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Goulburn (S. Lumsden, No. 15). Fruits small, capitate. Near Goulburn (J. B. 

 Cleland). Fruits a little larger than the preceding (fig. 7b, Plate 38), and fewer in the 

 head. Clyde Mountain, Nelligen (W. Baeuerlen, No. 31.) 



" Blue-top Stringybark." High elevation at Nethercote, 5 niiles west of Eden, 

 on ironstone gravel and trap-rock. (Forester H. H. Rose, No. 16.) 



Xorthern New South Wales. — Let us return to the Sydney district and branch 

 to the north. 



Stunted form, about 7 feet in height, diameter of 3 inches, growing on poor 

 sandstone tops, Popran Trig. Reserve 1,158 (W. A. W. de Beuzeville, No. 4). Buds 

 stellate, rounded to slightly angular; fruit capitate. 



" Stringybark," Yarramalong, Forest Reserve, No. 38,429, Ph. Wyong (W. A. W. 

 de Beuzeville, No. 25). Blue tint to young foliage, which is glabrous; buds stellate; 

 fruits capitate. " Appears like 25, but general appearance of tree is like a Blackbutt," 

 Yarramalong (W. A. W. de Beuzeville, No. 27). Juvenile foliage broadly ovate to 

 broadly lanceolate, glabrous. Very like New South Wales-Queensland border specimens. 



" Stringybark." At an elevation of between 800 and 900 feet near Booral. 

 Attains a size up to 14 or 15 feet in circumference. Buds stellate; fruits smallish, 

 •valves exsert. These specimens are figured at figures 9a and 9b, Plate 38, and there is a 

 note at p. 214 of Part VIII. While there placing them as a small fruited form of 

 capitellata, I point out that some botanists may look upon them as a form of E, 

 eugenioides with very exsert valves. 



Fruits hemispherical, slightly depressed, valves slightly exsert, rim broadish. 

 Murrurundi (J.H.M. and J. L. Boorman). Figured at figs. 22a, b, Plate 40, as a form 

 •of E. eugenioides. 



A New England Stringybark. — As we go further north, e.g., to New England, 



New South Wales, there seems to be a break in the Stringybark series, which may, of 



course, arise from imperfect collecting, and we find that E. eugenioides, E. Blaxlandi, 



and E. Muelleriana approach in a number of ways, the first being preponderant as at 



present defined. This New England form I referred to under (e) in Journ. Roy. Soc. 



N.S.W., lii, 495 (1918), as follows:— 



(e) We have also a form from New England, chiefly, so far as collected, at Wilson's Downfall, 

 Macpherson Range, Wallangarra, Armidale, &c. Also a large tree, which has broad-lanceolate up to 

 orbicular juvenile foliage (I have not seen any coriaceous), ynth buds as depicted on Plate 37. The fruits 

 are smaller than those of the type {i.e., are of the size of those of 16, 4c, 8c, Plate 38) ; sessile to pedicellate. 

 The pedicellate fruits are mostly flat-topped, and with a smooth, distinct rim. The shape of these rimmed 

 fruits may be seen in 1/, Plate 38, but in that case the fruits are sessile, the series depicted under fig. 1, 

 however, shows an amount of variation in a South Australian form which is repeated in the New England, 

 New South Wales, specimens now under review. 



There is some usefulness in referring to this series in geographical order, going 

 north. Frankly, I caimot separate these trees in some cases by marked characters, 

 and I take the opportunity of contemplating them from the point of view of affinity 

 to E. Blaxlandi. At the same time, other botanists will find it useful to consider them 



