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resinifera. Mr. Bentliam, with his usual sagacity, noticed the 

 resemblance which dried specimens o£ E. sideropJiloia and E. 

 resinifera bear to each other, and had he been aware of the fact 

 which I have mentioned, it is probable that the change of names 

 might have been obviated. Near the coast, there is a variety of 

 the Eed Mahogany with much larger flowers and fruit than those 

 of the ordinary type, but as these trees agree in the cortical and 

 artificial systems of grouping, as well as in the texture of the 

 wood, it is scarcely necessary to treat of them as distinct species, 

 although when viewed simply from dried specimens, one might 

 be disposed to do so. 



5. E. capitella, (Sm. &c., and White, itin. 226 c. icone, fig. a.) 

 is doubtless the somewhat stunted form of Stringy Bark which is 

 found about the harbour of Port Jackson, though the same tree 

 occurs in a larger form " in the shore regions or in mountain 

 elevations " from the southern part of New South Whales to 

 Grippsland. AVhether this tree is really distinct from E. eur/enioides 

 or whether they may not be varieties of one species, differing in 

 proportion to their proximity to the coast, seems tc be scarcely 

 determined. Smith's description answers very well to the tree 

 found even now about the North Shore and Manly : " E. operculo 

 conico ohtusiusculo calycegue anc/uJoso suhancipiti, capitulisJateral- 

 ihmsoJitariis,fructu(/1ohoso,foUisovato-lcniceolatisri^idisobIiqius.'^ 

 This form of Stringy Bark, as found near Sydney, has capitate 

 flowers and hence the name capitella ; but there are, further 

 inland, intermediate forms which seem to connect it with E. 

 eugenioides, whilst, as Baron Mueller shows, there is a marked 

 resemblance in the seedlings, both of them being somewhat 

 scabrous from crowded fascicles of short hairs. This sj^ecies 

 appears in the older works under the names of E. scahra, (Dum. 

 Cours.), E, eugeiiioides, (Sieb.) a,nd E. penicellata, (Ilort.) ; and, 

 in the second volume of Baron Mueller's Frac/menta (Vol. 2, p. 

 64?), it is described as E. acervida, (DC), though Don describes 



