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highly vakied and considered equal to if not superior to 

 Ironbark. The bark is smooth, with a silvery sheen. 

 The leaves differ from those of the two other varieties in 

 being much narrower and giaiicous, the venation being 

 the same as in the Camboon variety. The flowers are the 

 smallest of the three varieties, the stamens are all fertile 

 as in the first variety, the fruits glaucous, 1 line in 

 diameter. 



I was at fix'st inclined to consider these as three dis- 

 dinct species (being so looked upon by the residents), 

 but a microscopial examination of the anthers proved 

 them identical. The anthers are cylindrical, "truncated, 

 opening by terminal pores " in eiich variety, and as 

 faithfully figured by Baron von Mueller in his " Euca- 

 lyptographia." There is evidently an error in Bentham's 

 description of the anthers (B. Fl. iii. 214). 



In closing these remarks I would like to point out 

 that the New South Wales E. polya^ithama differs con- 

 siderably in the character of its bark from the Victorian 

 form, which has " an ashy-grey, persistent, rough and 

 furrowed bark" (F.v.M., B. Fl. iii. 213), while all the 

 trees seen by me, and I ha^■e collected from the coast to 

 the western slope of the Dividing Range, are smooth- 

 barked. The leaves of the Sydney E. ijolyanthema are 

 much larger and more ovate than any of the three 

 varieties above enumerated. 



E. HEMiPHLOiA, F.V.M. " Box." Throughout the district on 

 the flats. It is not by any means the fine upstanding 

 tree growing on the coast near Parramatta. 



It was found in flower at Bylong and Murrumbo in 

 October. Mr. A. G. Hamilton gives the flowering time 

 at Mudgee, 40 miles east, as April and May, — an 

 evidence of the uncertain times of flowering of Eucalypts. 

 I have kept this species apart from the following, as 

 I consider them quite distinct when the following 



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