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On New Ens^land the tendency of the leaves is to hecome smaller and more 

 coriaceons, and the buds to become less to more angular* than the type, the 

 operculum shorter and the fruit more pear-shaped. The rim is not sharp, and the 

 domed portion is narrow. At the same time there are considerable differences in the 

 shapes and sizes of the fruits in these northern forms as the figures Avill show. 

 Following are some specimens in the National Herbarium : — 



Tingha, on granite, fruits nearly spherical, more or less glaucous, buds 

 approaching normal (No. 962, E,. H. Cambage). 



Tingha, juvenile foliage narrower or more lanceolate than the type, but not 

 invariably so. Stellate hairs, marginal characters as before. Intermediate foliage 

 very broad and coarse (like the Stanthorpe, Q., specimen figured at fig. 18, pi. 39). 

 Buds compressed (J. L. Boorman). Mr. Boorman and I have collected fruits at 

 Tingha in heads, with valves as exsert as it is possible for tliem to be. 



At Howell, near Tingha, Mr. Boorman and I collected a grandifiora form of 

 this species, also specimens similar to the Tingha ones, and also fruits inclining to 

 be pear-shaped, as referred to elsewhere when discussing this species. 



Mount Seaview (J.H.M.). Bluff E.iver, near Tentertield ; also Glen Innes 

 (H. Deane) are obviously similar to var. brachycorys, but the rim is less rounded. 



A second Bluff Biver specimen (H. Deane) is more glaucous and angular in 

 all its parts, with larger fruits. I cannot distinguish it from Boorman's Tingha 

 specimens, except, perhaps, in the more pronounced grooving of the rim. 



Tent Hill, Avest of Deepwater (E. C. Andrews). In fruit only, which is 

 depressed, tending to be hemispherical and the rim not sharp. 



Emmaville. Buds very compressed (J. L. Boorman). From same locality 

 (E. C. Andrews), but with shiny, scarcely angular buds, and angular, fiat, broad- 

 rimmed fruits like var. {'^) brachycorys. This angular rim appears to be less marked 

 in fully ripe fruits. Stanthorpe, Queensland (F. M. Bailey). 



The following specimens show some affinity to Iluelleriana, and may be 

 reported upon separately as a matter of convenience. 



(a) Nundle, Liverpool Range (.1. L, Boorman). Fruits pear-shaped, white- 

 dotted, buds not angular, opercula conical. (See fig. 11, pi. 38.) 



(fj) Allied to the above, but buds and fruits smaller and paler, and the angular 

 rim of the latter almost absent. Attunga, 12 miles N.W. of Tamworth, 

 growing on hill of serpentine formation (R. H. Cambage). (See fig. 12, 

 pi. 38.) 



(c) " Red Stringybark," Walclia District (A. R. Crawford), with fruits 

 inclining to pear-shape. (See fig. 10, pi. 38.) 



• In the more exposed situations the mutual compression causes tlio buds to bo bhmtly angular and compressed just 

 like E. capitdlala of the coast. 



