84 NOTES ON TASMANIAN EUCALYPTS, 



5. E. nitida Hook. f. Fl. Tas., i., 137, t. 29. 



Bentham (B. Fl. iii., 203) reduced this to a variety 

 (nitida) of E. (iniygdalina. 



In B. Fl. iii., 203, we have the observation : "In the 

 dried specimens the variety [nitida) appears to pass 

 into the variety elata of Kisdoni." This remark is in- 

 ter estiiag in view of the fact that a seedling of E. nitida 

 from Blackheath, N.S.W., about 9 inchesi high, can- 

 noti be distinguished by me froim a seedling of the same 

 size raisied by Rodway named by him E. Risdoovi var. 

 liyijericifolia. This is additional evidence of the inter- 

 relations betweem members rf this group, which, from 

 this aspect, I propose to go fully into^ when I deal com- 

 jjrehensively with the seedlings of the genus. 



I followed Benthara's example as tO' the status of 

 E. nitida in CR. Part vi., p. 158. At p. 163 of the 

 same work, I announced the discovery of this (variety) 

 species at Mt. Victoria, N.S.W. 



Mr. Cambage and I (Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., xxx., 

 192, 1905), in recording it from Blackheath, a few miles 

 from Mount Victoria (both in the Blue Mountains), said, 

 "We now raise the questioai that E. nitida Hook, f., may 

 be a valid species after all." 



We {Proc. Roy. Soc. N.S.W., xlviii., 415, 416, 1914) 

 definitely expressed the opinion tha,t E. nitida is a good 

 species, and we record a specimen from Kydra, via 

 Nimity belle, in the extreme siouth of New South Wales, 

 as connecting the Blue Mountains, N.S.W. , specimens 

 with the Tasmaiuian (home of the type). 



Let me also draw attention to Mr. Cambage's Tas- 

 manian specimens referred to in the last four lines of p. 

 416. Tbey have juvenile (sucker) leaves, which have 

 neither been described nor figured before, although col- 

 lected in February, 1911, and it will be observed that their 

 width alone sharply separates them from those of E. 

 amygdalina. 



Opposite or slightly alternate^, sessile, orbicular, ovate 

 to elliptical lanceolatei, interspersed with spreading veins 

 oa both sides, somewhat rough, branches: angular or com- 

 presised, red brown, tuberculate with prominent oil glands, 

 internodes distinctly dilated at the base of the leaves, 

 caused by the fusion of the petioles. (See Plate XII). 

 Mr. L. C. Irby collected this species near Devonpcrt, 

 17.6.12, and I am indebted to Mr. Rodway for a sight of 

 the specimen, and of Mr. Irby's note: — • 



"A shrub or stunted tree. Bark scaly, and, I think, 

 like any young Black Peppermint (cimygdalina). Leaves 



