86 NOTES ON TASMANIAN EUCALYPTS, 



very beautiful. I did not see these lea,veis oin other local 

 trees, and they axe therefore, in this district at least, 

 characteristic. 



7. E. ovata Labill. 



At the Ousie are very large trees, mainly on the flats, 

 but also on thie sides of the rises. T'hey have rough 

 butts, with fiattisih ribs of fibrous bairk, reiminiscent of 

 Syncarijia laurifolia Ten. (the Turpentine of New South 

 Wales). 



Branches smooth, but they are rough-barked trees 

 on the whole. 



S. E. Perriniana F.v.M. 



A planted tree at Ellisleai, on the Dee, was (March, 

 1918) bearing fruit in an extraordinary quantity rarely 

 seen in the genus. It is semi-pendulous, and the branches 

 brittle; the timber is, therefore, inferior in value. Piu-- 

 plish glaucous branohlets, diameter' 2 feet 6 inches; 

 height 50 feet. On the Strickland it grows on poor sandy 

 soil and is scrubby, rarely attaining the size of the 

 Ellislea tree. 



There is a cultivated tree in the garden of Dr. Clarke, 

 Macquarie Street, Hobart. It is only (February, 1918) 

 about 10 feet high. As growth proceeds, the rhachises 

 increase in diameter and stretch the bases of the per- 

 foliate leaves. The leaves are persistent fdr a long time, 

 and leave circular scars on the branches, and even on the 

 main trunk. This phenomenon is rare in Eucalyptus. 



9. E. Risdoni Hook. f. (in HooJc. Lond. Journ. Bat. vi., 

 477, including 1. E. liyjjericifolia R. Br., Herb, which 

 =-■ 2. E. amyc/dalina Labill. var. (?) hyjjerieifolia Benth. 

 in B. Fl. iii., 203). 



Through the kindness of Dr. A. B. Rendle, F.R.S., 

 of the British Museum (Natural History), London, I have 

 received a specimen of the type, labelled "E^icalyptuH 

 hyijerici folia R. Br., in coll. saxos prope Risdon Cove, 

 R. Brown." This Avas subsequently given the number 

 4789. 



E. Risdoni was figured by Hooker fil. himself in Fl. 

 Tas. i., t. 24, so we know Avhat it is. I alsoi figured it in 

 C.R., Plate 32. 



The name hyperici folia, either as species or variety, 

 has been a good deal referred tO' by botanists. See pp. 

 173, 174, Part vi., C.R.. But, so far as I am aware, it has 

 nevei- been figured, and I figure the type. (See Plate XII). 



