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a very unusual circumstance in a Euoalypt, and the leaves are alternate, and not opposite as in the case of 

 normal Sluarliama. The average size of the young leaves is 1 , ; x (j inch. Turning to tin* mature foliage, 

 it is lanceolate, the average size of the leaves being 2',' x \ inch. The foliage is not glaucous in any part, 

 not even the sucker foliage. The tree attains a size of 2 or .'5 feet in diameter. I traced it from 

 5 miles east of Yanowitch to at least as far west as Tia. Mr. A. R. Crawford has sent it to me from 

 Moona Plains, in the Waleha district. Mr. Henry Deane has collected it near Glen Innes. (l'roc. Aust. 

 Ass. Adv. Science, vii, 512, 1898.) 



Speaking of New England, Mr. J. E. Campbell writes, this is the c: Scrub or 

 narrow-leaved Peppermint," confined chiefly to the plateau scrubs of the higher 

 altitudes, country generally of cold soils and difficult to improve. 



A specimen from the Dividing Range towards the Gloucester, Leiehhardt, 

 with the same foliage, with young buds like those of E. crebra, but with very small 

 globular-truncate fruits, scarcely contracted at the orifice (B.E1. hi, 222, under 

 E. crebra), seems to me to be E. acaciceformis. 



The following are additional localities in the National Herbarium, Sydney : — 

 Guy Fawkes (J. L. Boorman) ; Baker's Creek to Chandler River, Armidale 

 district (A. W. Howitt) ; Parish of Scott, County of Parry (E. H. E. Swain); 

 "Black Peppermint," Parish Vernon, County Perry (M. H. Simon) ; Eoot of Mount 

 Spiraby, 2 miles east, Tenterfield district (J.H.M.) ; Boonoo Boonoo, 12 miles north- 

 east of Tenterfield (B. H. Cambage). 



AFFINITIES. 



E. acaciceformis has no very close affinities so far as we knoAv at present, so 

 that further enquiry is necessary. 



1. With E. cinerea F.v.M. var. nova-anglica Maiden (E. nova-anglica, Deane 



and Maiden). 



The bark and timber are similar ; I cannot indicate any important difference 

 between them. The two trees grow together. Compare Plate 90 (Part xxi). The 

 juvenile leaves sharply separate them. 



2. With E. parvifolia Cambage. 



There is some resemblance to this species. I will refer to the matter when 

 I figure E. parvifolia. E. acaciaformis has a rough bark, while that of E. parvifolia 

 is smooth. 



Variety, 



Variety linearis, Deane and Maiden (Joe. cit.). 



The Eucalypt referred to as No. 4 at p. 512, Vol. vii, Proe. Aust. Ass. Adv. 

 Science (1698). 



A singularly graceful tree, reminding one of a Weeping Willow. Height .about 50 feet, and trunk 

 diameter 2 feet, as far as seen. 



The twigs are slender, a characteristic of the tree being the smallncss and the grace cf its parts. 

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