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NOTES ON THE EUCALYPTS OF THE BLUE 

 MOUNTAINS. 



By J. H. Maiden and R. H. Cambage. 



We have botanically explored the Blue Mountains for many 

 years, but the part more particularly dealt with in this paper is 

 that near the Main Western Road and extending from Emu 

 Plains to Eskbank. Recently we walked leisurely over the 

 Blue Mountains from Penrith. We have also recently explored 

 the Cox's River on Allan Cunningham's tracks, and, for 

 the purpose of making specific observations, we spent three 

 weeks in collecting material for this paper, with Blackheath 

 for a centre. We believe that no list of the Eucalypts of 

 the Blue Mountains has hitherto been published. The summer 

 of 1904-5 will be remembered by us as the best season for 

 obtaining seedlings and sucker foliage of Eucalypts that has 

 presented itself for a number of years. This was in con- 

 sequence, in part, of the exceptionally dry spring. The 

 descriptions of the seedlings were drawn up from living specimens 

 in the field, and most of them are new. Except on the lower 

 parts of the mountains east of Spring wood, there are neither Box 

 nor Ironbark trees, as both avoid cold country; and it may be 

 mentioned that none of them occur in Tasmania. E. coriacea, 

 A. Cunn., is also a notable absentee from the Blue Mountains 

 proper.* 



We desire to invite attention to our observations on possible 

 Eucalyptus hybrids. 



* E. coriacea has been recorded from Mount Wilson by Rev. Dr. Woolls 

 (these Proceedings, 1887, p. 6), and also by Mr. A. G. Hamilton (these 

 Proceedings, 1899, p. 358), but we have not collected it. 



