THE EUCALYPTS OF GIPPSLAND. 85 



and it grows ui^on Mount Livingstone at about 3000ft., which is, probably, near its 

 upper limit. According to my observation it does not exceed 100ft. in height, and is 

 more frequently under 50ft. Its bark is wrinkled, approaching to fibrous, and 

 persists up to the smaller branches. 



The seedlings and young saplings have opposed sessile lanceolar leaves, which 

 are, however, much broader than the ordinary form, approaching at times pointed 

 ovate. 



The leaves when scattered are broadly foliate and unequal-sided. The umbels, 

 buds, and flowers are those of the typical form, but the fruit is much larger, and 

 almost always ovate top-shaped, with a flat or slightly convex margin, and a brown 

 or brownish-red tint. The valves, as in the ordinary form, are small. 



However much this tree resembles the ordinary form of this Eucalypt, it is 

 clearly to be distinguished from it, because the two varieties very commonly grow 

 together, each maintaining its own character. 



In other places they may be found forming independent colonies. While the 

 common variety grows especially in the damp gullies and on the shady sides of the 

 ranges from the sea level up to about 4000ft., this form of Amygdalina {b) grows 

 preferably upon the sunny slopes from 70Uft. to 4000ft. (See PL 8.) 



(c.) This variety is restricted to barren sand ridges of the littoral tracts, for 

 instance, in South Gippsland, between Merriman's Creek and Warrigal Creek, 

 together with Banksia serrata. Acacia oxycedrus, and other sand-hill vegetation. It 

 does not exceed 30ft. in height, and has a marked drooping habit in its branches and 

 foliage, while the bark is wrinkled and persistent up to the small branchlets. 

 The form of the leaves distinguishes it from variety (a), for they are long and narrow 

 lanceolar or falcate, the venation is so little spreading as to resemble in some respects 

 that of E. pauciflora or E. stellulata; the flowers and fruit are typical of E. 

 amygdalina, to which I have assigned the tree. (See PI. 10, Figs. 6 to 12.) 



(d.) This is the most widely-spread variety of E. amygdalina, and at the same 

 time that which departs most from the typical form. It grows most freely upon the 

 rather poor sandy and clay lands of the littoral tracts, but I have also observed it in 

 the mountains, for instance, where poor sandy tracts occur, as well as on the quartz 

 grits and conglomerates at Wild-horse Creek, Wentworth Eiver, on the Upper Silurian 

 sediments, between Toongabbie and Walhalla, the Silurian sediment in the Tanibo 

 Valley Road, the Upper Devonian formations of the Insolvent Track, the Devonian 

 porphyries at Gelantipy, and the Silurian formations at Delegate Eiver. 



It rarely grows more than 100ft. in height, but is generally a rather small tree, 

 often stunted. The bark classes it with the stringy barks, for it is fibrous and 



