628 SPECIES OP EUCALTPTS FIEST KXOWX IX EUEOPE, 



illustration of tlie name hotryoiiles, ^''flores coarctl et fasciculo 

 taccarum liaud absimilesy In the Fragmenta Yol, p. 49, Baron 

 Mueller recognised this tree as the Bastard Mahogany, and m 

 fourth Decade of his EucaJyptograpJiia, it is correctly figured and 

 described. It appears that, whilst Sir J. Smith gave this tree 

 the specific name hotryoicleSj Abbe Cavanilles suggested that of 

 pJatypodos in allusion to the flatness of the flower-stalks. In the 

 original figure, the leaves are represented much narrower than 

 they appear in the Baron's figure, but there can be no doubt but 

 that Smith's E. hot rgo ides is one of the Mahoganies of the early 

 settlers, and that it is perfectly distinct from the Blue Grum. 

 According to the Baron, the species ranges from Lake Fyers and 

 the lower Snowy Kiver through Gripps Land to the Southern 

 portion of New South Wales ; preserving everywhere its 

 character as a tree found not far from the coast and occurring 

 in moist sandy places. 



8. E. licemastoma (Sm. Oct. Soc, Linn., Lond., 3, p. 2 86). This 

 tree, which in consequence of similar flowers and fruit, has been 

 associated with E. Sieheriana or the Mountain Ash of the interior 

 is properly the "White Grum " growing near Sydney and its 

 variety micrantlia occurring from Port Jackson to the Blue 

 Mountains, The description, taken in consideration with tlie 

 smooth harh, cannot well be mistaken : " E. operculo hcsmispherico 

 depresso mucronulato, umiellis lateralihus terminatihusque, pedun- 

 culis compressis, ramidis angulatis, fructu suhglohosoy And then 

 is added the observation, " Folia coriacea lanceolata in acumen 

 lineare lonrjum producta. Flores umhellati non capitati, operculum 

 depressum mucronatum. Fructus glohosus apice dehiscens, orificio 

 margine lato rubra cincto.''^ The specific name taken from the 

 broad red rim of the fruit, is certainly a guide to the determin- 

 ation of the species so far as the neighbourhood of Sydney is 

 concerned, but since it has been found that a similar peculiarity 

 attaches itself to the fruit of other species, this designation is 

 not so appropriate as it was in the early days of the Colony. It 



