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forms be examined in fruit only (without reference to the liuds), 

 they may be readily mistaken for E. inacrorrhyncJia. 



Usually, however, these connecting links between capitellata 

 and macrorrliyncha show a leaning towards the type of either one 

 species or the other, so that we may conveniently classify them, but 

 in regard to the following ti'ee we are unable to place it with 

 either one species or the other. It is the tree found on the Gulf 

 Road, Rylstone district, and attributed to E. ohliqua 1)}^ R. T. 

 Baker, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W. 1896, p. 446. 



The buds resemble those of E. eugenioides. The fruits are shortly 

 pedicellate, and in that respect approach E. macrorrJiyncha, but 

 otherwise they are hemispherical and flat-topped like many speci- 

 mens of E. euyenioides, but there is a distinct and sharp edge or rim, 

 with a tendency to doming, like E. macron-hyncha. The valves 

 are only slightly exserted. The buds appear to us dissimilar to 

 those of E. obliqua, and the fruits are too broad and hemispherical 

 for that species, the only real resemblance to E. obliqua existing 

 in the leaves, which, however, equally resemble E. capitellata. 



We have specimens collected by Mr. Augustus Rudder in the 

 same district and named by him "Mountain Stringybark." They 

 have fruits with slightly logger pedicels and many of them are 

 more of a domed character, but on the same twig with these 

 somewhat dome-shaped fruits are other fruits precisely similar to 

 those from the Gulf Road. We are quite of opinion that they 

 are from identical trees, and would on no account place them 

 under E. obliqua. 



Should it be found necessary, on account of persistence of 

 characters over a large area, to separate this tree from capitellata- 

 macrorrhyncha (it being desirable, in our opinion, to look upon it 

 as a connecting link between these species, for the present), ib 

 would perhaps be advisable to give it specific rank. 



Eucalyptus eugenioides, Sieb. 



Sieber's definition of E. eugenioides (Sprengel's Curte Posteriores 

 iv. 195), is as follows : — 



