EUCALYPTS OF THE NEW ENGLAND TABLE-LAND. 541 
forms between Yarrowitch and Walcha, which, at all events for 
the present, may be placed under LZ. Stwartiana. Variable as we 
know Z£. Stuartiana to be, my specimens accentuate this varia- 
bility. At first I was inclined to describe at least one of the forms 
as new ; but inany case two of them should be named as varieties. 
Mr. Deane and I are revising the New South Wales members of 
this genus, and my specimens will be dealt with in their proper 
place. All have fibrous bark, and are known as “ Peppermint.” 
Their timber is pinkish, with gum veins, and strongly resembles 
that of normal Stwartiana. 
The four forms provisionally included under Z. Stwartiana are 
as follows :— 
1, A tree with box-scaly or apple-like (as we understand the 
term in this Colony), bark, rough, except the ultimate branchlets; 
suckers ovate-lanceolate, not glaucous, except the very young tips 
of the branchlets of the suckers. The sucker foliage reminds one a 
good deal of #. viminalis ; the bark is, however, that of Stwartiana, 
and the tree (not rare, say, from 7 to 10 miles east of Walcha), 
is but another reminder of the intimate relationship between the 
two species. The fruits of this form are of the normal size. We 
now come to the three small fruited forms, which remind one a 
good deal of H. microtheca, but they can at once be distinguished 
from the latter species by the pale-coloured foliage and more spread- 
ing fruit and valves of #. microtheca. All are known as peppermint 
of one sort or another. 
2.—Broad-suckered Peppermint.—I have two series of speci- 
mens, which, however, run into each other. Both are glaucous 
on the twigs, even when bearing mature foliage. The sucker ~ 
foliage of both forms is very glaucous. The glaucousness also 
shows itself in the flush of new growth pushed out beyond the old 
foliage, 7.e., the glaucousness is not confined, as is frequently the 
case, to entirely new twigs or seedlings. The fruits are smaller 
and more pedicellate than shown in the “ Hucalyptographia” draw- 
ing of #. Stuartiana. The sucker foliage is, however, similar in 
shape to that shown in the drawing referred to, which, however, 
depicts comparatively small suckers. The mature foliage is 
lanceolate. The dimensions of an average leaf are 43 by ? inches. 
The sucker foliage is nearly orbicular, and 2 inches in diameter. 
I first noticed this form—rather fine trees, with trunks 3 feet 
in diameter—between Yarrowitch and Tia. It is more or less 
abundant right into Walcha, where, surrounding the town, it 
seemed to form the bulk of the scrubby vegetation, probably 
because the trees have been cut down, as generally happens to 
them near a town. At the same time, I noticed a number of small 
and even medium-sized trees during a drive round Walcha. 
