BY R. T. BAKER. 679 



Fruits hemispherical, 5 lines in -diameter, rim thick, red; 

 valves slightly exserted, acute. 



Hob. — Dromedary Mountain (C. S. Wilkinson, F.G.S.); Colombo 

 (W. Bauerlen); Barber's Creek (H. Rumsay); Sutton Forest (R. 

 T. Baker). 



This is the " Stringy bark " variety of E. hcemastoma, Sm., men- 

 tioned by Baron von Mueller in his Eucalyptographia under that 

 species. 



It was first observed in this colony by the late Government 

 Geologist, Mr. C. S. Wilkinson, F.G.S., at Dromedary Mountain 

 at an elevation of 1,500ft. above sea level, and named for him by 

 Mueller as stated above. 



It differs, however, from E. fxemastoma, Sm., in the nature of 

 the timber, texture and venation of leaves, bark and chemical 

 constituents of the oil and kino; and it is on these differences 

 that it is now raised to specific rank. 



The bark and timber ally it to E. eugenioides, " White 

 Sti-ingybark," and in botanical sequence it is placed next to that 

 species. 



The oil resembles that of E. Icevopinea, Baker, but no other 

 characters connect it with that species. 



The fruits, and particularly the oil, differentiate it from the other 

 " Stringybarks," such as E. capiteliata, Sm., E. macrorhyncha, 

 F.v.M., E. eugenioides, Sieb., E. dextropinea, Baker. 



The red rim of the fruits has evidently been the cause of the 

 misplacing of this species, but it is well known now that this is a 

 character common to a number of Eucalypts. 



It is a feature quite absent from E. Icevopinea, Baker. In 

 fact the fruits of the two species are so very different that the 

 trees could not be synonymised with any degree of correctness in 

 specific naming. The bark, leaves, venation and timber of these 

 trees also differ. 



E. Icevopinea, Baker, has a hard, compact bark right out to the 

 branchlets, whilst this tree has a light-coloured, loose stringy 

 bark, not extending out to the limbs. 



