752 MISCELLANEOUS NOTES ON EUCALYPTUS, I., 



Sieber or De Candolle to be sufficiently different from the New 

 South Wales form. Sieber's type probably came from the higher 

 parts of the Blue Mountains (I have matched it completely there- 

 from). It is also common in some northern localities. The 

 specimens distributed by Sieber have fruits not dead ripe; when 

 they are quite ripe the tips of the valves are slightly exserted. 



Much confusion has gathered round E. radiata, Sieb. 



Hooker (Fl. Tas.) attributed four forms to E. radiata, which I 

 will later on show to belong partly to E. Risdoni, Hook. f. var. 

 elata^ Benth.; and partly to E. amygdalina, Labill. 



Then Bentham (B.Fl. iii. 203) described a var. radiata of E. 

 amygdalina, which is a combination of (a) E. radiata, Sieb., of 

 (b) Hooker's Tasmanian supposed forms of radiata, and of (c) the 

 "White Gum "of Bent's Basin and the Nepean River, N.S.W. 

 (Woolls). The " White Gum " of Rent's Basin I will proceed to 

 deal with. 



2. E. AMYGDALINA, Labill., var. numerosa, var.nov. (vel E. 

 numerosa, sp.nov.), in allusion to the very large number of flowers 

 in the umbel. 



Syn. : E. a7nygdaltna, Labill., var. radiata, Benth. 



In the ' Catalogue of Indigenous Woods of the Southern Dis- 

 tricts of N.S.W.,' prepared by the late Sir Willian Macarthur 

 for the Paris Exhibition, 1855, we have under No. 109 " Eucalyp- 

 tus radiata (?)" " Kayer-ro," " Biver Gum of Camden." *'A 

 small quick-growing species, very elegant when in blossom; is 

 found only on the immediate sandy banks of rivers; the wood of 

 no value; the inner bark used for tying grafts and other similar 

 common purposes. Height 30 to 50 feet, diameter 12 to 18 

 inches." The name was supplied by Kew, and it will be observed 

 that it was doubtfully referred to E. radiata. 



In the ' Flora Australiensis,' as I have already pointed out, 

 Bentham included it with some other trees under his var. radiata 

 of aimygdalina. 



It is the tree included by Mueller under E. amygdalina in 

 * Eucalyptographia,' where, quoting Howitt, he speaks of the 



