BY J. H. MAIDEN, I.S.O., F.K.S. 85 



very vai"iable, freqi f ntly over 1 inch wide and with the 

 diverging venation, and general appearance of E. vim- 

 inaJis. The other leaves on the same tree are normal 

 amygdalina. Rather rigid. Fruits as in E. amygdaliaa or 

 E. linearis." It would appear that typical amygdalina has 

 longer joedicels to the fruits, but the species are close to 

 each other. 



Rodway, this Journ. p. 14 (1917), concurs in restoring 

 E . nitida to specific rank, though with some clo-ubt, refers 

 tD it as "Broad-leaved Peppermint," and says it has the 

 habit and Avhite bark of E. linearis. He describes (with 

 some reservation) the juvenile leaves of a specimen col- 

 lected by Mr. Irby at Guildford Junction as "broad, 

 oblong," a,nd the bark "scaly or semi-fibrous." He has 

 kindly shown me the specimen, and it is E. tiitida. It 

 has the broadish juvenile leaves of the species and hemi- 

 spherical fruits, the rim of which is remarkably truncate 

 or horizontal, i.e., in a plane at right angles to the axis. 



To recapitulate, some of the Blue Mountains, N.S.W:, 

 S23eicimens seem to be' in no way different from the Tas- 

 maman type. The Kydra specimens although not al- 

 together typical are very close ; the buds are a little 

 more clavate, and the fruits slightly more pedicellate, 

 otherwise this form is identical with the type. It is 

 of course always to be borne in mind that we have lim- 

 itations arising out of the imperfection of the material 

 presented by the type and of the specimens compared with 

 it, and a certain amount, of change is toi be expected in 

 the case of specimens far away from the environment of 

 the type. 



Some Blackheath specimens (marked B in the Maiden- 

 Cambage paper of 1914) vary from the type in that the 

 leaves are narrower and more rigid ; buds very long (or 

 longer than the type) ; fruit sub-globose or barrel-shaped, 

 with a convex rim, all apparently 3-celled. The fruits 

 of the type are hemispherical, truncate, with a prominent 

 red rim. 



6. E. ohliqua L'Her. (Stringy-bark.) 



Very abundant in the Dee Scrub. The voung trees 

 have whitewashed tops or branchlets, and in this res- 

 pect are strongly reminiscent of E. Sieheriana- as seen 

 in New South Wales. 



I also noticed, around the Dee Scrub in particular, 

 that the young stringy-bark trees have more or less red 

 (bleeding heart) leaves, which, in transmitted light, look 



