BY J. H. MAIDEN. 515 



Let US turn to a reputed variety of E. sideroxylon A. Cunn., 

 viz., var. paUeTis Benth. "Leaves not .so coriaceous and whitish." 

 New England, C. Stuart (B Fl. iii. 210). I have not seen the 

 type specimens, but have travelled over a good deal of C. Stuart's 

 country (northern New England, Tenterfield to Drake, <fcc.), and 

 have no doubt, in my own mind, that E. Caleyi is the plant 

 referred to. At the same time I cannot state absolutely that it 

 is a synonym without the type. The tree is often as glaucous as 

 it can be, and young lanceolate leaves at the ends of branches 

 are often less coriaceous than the maturer leaves down the 

 branches. 



On my showing Mr. R. T. Baker specimens, and informing 

 him that I deemed this tree to be new, he very kindly sent me 

 specimens collected by him at Murrumbo Plains, Goulburn River, 

 north of Rylstone, and informed me that the tree was referred 

 by him and Mr. Smith in their ' Research on the Eucalypts ' to 

 E. ifideroxylon A. Cunn. var. pallens. It will be observed that 

 the authors state that the " oil has little resemblance to that 

 obtained from E. sideroxylon." 



(2) E. affiiiis Deane k Maiden. E. Caleyi resembles this 

 species in general characters, and even in fruits, but the timbers 

 sharply .separate them, that of E. affinis being pale. 



(.3) E. siderojMoia Benth. var. glauca Deane k Maiden. 

 E. Caleyi certainly presents some resemblance to this variety. 

 Both forms are glaucous, and the juvenile foliage of both forms 

 has much in common, but the opercula of the var. of E. sider- 

 ophloia are not constricted, while its valves are not only not sunk, 

 but they are exserted. 



(4) E. paniculata Sm. E. Caleyi was by Mueller and others 

 sometimes labelled E. paniculata with bud and flower specimens 

 alone available. The inflorescence often, indeed, takes on a 

 paniculate character, and the fruit, when unripe and the rim not 

 defined, is certainly reminiscent of that of E. paniculata, but 

 the leaves, ripe fruits and timber sharply distinguish the species. 



