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really the case, or whether the New England species is E. piperita, 

 remains yet to be determined. In the present unsettled state of 

 the genus, when all the known species are passing under the care- 

 ful review of Mr. Bentham .and Dr. F. Mueller, for the purpose 

 of identification and scientific arrangement, it would be inexpe- 

 dient to form any definite opinion. I cannot, however, agree 

 with the view expressed in the Fragrnenta (vol. 2, p. 66), that E. 

 odorata is scarcely to be separated from E. populnea or E. populi- 

 folia. They appear distinct species, and I think that when the 

 Doctor compares his own elegant figure of the species with that 

 of Sir William Hooker's, he will modify the opinions which he has 

 published on the subject. The other Myrtaceous tree is that for- 

 merly known as Eugenia Smithii or Acmena elliptica, but now 

 transferred to the genus Syzygium, as 8. bracliynemum. This is 

 our " Lilly Pilly," which although on our creeks a small tree, at- 

 tains, in favourable localities, the height of eighty feet or more, 

 and affords excellent timber for carpenters and coopers. The 

 figure of this tree is perfectly correct, but it scarcely conveys an 

 adequate impression of the freshness and beauty of the Lilly Pilly 

 as seen on the banks of our creeks or shady gullies. "When the 

 fruit is ripe, and its white, purple, or plum-coloured tints afford a 

 pleasing relief to the dark and sombre evergreen leaves around it, 

 there is scarcely a prettier object. The berries vary very much 

 in colour, and before they assume the shrivelled appearance, as 

 represented in the figure, are decidedly ornamental. Of the 

 leguminosse, I notice only two which can strictly be said to be- 

 long to this colony, viz., Trigonella suavissima and Psoralea acan- 

 tJwcarpa. The first of these was particularly noticed by Sir 

 Thomas Mitchell in his expedition on the Darling, but it seems 

 to have been previously collected by Cunningham on Molle's 

 Plains : the other is now called Glycyrrhiza psoraleoides and grows 

 on the Lachlan and Darling. Celastrus Australia is a tall woody 

 climber not uncommon in some parts of the bush in the county of 

 Camden ; and Sambucus xanthocarpa, or the native elder, with 

 yellow fruit, may be found near Sydney. 



Both of these shrubs will be easily recognised, as also our 

 native raspberry (Eulus parviflorus) which some have thought 

 might be much improved as a fruit by grafting and proper culti- 

 vation. Of the Gloodeniacea?, there is a figure of Velleya connata, 



