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Explanation of Plates. 



PLATE 33. . 



E. regnans, F.v.M. 



1. Leaves with flowers ; la, leaf with fruits (1 and la from the same twig) ; 16, buds ; [c, fruits of type, 



from the Dandenong, Victoria (D. Boyle). Note that the fruits on lo are immature and 

 resemble those of E. amygdalina a good deal. 



Note. — It was for some time considered that E. regnans was confined to Victoria, and 

 E./astigata to New South Wales. 



2. Seedling of E. regnans, from Mirboo North, Victoria (A. W. Howitt). I have a seedling of the same 



size of E. fastigata from Tan ta wangle Mountain, New South Wales (H. Deane and J.H.M.), which 

 is a facsimile of this. T cannot, indeed, tell them apart. 2a, juvenile leaf Mirboo North 

 (A. W. Howitt). 



3. Leaves in intermediate stage of " Cut-tail,'' E. fastigata, Tantawanglo Mountain (H. Deane and 



J.H.M.). 

 i. Fruits, old and nearly flat-topped. Blacks' Spur, Victoria (H. Deaue). 



5. Fruits, not domed. Walhalla, Vic. (A. W. Howitt). Note that these fruits, in everything but size, 



resemble those of E. numerosa, Maiden. The Walhalla fruits precisely match those of some 

 specimens received from Tasmania (L. Rodway). 



6. Leaf ; 6o, fniits (nearly flat-topped) of E. fastigata. Nimbo Station, New South Wales, No. 435 



(H. Deane). 



7. Leaf of large size. Sunny Corner, New South Wales (J. L. Boorman). 



8. Unusually small fruits. West Albion Park, New South Wales (R. H. Cambage). 



9. Fruits. Mittagong, New South Wales (H. Deane). 



10. Leaf ; 10a, fruits. Mt. Wellington, Tasmania (L. Rodway and H. E. Day). 



[The twig with pear-shaped fruits, to the left of the plate of £. awiy^tiotoMi (" Eucalyp- 

 tographia"), represents E- regnans. The fruits are scarcely ripe.] 



PLATE 34. 



E. vitrea, R. T. Baker. 



1. Pair of juvenile leaves; lo, leaf in the intermediate stage; 16, mature leaf; Ic, buds; \d, fruits, 



Wingello, New South Wales (J. H. Maiden and J. L. Boorman). They are precisel}' similar 

 to type specimens from Sutton Forest, a few miles away (R. T. Baker). 



2. Leaves and buds showing two umbels (this is common enough in E. regnans) : 2a, fruits, from 



another tree at Wingello. This tree often grows on low-lying rather sour land, or on land liable 

 to floods. 



3. Leaves ; 3o, buds ; 36, fruits. Following is the Collector's note : — No. •1-52. " The bark of this tree 



resembles that of E. amygdalina, the branches being much whiter, while the leaves and capsules 



are much the same as those of E. fastigata." Jenolan Caves (W. F. Blakeley). 



The foliage is pale-coloured and shiny, and most of it is very narrow, thick, with venation 



faintly visible on one side of the leaf. The fruits are not perfectly ripe, and hence the rim 



exhibits a sunken appearance in some of the specimens. (Compare PI. 35, fig. 56.) 

 1. Intermediate leaf ; 4o, buds and mature leaf ; 46, fruits. Delegate River (W. Baeuerlen). Shows 



transit to E. regnans. 

 5. Leaf; 5o, buds; 56, fruits. Upper Yarra, Victoria(C. Walter). Another remarkable form intermediate 



between E. vitrea and E. regnans. In 4 and 5 we have the broad-leaved or regnans character. 



Some botanists, with reason, look upon this as a form of E. eugenioides, Sieb ; and I will deal 



with this view in the next Part. 



