476 ON FOUR NEW SPECIES OF EUCALYPTUS, 



of a silvery appearance. The young branchlets and seedling stems 

 angular. 



Mature leaves commonly oblique and falcate, broadly lanceolate. 

 I have them up to 9 inches in length and nearl}^ 2 inches in 

 greatest width; they are rather thick in texture. Colour equally 

 green on both sides, dull or shiny, blue-green or a bright sap- 

 green. Veins strongly marked, spreading from the base, the 

 intramarginal vein at a considerable distance from the edge, often 

 looped (brachydodromous). " Leaves hang straight down " 

 (Cambage). 



Buds usually clavate and sometimes with pointed opercula. 



Flowers. — Anthers uniform. 



Fruits usually pyriform in shape, often nearly conical, rather 

 more than \ inch in diameter. The valves often well sunk below 

 the rim, but the points of the valves occasionally protruding. 

 Sometimes the rim is slightly domed and the valves rather more 

 exserted. The rim broad, smooth, well-defined and usually red 

 in colour. 



A medium-sized tree with grey tough bark to the tips of the 

 branches, said bark being of that subfibrous character well known 

 in Australia as "peppermint," very like that of E. piperita, but 

 very different from that of F. Sieheriana. 



Timber. — Wood pale-coloured, with kino rings, remarkably 

 like that of the common Sydney Peppermint {E. piijerita, Sm.). 

 "Soft and ringy, not nearly so good as Mountain Ash, E. Sieh- 

 eriana " (Boorman). 



Range. — In coastal and coast-range districts of New South 

 Wales, extending, as far as is known at present, from the Ulla- 

 dulla District in the south across the country to near Goulburn, 

 thence via Burragorang to the Blue Mountains (Springwood), 

 and the Penang Mountain near Gosford. 



Mr. Deane and I first collected it near Springwood in 1888. I 

 have received it during the last four or five 3'^ears from the fol- 

 lowing localities — Pigeon House Mountain, near Milton; grows 

 to within 100 feet of the top, on sandy, rather barren soil; also 

 sandy ground at Burrill, Ulladulla (R. H. Cambage); Wingello 



