EUCALYPTS OF THE NEW ENGLAND TABLE-LAND. 537 
No. 10.—SOME EUCALYPTS OF THE NEW ENGLAND 
TABLE-LAND. 
By J. H. Maipey, Government Botanist, and Director of the 
Botanic Gardens, Sydney. 
(Read Friday, January 7, 1898.) 
In the month of November, 1897, I set out to botanically explore 
Mount Seaview, in the Upper Hastings district, a mountain in 
regard to the height of which erroneous ideas were held until only 
a few years ago. Perhaps the most important mistake is that in 
Banks’s school map of New South Wales, in which the height is 
given at 6,000 feet. I propose to give notes on the topography of 
the country traversed in the Agricultural Gazette of New South 
Wales, and it will, therefore, be sufficient for me to explain that I 
approached the Seaview Range from Port Macquarie, travelling 
along the Port Macquarie-Walcha Road. The range is a few 
miles off the main road, northwards from the place of ascent of 
the New England Range to the tableland. While I made some 
botanical observations of interest on Mount Seaview, I consider 
them, on the whole, of inferior interest to those on the Eucalypts 
examined on the table-land en route to Walcha, and hence follow 
some notes on the species of this genus noted en route from the 
Myrtle Scrub (the edge of the table-land, and 5 miles from the 
boundary of counties of Hawes and Vernon), via Yarrowitch, 
Tia, and on to Walcha. 
My most interesting discoveries are the find of H. regnans, 
F.v.M., and #. obliqua, L’Herit., near the eastern edge of the 
New England tableland. Both are more specially Tasmanian 
and Victorian species ; and while both have been recorded from 
southern New South Wales, the finding of them, both in abund- 
ance (the latter forming an extensive forest), in northern New 
South Wales, is important. An excellent series of specimens 
from some interesting trees belonging to what may be called the 
Stuartiana group is worthy of further investigation ; and bearing 
in mind the finding of the two species above referred to, these 
specimens will be carefully compared with Tasmanian and Vic- 
torian forms. 
