754 MISCELLANEOUS NOTES ON EUCALYPTUS, L, 



Mature leaves. — Thin; though usually narrow, up to 14 lines 

 broad, often from 4 to 7 inches long. Although the leaves of 

 this form are very thin, specimens from Bateman's Bay to 

 Wagonga are especially thin. These specimens also have unusually 

 narrow leaves. 



Fruits. — Large in number (commonly 20 or more) ; Mueller 

 counted as many as 43 in the umbel (see ' Eucalyptographia ' 

 under E. aYnygdalina). I have often counted them with 40 in 

 an umbel, borne on rather long, often filiform pedicels. They 

 have a very regular umbellate appearance. Mostly pale-coloured 

 when dry. Very uniform in size, 2 to 2i lines (barely) in diame- 

 ter and pilular or nearly pear-shaped. Sometimes they tend to 

 close at the orifice. The rim varies in width. In some specimens 

 it is comparatively broad, well-defined and reddish. 



Timber. — White, fissile, rather tough when freshly cut, but 

 afterwards of inferior strength. It is easily worked, but not 

 durable on exposure. 



4. E. AMYGDALiXA, LabilL, var. nitida, Benth. 



In 1901* Mr. Deane and I described under the name of E. 

 hcemastoma, Sm., var. montana, a shrubby plant, only two or three 

 feet high, from Mt. A^ictoria, N.S.W., collected by myself. The 

 bark of so small a shrub was no guide, and the blood-red rims 

 decided us to place it with E. hcemastoma, a pardonable error, as 

 it obviously strongly resembles that species. 



Since then, however, I have obtained typical amygdalina, var. 

 nitida^ and I find that these specimens precisely match Gunn's 

 No. 808, e.g., Currie's River, Tasmania. The pale brown fruits 

 with the dark red-brown rims arrest attention. The only point 

 in which I can distinguish the Mt. Victoria specimens from those 

 of Currie's River consists in the more obvious oil-glands of those 

 from Mt. Victoria; but this may be in a measure owing to the 

 age (over 60 years) of the Tasmanian specimens. The similarity 

 of the specimens is remarkable when it is borne in mind that the 



* These Proceedings, 1901, p. 125. 



