446 BOTANY OF RYLSTONE AND GOULBUUN RIVICIl DISTIUCTS, 



Eucalyptus stellulata, Sieb. On the hills overlooking the 

 Capertee Valley. Small trees with lead-coloured bark. 



E. AMYGDALINA, Labill. Known locally as " Peppermint ; " 

 rare; only one tree seen, at Kelgoola on the Cudgegong 

 River; in bud and mature fruit in September. 



E. OBLIQUA, L'Her. " Stringybark." Gulf Road. This 

 species has never been found so far north before. The 

 fruits differ from those figured as E. obliqua in Hooker's 

 •'Flora of Tasmania" (i. 136, t. 28), and also from the 

 delineation in Baron von Mueller's 'Eucalyptograhia." In 

 both instances the fruits are shown with a contracted, 

 countersunk rim, but in my specimens the fruits are 

 heimspherical, with a fiat, broad truncate rim. The 

 shape of the leaves corresponds in every particular with 

 all the descriptions and figures published of F. obliqua. 



A microscopial examination of the anthers showed 

 them also to agree with Bentham's description (B. Fl. 

 iii. p. 204). 



This form of B. obliqua is evidently peculiar to New 

 South Wales, as it has also been found near the National 

 Park (F. Williams). 



This species probably occurs also at Mudgee, although 

 not collected by Hamilton (P.L.S.N.S. W. 2nd Ser. 

 Vol. ii. p. 279). 



E. capitellata, Sm. Found throughout the whole district 

 in both basaltic and sandstone country. From Rylstone 

 to the Goulburn River it goes liy the name of " White 

 Stringybark," the same as E. eugenioides ; in fact, the 

 settlers look upon them as one and the same species, but 

 on the watershed between the Capertee and Turon Rivers 

 it is called "Silvertop" and "Messmate," — rather unfor- 

 tunate terms and not mentioned here to be perpetuated, 

 but only as a warning, as it is now generally decided by 

 botanists to reserve those terms for E. amygdalina. 



