BY HENRY DEANE AND J. H. MAIDEN. 715 



(1) Size and curvature of leaves. Those of E. oblusijlora are 

 small, broad in comparison with their length, shiny, thick, usually 

 blunt, and with strongly marked veins. 



(2) Shape of fruits — being more subcylindrical than those of 

 E. Luehmanniana. 



(3) In the peduncles and shape of the buds. 



Following are notes on three trees from the Spit, Middle 

 Harbour, Port Jackson. 



(a) 15 feet high. Angular twigs, pale-coloured foliage, the 

 leaves falcate and hooked, 2 to 3^ inches, or rarely 4 inches long. 

 Pointed yellowish operculum. Fruits 5-celled, over ^ inch 

 long by about yg across, and pale-coloured. They have a long, 

 broad common peduncle, and the calyx is elongated and continuous 

 with the pedicel. 



(■y) Operculum (as figured) pointed. Fruits 5-celled, flat-topped 

 or a little domed (as figured) and barely half an inch long. The 

 common peduncle elongated, and much flattened upward. 



(8) Operculum pointed. Fruits half an inch long, flat topped, 

 but sunk, angled, in addition to a certain amount of longi- 

 tudinal folding, the result of shrivelling, common to both E. 

 ohtusijlora and Liiehraanniana. Leaves vexy shiny, thick, and 

 with stx'ongly marked venation. 



These three forms are strong connecting links with E. Luehmmi- 

 niana. 



Following is a connecting link with E. stricta : — 

 (6) A small tree from Middle Harboui', Sydney, about 9 feet 

 high, with a white-grey smooth bark, the old bark leaving the 

 tree in long dark-coloured shreds. Buds clavate, and with double 

 operculum. Fruits about ^ inch long, of the shape of those of E. 

 stricta, Ijut with a thickei- rim, and less sunk, 4-celled. The 

 lea^'es linear- lanceolate, 5 inches by 5 inch. 



Bark. — Lead-coloured ; falling off in ribbons. Not greatly 

 different from E. stricta and E. ohlusiflora. 



Timber. — Like E. stricta. 



