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places may be found where the two varieties grow side by side on tbe Burnett. After this, the spotted 

 variety disappears and the scented kinds are confined to a few stony spots of the most elevated lidges as 

 one journeys north. The farthest north I have seen it was on the summit of the Slate'Eange, 2,100 feet 

 above the sea, on Carpentarian waters, in about Lat. 16' S. It extends no great distance inland. Fifty 

 miles from the coast is the farthest I remember to have seen it. . . . In the young state the shoots 

 are often hispid from an abundance of coarse glandular hairs of led colour. This variet .• has more the 

 odour of balm than of lemon, and hence was described as a different species. This is E. melissiodora 

 Lindley, of the Flora, which was found by Mitchell and described in "Tropical Australia." The appearance 

 for a young Eucalypt is very remarkable. The foliage is short and rough and quite rusty looking, from 

 the glands which become bristly on the small branches. (Eev. J. E. Tenison-Woods in Proc. Linn. Soc. 

 N.S.W., vii, 338, 1882-3.) 



AFFINITIES (of Species). 



E. mactdata is a well-defined member of the Corymbcsse; but it stands out from 

 all of them because of its smooth, blotched bark. 



With E. Torelliana F.v.M. 

 This is the nearest species to it, but it has black, scaly bark up to about 10 feet 

 up, while E. maculata has practically no rough bark. Then let us turn to Plate 160, 

 Part XXXIX, for E. Torelliana. It will be seen that the leaves of both species are 

 peltate and haiiy in their earliest stages, developing into the usual lanceolate-leaved 

 form, but in E. Torelliana the persistence of the broad, juvenile form is greater than 

 in E. maculata. The flower buds have a good deal of resemblance, but the opercula 

 are more conoid and more sessile in E . Torelliana. The fruits are more urceolate and more 

 distinctly nrceolate in E. Torelliana, while there is an absence of the warty excrescences 

 £0 often seen in the fruits of E. maculata. 



