778 MISCELLANEOUS NOTES ON EUCALYPTUS, L, 



Fruits smooth, usually barely -^^ inch in diameter, subcylindri- 

 cal, rim rather prominent, domed, the valves (indifferently 3 or 4) 

 moderately well exserted. 



Bark very smooth and white. 



Timber pale-coloured, fissile, probably of no special merit. 



Hah. — On the tops of the highest hills (circa 4000 ft.) in 

 fissures of granite rocks around Wallangarra, occurring on both 

 sides of the New South Wales-Queensland border (J. L. Boorman; 

 July, 1904). 



Affiyiities — This tree belongs to the viminalis-Gunnii series. 

 From E. Gunnii and its forms it is separated by the broadish 

 juvenile leaves of the latter. At the same time some specimens 

 of var. maculosa of the latter have juvenile leaves intermediate 

 in width. From E. viininalis it is separated by its uniforml}'- 

 multi-flowered character, the absence of ribbons on the bark, the 

 narrower juvenile foliage and other characters. 



Its nearest affinity appears to be E. Smithii, R. T. Baker, from 

 which it appears to be sharply separated by the markedly smooth 

 bark of the new species. I separate the two trees mainly on that 

 ground, the bark of E. Smithii being almost an Ironbark. The 

 timber also of E. Smithii appears to be darker. 



I add to the species of the Gunnii-viminalis group with diffi- 

 dence, but I believe that the naming of this form will be of 

 practical convenience because of its narrow leaves, multiform 

 flowers and smooth bark. Many Queensland and Northern New 

 South Wales trees far away from the viminalis and Gunnii type 

 localities (which are Tasraanian), and that of E. Smithii (which 

 is Southern New South Wales) belong to a group which, for pur- 

 poses of nomenclature, may, in my opinion, be usefully typified 

 in the present species. It, however, belongs to a series which is 

 €apable of so much variation that it does not appear to be a strong 

 species. 



In its narrow pendulous juvenile leaves and smooth bark it 

 reminds one of E. Seeana^ Maiden. The two species differ, how- 

 ever, in almost every other respect. 



