194: NOTES ON THE EUCALYPTS OF THE BLUE MOUNTAINS, 



Buds. — Clavate. Mt. Wilson specimens and otliers from the 

 higher parts of the Blue Mountains show the buds rugose, after 

 the fashion, though not so well marked, as some from Victoria. 



Flowers. — Anthers reniform. 



Ft'idts packed in a dense head; often white-dotted. In the 

 ripe fruits valves well exserted, rather more so than in E. macror- 

 rhyncha. Indeed the Rev. Dr. Woolls labelled the Mt. Wilson 

 specimens E. macrorrhyncha. In that species, however, the rim 

 remains domed in mature fruits, while in this Blue Mountain 

 form of E. capitellata the rim is turned outwards till it becomes 

 almost a continuation of the calyx. 



Hah. — We have collected this form from Woodford to Cox's 

 River (Bowenfels) and theJenolan Caves, and also at Mt. Wilson. 

 Further localities to connect with the coast will be looked for. 



We have the same form on the Clyde Mountain (Southern 

 mountain ranges), No. 31, W. Biiuerlen, July, 1890, precisely 

 matching the Blue Mountains form. 



In the Outer Domain, Sydney, we have an interesting tree 

 w^hich is unplanted, and which attracts attention from the fact 

 that it is more " bark -bound " than the majority of E. capitellata 

 trees around Port Jackson; that is to say, the bark, though 

 fibrous in texture, is thinner, denser, and more closely appressed 

 to the trunk. 



The juvenile leaves and the intermediate leaves depart from 

 the type, being narrower, more lanceolate, and more closely 

 resemble those of the Blue IMountain form referred to at p. 193. 



Incidentally it may be remarked that the orbicular suckers of 

 E. capitellata from type-localities (Port Jackson) would appear 

 to be a product of an exposed situation. All the forms of E. 

 capitellata appear to have more or less lanceolate juvenile leaves 

 in their earliest stage. 



Seedlings raised from typical capitellata trees early take on a 

 lanceolar shape with entire margins. This is succeeded by an 

 undulate margin, with stellate hairs on the leaves and on the 

 irregularly toothed margin and petiole and rhachis. 



