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Manna Gum), which have the flowers in more than three (as well 

 as in threes). 



E. viminalis has been sent to us with red flowers from Mt. 

 Wilson by Mr. Jesse Gregson. 



Fruits. — " Fruit-rim not very convex and often flat. In the 

 New South Wales specimens the flowers and fruits are usually 

 small" (B.Fl.). The size and shape of the fruits vary a good 

 deal. We have some quite small ones from Tasmania, and the 

 largest ones we have ever seen are from Northern New South 

 Wales. From that part of the colony we have also obtained 

 some smaller than the average, and some with valves protruding 

 further than we have seen from any other locality. Sometimes 

 they are nearly hemispherical; others are longer in proportion to 

 the width. 



Bark. — . . " With a rough persistent bark, at least on the 

 trunk and main branches, that of the smaller l^ranches often 

 smooth and deciduous, and sometimes the whole described as 

 deciduous." . . . " In New South Wales specimens the bark 

 sometimes said to be quite smooth, probably when the rough l)ark 

 has been shed" (B.Fl. iii., 239, 240). 



" Bark much persistent on the stem and sometimes also on the 

 main branches, outside rather dark coloured, wrinkled and rough, 

 comparatively solid in texture, though somewhat fragile; through 

 secession leaving the younger bark outside smooth and whitish- 

 grey or almost white, giving off" externally, when rubbed, a 

 flour-like bloom, as does also the bark of E. redunca'' (Eucalypto- 

 graphia). 



" Bark rather solid, extensively deciduous" (Mueller, Key Vic- 

 torian Plants). 



" E. vihiinalis at Wando Vale locally called Blackbutt; bark 

 very rugged and persistent up to the small branches" (A. W. 

 Howitt). 



Some specimens from the Grampians, Victoria, bear, in 

 Mueller's handwriting, the words " Rough hark, not fibrous bark." 

 The last two specimens are multiflowered, and are identical 

 with Mr. Baker's E. Stnithii. 



