EUCALYPTUS FLORA. 359° 
The specimens of Gunn labelled 808 (7) doubtless belong 
to that form also. See my remarks on “ #. radiata, Sieb.” 
(Hooker’s var. 5). A specimen in Herb. Kew. is labelled 
“ #.-nitida, Hook. f. A large dense tree, near the sea, at 
Port Arthur.” Fruit bright or shiny. The rim is 
slightly raised, broadish, and very*red. It bears a strong 
superficial resemblance to #. hamastoma. 
When reducing it to a form of #. amygdalina, Bentham 
has a note, “Leaves broader and more rigid. Peduncles 
and pedicels shorter. Flowers rather longer. H. ambigua, 
DC. Prod. iii. 219 (?%), from the idagnosis taken from 
Labillardiére’s specimen. #. nitida, Hook. f. In the 
dried specimens this variety appears to pass into the 
variety elata of H. Risdoni” (B. FI. iii. 203). 
EL. amygdalina passes imperceptibly into var. nitida, which 
has thicker, broader leaves, hemispherical operculum, broad, 
domed red rim, fruits in heads; but all these points are 
variable. 
I have specimens from Jenolan Caves, N.S.W., which 
closely resemble Hooker’s 2. nitida, as figured in FI. Tas. 
This is the nearest approach I have yet seen in New South 
Wales to the Tasmanian variety; it appears to connect this 
form with that form of 7. regnans which Mr. Baker has 
named vitrea. 
5. H. amygdalina, var. alpina, Rodway, Herb. 
A stunted tree, glaucous in all its parts, strongly remind- 
ing one of #. coriacea, A. Cunn., var:alpina, from which 
it can be chiefly distinguished by its prominent midrib, 
and perhaps more spreading veins. This form, found on 
Ironstone Mt., and in other high situations, requires a 
fuller knowledge of Tasmanian Eucalypts in the field than 
I at present possess to determine its position absolutely. 
It is one of the forms intermediate between HF. coccifera 
and H. amygdalina. It is very near to, and perhaps 
identical with, one or more forms of #. radiata, Hook. f., 
non. Sieb. (vars. 2 and 3). At present one cannot do 
harm by adopting Mr. Rodway’s provisional name, and 
when the Eucalypts of Tasmania are more fully ex- 
amined, I would suggest to my co-worker, Mr. Rodway, 
to issue numbered sets of the amygdalina-Risdoni series, 
in order that we may secure as much definiteness as 
possible in referring to these intermediate forms. 
