570 BOTANY OF THE INTERIOR OF NEW SOUTH WALES, 



The fruits of the Bathurst and Orange representatives of E. 

 hcemastoma are usually small and hemispherical, and, therefore, 

 more properly belong to var. micrantha, but they have the reddish 

 rim which gave rise to the botanical name of the species. In 

 shape, the fruits, with their rounded base, have often reminded 

 me of miniature wine glasses, and the similarit}"^ is increased by 

 the slenderness of the pedicels which support the fruit. In some 

 of the coast forms, where the fruits are larger, they are also more 

 conical, perhaps approaching those of E. Sieheriana, F.v.M., the 

 Mountain Ash. 



E. hcemastoma var. micrantha is generally found growing on 

 poor soil, and undoubtedly prefers a geological formation of sedi- 

 mentary origin to that of an igneous, and will thrive better on 

 the top of a Silurian slate ridge among the rocks than on the 

 surrounding flats where the soil is infinitely better. 



E. 'maculosa is another white orum tree ofenerallv found associated 

 with E. hcemastoma var. micrantha, and in habit as well as out- 

 ward appearance so much resembles it that by the casual observer 

 the two species are often confused. Both appear to flourish on 

 Silurian slate ridges, and may also be found on the Triassic 

 sandstone around Mount Victoria, but I have never seen the 

 former on the low coastal area between Wollongong and New- 

 castle where the latter is quite common. For a further comparison 

 of these two trees, see Mr, Maiden's remarks in these Proceedings 

 for 1901 (p. 582). 



E. maculosa is generally a small tree, but in rare instances I 

 have seen it with a diameter of three feet six inches, though not 

 proportionately tall. In some parts on the highlands a feature 

 of the bark is that when young it often becomes covered with a 

 white powder, but this disappears from the old bark which is 

 shed in patches, thereby suggesting the name of Spotted Gum for 

 the tree. This is the name by which the trees are known between 

 Orange and Ophir, though at AViseman's Creek they are called 

 White Cabbage Gum to distinguish them from E. hcemastoma 

 var. micra?itha, which is there called Red Cabbage Gum, the 

 wood of the former being somewhat paler than that of the latter, 



