158 

 Variety iiitida, Beiitli. 



19. E. nitida. Hook, f. 



Arbor mediocris, ramulis pendulis, foliis anguste lanceolatis longe acuminatis coriaceis nitidis 

 vernicosis nervis divergentibus, pedunculis validis multifloris, floribus bi'evibus subsessilibus, calyce breviter 

 clavato V. obconico, operculo brevi lato, capsulis sessilibus parvis subglobnsis ore contracto v. subdilatato, 

 marginibus crassis planis angustive. (Tab. xxix.) (Gunn, 808.) 



Hal). — Hol)artnn, Circular Head, Currie's River, east of Georgetown ; A. Cuiininghaui, Gunn. 



I have great doubts as to the distinctness of this species, which I have at one time been inclined to 

 refer to £ iim!/()ilalina, and at others to E. raiHafa {Risdoni, var. elain, in part, J. H. M.), but from both 

 of which it differs in very small sessile fruit, and very shining, coriaceous leaves. Gunn says that at the 

 Currie's River it forms a bush only, .5 feet high ; and that at Circular Head it grows 10-20 feet high, and 

 appears more of a shrub than a tree. It approaches E. stellulata, Sieber, in many points, but wants the 

 three parallel nerves of that plant, and the large operculum. — (Hook., f., Fl. Tas., 1, 137, with plate.) 



20. E. radiata. Hook., f. (uon Sieb.), var. 5. Fl. Tas., i, 137. 



.5. Foliis angustis elongatis, capsulis parvis obconicis. Arbor elata, ad E. nitidam tendens. — 

 (Hook, f., loc. cit.). 



A label by Hooker is " A large dense tree near the sea at Port Arthur," 

 which also is a locality for his E. niiidus. The two are, in fact, identical. 



Messrs. Baker and Smith [Besearch on the Eucalyjyts, p. 169), say — 



It is now shown that its [E. ami/ffdalina) leaves, timber, bark, fruits, chemical constituents, 

 ic, differentiate it clearly and distinctly from . . . . E. iiUidci, Hook., f., 



but no evidence is furnished in sujiport of this statement. 



When reducing E. nitida to a variety of E. amygdalina, Bentham has a note : 



Leaves broader and more rigid. Peduncles and pedicels shorter. Flowers rather longer. . 

 {E. iiitid'i. Hook. f.). In the dried specimens this variety appears to pass into the variety elata of E_ 

 Bisdoni.~(R.F\. iii, 203.) 



Rodway {The Tasni,anlnn Flora, p. .j6), defines var. nitida as — 



Differing from small-statured individuals only in the leaves being broader and more rigid, 

 running absolutely into the type. 



There is no doubt that the species passes imperceptibly into var. nitidn, which 

 has thicker, broader leaves, broad, domed, red rim, fruits in heads ; but all these 

 points are variable. It is, indeed, not a strong variety ; it is especially close to the 

 shiny and coriaceous amyydalina so common near the coast in many parts of 

 Tasmania. 



21. E. amhigua, DC. : — 



E. amhigua, operculo hemisphferico mucronulato cupuffe breviore, pedunculis axillaribus corapressis 

 petioli longitudine, umbellis 8-9 Boris capitatis, foliis lanceolatis subcoriaceis basi sequaliter attenuatis apice 

 acuminato-mucronulatis. In Nova Hollandia. Labillardiere. Affinis E. liqustrince et nmygdalinw. Fructus 

 subglobosus dupl6 major. Pet. et pedunc, 2-3 lin. longi. Folia 2-3 poll, longa 6-12 lin. lata rigidula 

 venis lateralibus vix perspicuis. — (DC. Prod, iii, 219.) 



