710 ON THE EUCALYPTS OF NEW SOUTH WALES, 



Anthers. — The stamens are folded in the bud and the anthers 

 are all fertile and renantherous. 



Fruits. — Globose-truncate, smooth, often glossy, up to 5 lines 

 broad and 6 deep, but varying in size, contracted at the orifice, 

 i.e., slightly urceolate, the I'im narrow or thin, the capsule sunk, 

 and the valves not protruding. Usually the valves are very 

 much sunk, but occasionally {e.g., at Wentworth Falls) the tips of 

 the valves are flush with the top of the capsule. 



Apparently the capsule is always sunk in Blue Mountain 

 specimens, the edge of the capsule (rim) being thin and gradually 

 slojDing into the orifice. 



A connecting link with the series of specimens (ohtusijlora, kc.,. 

 with a horizontal rim) is furnished by specimens from Sugar Loaf 

 Mountain, Braidwood, where on the same plant are fruits of 

 typical stricta with thin, sunk rim, and those with a broadish, 

 scarcely sunk, horizontal rim. 



The afiinities in fruit are to some forms of E. obliqna, but the 

 rim of the latter is thicker (see Eucalyptographia ). The closest 

 aflinity is, however, with E. obtusijlora, as pointed out at page 715. 



Range. — The Blue Mountains and the Braidwood and Moruya 

 districts. The intermediate localities are not defined with certainty. 

 It cannot be stated that the true E. stricta is found in the Port 

 Jackson district, as recorded by Bentham. 



E. STRICTA var. rigida. 



General remarks. — Forms a scrubby growth. 



This plant is undoubtedly a small form of E. stricta, but as it 

 is uniform in appearance it would be desirable to name it as a 

 variety as a matter of convenience. Sieber's MS. name of rigida, 

 under which it appears to have been distributed in the first 

 instance, may be adopted. 



Vernacular names. — Called " Boree " at Berrima, though the 

 use of the name (usually given to an Acacia) should not be 

 encouraged. 



Seedling leaves. — Not seen. 



