EUCALYPTUS CORDATA. 345 
near Bathurst, a tree which my field observations, in con-~ 
junction with the plate and description (loc. cit.) show to 
be identical with Sims’ #. pulverulenta, and quite distinct 
from F. cordata, which is a medium-sized tree, with leaves, 
fruits, and buds quite distinct from the New South Wales 
Eucalyptus. The two could never be confounded in the 
field. 
E. cordata has not the “ weak, green stem, hardly able. 
to support itself’ of Sims’ plant, neither has it the nodal 
appearance of the branches caused by the scars left by the 
fallen leaves at their former place of attachment. 
The differences in the dried herbarium material of the 
two are also well marked, and on such grounds, as well as 
chemical evidence, I consider them quite distinct. 
Sir Joseph Dallon Hooker has recently (May, 1902) de 
scribed and figured this species as distinct from the other 
two in the “ Botanical Magazine.” 
Il.—Lucalyptus pulverulenta (Sims’, Bot. Mag., t. 2087). 
The description of this species was first published in 
1819 (Bot. Mag., t. 2087), by Sims, from a cultivated 
specimen obtained from the Northampton Nursery, its 
habitat being given (loc. cit.) as a native of New 
Holland. Its present known habitat in New South Wales 
is Cow Flat, near Bathurst, and beyond the Blue 
Mountains, which range was not crossed by the early 
explorers until after 1813, so that the opinion is held by 
some that there could scarcely have been time for the seed 
to have been collected in New South Wales and then to 
have been imported into England, and for shrubs to have 
grown to the size stated by Sims, in 1819. It has therefore 
been supposed that the seeds from which these trees were 
raised in England must, have come from Tasmania. It 
is quite possible that seeds may have been sent from Tas- 
mania ; in which case, of course, the species occurred in that 
island; but it is doubtful, as no material has ever been 
recorded from there that could be placed as Sims’ £. 
pulverulenta. But there is also no reason why it may not 
also have occurred in the early days of New South Wales 
much nearer Sydney than is at present the case, and seeds 
of indigenous plants were probably sent from Sydney by 
almost every boat returning to England immediately after 
the foundation of the Colony in 1788. The locality ‘‘ New 
Holland ”’ is significant in 1819, as Bass had already dis- 
covered 20 years before, that Tasmania was an island, and 
