790 EUCALYPTS OF NEW SOUTH WALES, 



We do not doubt that a good deal of country reported to be 

 Stringybark is really White Mahogany. Both species like the 

 same situations — well drained, sterile hills and mountain sides. 



Timber. — Pale-coloured, dense, and of high specific gravity. 



Slicker leaves. — The first leaves are opposite and not oblique, 

 but symmetrical, broadly ovate, lanceolate. As the plant grows 

 older they become alternate and are acuminate. The leaves of 

 the coast form are coarse and large^ the dimensions of some before 

 us being 2^ to 3 inches broad and 6 inches long. 



In the mature leaves there is a tendency to crenulate mai'gins, 

 and some show a considerable resemblance in outline to that of a 

 peach. The leaves are less oblique than in most Eucalypts, and 

 the veins, unlike most BeiKintherce, are parallel, making a con- 

 siderable angle with the midrib, and are thus vei'y distinct from 

 those of E. eugenioides. The twigs are angular. 



Buds. — When in a young state, from coast districts, often 

 angular, like E. capiteUafa. The species is often a very profuse 

 flowerer. 



Pedicels flattened. 



Fruit. — («) The ordinary form in coastal districts at some 

 distance and elevation from the sea. It is not altogether unlike 

 that of E. eugenioides, but is flat at the top with sometimes a 

 thin rim. 



(6) Fruits larger and coarser, hemispherical, truncate and with 

 a broad rim. The rim is well defined and usually dark-coloured. 



Bentham (B.Fl. iii. 208) doubtfully made this a variety (? var. 

 acmenoides) of E. 2)ilularis, stating that it sometimes seems to pass 

 into the typical E. jnhdaris. Mueller (Eiicali/ptographia) rightly 

 restores the specific rank of the White Mahogany, although 

 previousl}'' (under E. pilula7'is) he had expressed some doubt as 

 to whether E. acmenoides and E. pihdaris are really distinct. 

 But the fruits, the bark, and the character of the timber separate 

 the species very readily. Mueller states that the small capsules 

 figured on the left hand of the E. pdulaj-is plate in the Eucalypto- 

 grajyhia are E. acmenoides. It may be so, but the figure is poor. 



