204 BOTANY OF THE INTERIOR OF NEW SOUTH WALES, 



specimens recently collected in South Australia, and kindly 

 identified for me by Mr. J. G. Luehmann, F.L.S., Curator of the 

 National Herbarium, Melbourne. In a previous paper (Part i.) 

 it was mentioned that only four species of mallee were noticed 

 between Bourke and Condobolin, but the identification of E. 

 2incinata makes five. The species probably extends to the south- 

 west from the point where it has been found. It has not previously 

 been recorded so far east in New South Wales, and appears to 

 have been known to exist chiefly in the south-west corner of the 

 State. 



Owing to their narrow leaves, E. uncinata and E. viridis 

 might easily be confused in the distance, but a comparison of 

 fruits or flowers enables the observer to readily separate them. 

 The fruits of the former are somewhat like those of E. oleosa on 

 a small scale, and both have the peculiarity of holding part of 

 the style in position long after the rest of the flower has fallen. 

 The top of the style is eventually broken ofi'; the split base still- 

 remaining is then seen as three or four protruding valves. But 

 these two species would rarely be confused when seen growing, 

 owing to the great difference in the size of their leaves, those of 

 E. oleosa beinsf larsje beside those of E. micinaia. In most 

 Eucalypts the stamens stand out fairly straight when the flow^er 

 is fully developed, but a characteristic of E. icncinata is that the 

 filaments are slender, and seem too weak to straighten out, the 

 alternative being that to a great extent they retain the angles 

 which are formed before the anthers are released from the calyx. 



The Wirlong Copper Mine is situated among some hills made 

 up of slate and crushed porphyry, and growing around are 

 Casuarina quadrivalvis, Helichrysvm Cun^iinghamii^ Phehaliu^n 

 glandulosuin, Eremophila latifolia, Eriostemon diformis, Cryp- 

 tandra amara, Sm., Tecoma australis with narrow leaves, Beyeria 

 viscosa, Eucalyptus sideroxylon, E. viridis, E. Morris'ii, and E. 

 tereticornis, var. dealhata. This last-named tree grows here some- 

 times in mallee form, spreading out from one root into 8 or 10 

 thin stems. 



