate appearance; the rim is comparatively wide. Fruits of 

 this shape occur in Northern New England, on the Hastings, Sea- 

 view Range and south to Moruya; probably also throughout the 

 whole range of the species. Bentham refers to this form when 

 at B.Fl. p. 190, giving a specific character for E. pilularis, he 

 states : " Fruit rim usually broad and flat." It is the one 

 figured in the Eucalyptographia, and the Baron remarks '• the 

 systematic name for this species is not happily chosen." Again 

 (loc. cit.) "Whereas the globular fruit of E. pilularis, as aptl}^ 

 described in the Linnean Transactions of 1797 would not apply 

 to that species as now understood, but to the E. piperita of the 

 present day." 



Smith's original description refers simply to " f ructu globoso," 

 an expression which is not appropriate to the broad-rimmed 

 forms. Smith's specimens were in all probability collected in the 

 vicinity of Port Jackson and were our form (1), to which the 

 term globular or pilular, as applied to the fruits, is especially 

 appropriate. Bentham and Mueller have been taking cognizance 

 of form (3) which is much more widely diffused than form (1). 



As to Mueller's reference to the globular shape of E. piperita, 

 we have shown (under E. piperita) that this description is not as 

 a general rule quite applicable. 



Many of our Eucalypts have large-fruited forms. E. resinifera, 

 E. punctata, E. hcemastoma will occur to many in this connection. 

 E. pilularis has one also belonging to the broad-rimmed section. 

 We figure such a form collected by Mr. F. Williams at Dapto 

 some years ago. 



