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fruits tubular, valves decidedly valvate, arranged (mostly) in 

 threes; suckers glaucous, stems round, slightly angled. Used 

 largely for sleepers " (Collector's note). 



E. RESINIFERA, Sni. 



A. — Normal or small-fruited form. 



We have this form as far south as Conjola, near Milton. It is 

 not rare in the Sydney district, e.g., Hunter's Hill, Eastwood, 

 Hornsby, Blaxland, Homebush, Cabramatta, Bankstown, Cook's 

 River. It was much more plentiful in this district at one time, 

 but it has been largely cut out, since it yields one of the most 

 valuable of our timbers. Westerly it is less developed; it occurs 

 at least as far as Springwood, Blue Mountains (form with sessile 

 flowers). It attains its best development in the North Coast 

 district, and it w> more or less plentiful from Port Jackson to 

 Queensland. 



From the Bargo River, Picton district, we have specimens with 

 very narrow leaves. From Cabramatta, and thence northerly to 

 Bulladeelah, and thence to the Tweed, we have a rather common 

 form with a very long subulate operculum, longer even than that 

 of E. tereticoriiis, except in its extrejne forms. This form we 

 observe at Maroochie in Queensland. 



From near Thirlmere we have a form with fruits of medium 

 size, hemispherical, and the valves but little exserted. We have 

 a smaller- fruited form, hemispherical, and the valves even less 

 exserted, from Auburn and Oatley, both in the Sydney district, 

 south of Port Jackson. 



Specimens from Cabramatta show the broadening rim as laroe 

 in comparison, considering the size of the fruit, as it is in some of 

 the grandiflora forms. All these differences amount to but little, 

 for the small-fruited form of E. resitdfeva is really very constant. 



B. — Large- fruited forms. 



Much more variation is undoubtedly presented by E. resinifera 

 in its large-fruited than in its small-fruited forms. 



