708 ox THE EUCALYPTS OF NEW SOUTH WALES, 



spherical, rarely tapered below, have thin pedicels, and are usually 

 numerous. Some from Queanbeyan are 3% of an inch in 

 diameter. Those fi'om Grenfell, Bargo, kc, have flat tops and 

 sharp rims. Some from the Mudgee district and south coast 

 afford instances of slight doming of the fruits. Occasionally they 

 are depressed hemispherical, — almost tazza-shaped. They are 

 often pale coloured and with markedly red mouths. 



We have fruits from Mt. Wilson which, though quite small, 

 taper like those of normal luemastoma, and are in some respects 

 connecting links. 



Range. — This is much the most widely distributed form of the 

 species. Besides New South Wales it is also found in Queensland, 

 and in our own colony it e.xtends from north to south, and from 

 the coast across the tableland to at least as far west as Tumut, 

 Bumberrv and Mudgee. 



Size. — Usually 30 or 40 feet in height, with a trunk diameter 

 of 2 or 3 feet. 



E. STRiCTA, Sieb. 



The original description of E. stricta (Sieb. Cnr. post. 195) is as 

 follows: — E. operculo submutico pedunculis lateralibus 2-floris 

 foliis linearibus acutis coriaceis glabris subpunctatis. 



Bentham (Flora Australiensis) places the species in the Poran- 

 therte, and gives the following notes concerning it : — 



" Umbels several-flowered, often solitar}' in the axils, the upper 

 ones in terminal corymbose panicles. Operculum usually conical, 

 about as long as the calyx tulje. Pedicels short. Leaves linear, 

 thick, the oblique veins seldom visible. Umbels all axillary." 



He also places it in his allied series Micrantherse, but as pointed 

 out by Mueller ( Eucalyptographia), in making this classification, 

 he probably only had very young flowers for dissection. 



E. stricta is usually considered to be the mountain form of a 

 species, of which E. ubtusiflora is the coast form. 



In the Ecualjiptngraphia, it is worthy of note that under E. 

 stricta Mueller includes E. virgata and E. Luehrnanniana, but not 

 E. ohtusiflora. 



