BV HENRY DEANE AND J. II. MAIDEN, 795 



Sieberiana. If not a distinct species it is undoubtedly a well- 

 marked variety which extends unchanged over a considerable 

 area, and for which we propose the provisional name of var. 

 O.vlei/ensis 



The possession of absolutely complete material may prove that 

 it is worthy of specific rank. 



It is the tree referred to in the following passage in Maidens 

 Dorrigo Report in Agric. Gaz., Oct., 1894, p. 612 : — - 



"Less than 100 yards inside the brush of the Glenfernie Forest 

 Reserve, and at least as far as Blick's River to Bald Hills, is a 

 large tree, with brown, peppermint-like bark, which seems to be 

 intermediate in character between E. hremastoma and E. Sieberiana. 

 The tree would appear to be very widely distributed in New 

 England, for specimens collected by Mr. Henry Deane, at the 

 Bluff River, near Tenterfield, cannot, in my opinion, be separated 

 from my specimens. Of course the typical E. Sieberiana, with 

 bark of the appearance of an ironbark, free-grained timber, and 

 conoid fruits (with pedicels hardly separable from the fruits), is 

 at once distinguishable from the smooth-barked hcemastotna, usually 

 of crooked growth, inferior timber, and with the fruit having a 

 tendency to a hemisphere, leaving a distinct pedicel. But my 

 specimens seem to be intermediate in character. The peppermint- 

 like {E. piperita) bark is very different in appearance to that of 

 the true E. Sieberiana, and while the veins of the leaves of E. 

 Sieberiana are usually less conspicuous than those of E. hmmastoma, 

 I cannot satisfy myself to bring the leaves of my plants into one 

 species rather than into the other. To sum up, having considered 

 the fruits, leaves, barks, and timbers, I can only observe that my 

 particular New England specimens (called by the few local resi- 

 dents ' messmate ' and ' peppermint ' indiscriminately), must for 

 the present be looked upon as a connecting-link between E. 

 hremastoma and E. Sieberiana." 



It is the tree referred to under E. Sieberiana in the Proc. of 

 this Soc. for 1898, p. 27. 



Similarities to E. Sieberiana. — Has every appearance as regards 

 buds, flowers and fruits, of a slender form of E. Sieberiana. 



