690 NOTES ON THE NATIVE FLORA OF NEW SOUTH WALES, I., 



E, globulus may be found a few miles above the road near 

 Back Creek, and E. vimiiialis, growing as large white gum trees, 

 occurs on the basalt tableland all around Laurel Hill. The latter 

 species is confused locally with E. rubida, and except for the 

 round " sucker " leaves of E, rubida and its patches of reddish 

 bark often noticeable towards the end of summer, the general 

 difference between these two trees is not pronounced. 



E. deleyatensis frequents the heads of most of the gullies 

 throughout the Bago forest reserve, extending thence across 

 towards Kiandra, and occurring, among other places, on the 

 Delegate Mountain, near the little township of Delegate, as its 

 botanical name suggests. It is the most valuable timber tree in 

 the neighbourhood of Bago, being cut in sawmills for transport 

 to adjacent towns. The trees are large, being commonly 150 feet 

 high with a diameter of 5 feet. The bark for half-way up the 

 barrel is fibrous, approaching a stringybark, but the upper part 

 of the trunk and the branches are smooth, except for the long 

 ribbons or streamers of bark which are often suspended there- 

 from. The leaves are large and fairly coarse, especially those on 

 seedling plants about 10 or 12 feet high, where measurements up 

 to 8 or 9 inches long by half that in width are common. A 

 favourite spot for the germinating of the seeds is where the earth 

 has been disturbed by the burrowing of the Wombats [Phasco- 

 lomys sp.), which are common in this locality. Seedling plants 

 of this species appear to pass out of the opposite-leaved stage at 

 a very early period, more so than is the case in the majority of 

 species of this genus. The "sucker" leaves appeared to be less 

 frequent on Mountain Ash than on any other in the locality, 

 and those noticed had no marked characteristics, and were much 

 smaller than the leaves of seedling plants a few feet high. The 

 fruits somewhat resemble those of E. Sieberiana, F.v.M., the 

 Mountain Ash of the coastal area, but appear to be regularly 

 more constricted at the rim. The venation of the leaves of 

 these two trees also shows considerable similarity, and this, 

 together with the resemblance of the fruits, suggested the thought 

 that E. deleyatensis might only be a variety of E. Sieberiana. 



