542 PROCEEDINGS OF SECTION D. 
This form is identical with specimens collected by Mr. Henry 
Deane at Glen Innes, and called by him “ grey peppermint,” and 
perhaps identical with “ peppermint-box,” collected by the same 
gentleman at the Bluff, near Tenterfield; early fruit only available; 
bark, rough and furrowed. 
Mr. Augustus Hooke, of Tia Station, gave me a quantity of 
manna which had been collected on his station under the pepper- 
mint trees (this form now under consideration). I did not see the 
manna under the trees myself, but Mr. Hooke is not likely to be 
mistaken in regard to a tree and a product so familiar. Manna 
on #. viminalis is common encugh; in fact, one form of this 
species is called “manna-gum” in consequence, and considering 
the intimate relations of #. viminalis and EH. Stwartiana, which 
become the more pronounced the more one studies them in the 
field, it is not a difficult matter for me to believe that manna is 
also found on the latter species. I believe this is the first time 
manna has been recorded from £. Stwartiana. : 
3. Between Yarrowitch and Tia I got off my horse to examine 
what appeared to me to be an Acacia of the penninervis group. 
When I got close to it I found that it was the young foliage of a 
EKucalypt. The plant is a beautiful species in a young state, form- 
ing a dense shapely shrub, say 6 or 8 feet in diameter, and different 
to any other Hucalypt known to me. The young, or sucker 
foliage, is pale coloured, lanceolate, symmetrical, always blunt at 
the apex, which is sometimes rounded. The margin is crenulate, 
a very unusual circumstance in a Eucalypt, and the leaves are 
alternate, and not opposite as is the case of normal Stwartiana. 
The average size of the young leaves is 1? x 3in. Turning to 
the mature foliage, it is lanceolate, the average size of the leaves 
being 2? x 4in. The foliage is not glaucous in any part, not even 
the sucker foliage. The fruits are small, nearly sessile, and the 
valves are less exserted than in the previous form. The anthers 
open in parallel slits. The tree attains a size of 2 or 3 ft. in 
diameter. I traced it from 5 miles east of Yarrowitch to at least 
as far west as Tia. Mr. A. R. Crawford has sent it to me from 
Moona Plains, in the Walcha district. Mr. Henry Deane has 
collected it near Glen Innes. The range of the tree is conse- 
quently fairly considerable, and it is very desirable that we should 
know precisely where it occurs. Of its geographical distribution 
we know but little, a remark which applies to other forms of 
£. Stuartiana referred to in this paper. 
4, Sixteen to seventeen miles east of Walcha I observed a droop- 
ing, singularly graceful tree, reminding one of a weeping willow. 
It appeared to be scarce. The height was about 50 ft., and the 
trunk diameter 2 ft. I have arrived at the conclusion that it 
forms in some respects a connecting link between Nos. 2 and 3. 
