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The following specimens are more or less referable to this variety : — 

 Broken Bay to Hunter River. — A dense mass of fruits, foliage coarse and thick. 

 Fruits thin-rimmed, and varying from fig. Ic, plate 42, to nearly hemispherical, and a 

 broader brim, Wyong (J. L. Boorman). Specimens exactly similar, except that the 

 fruits are not borne in such profusion. Juvenile foliage very thin, Tuggerah (J. L. 

 Boorman). These two specimens have the fruits of E. acmenioides and the leaves of 

 E. umbra or carnea. 



" Messmate," figured at fig. 6, plate 42. I have accentuated the points in this 

 specimen, but am satisfied it is not really dissimilar to the Wyong and Tuggerah 

 specimens. Awaba (J. L. Boorman). Specimens from Waratah, Newcastle (Jesse 

 Gregson) are similar. 



Wyee (A. Murphy), rim of fruit very narrow, yet closer to the umbra type. 



Hunter to Manning Rivers. — The following specimens are of interest in that they 

 were collected by the late Forester Augustus Rudder, with whom I had many con- 

 versations and much correspondence with the view of finding out if we could really 

 make another species out of the trees called " White Mahogany," and included by the 

 Rev. Dr. WooUs and Baron von Mueller, amongst others, \mder E. acmenioides. 



(a) Seven miles from Raymond Terrace, on the Booral Road ; alluvial, 19/2/93. 



Thick foliage, fruits more pear-shaped than usual, thin rim. I call this thick- 

 leaved acmenioides, but I cannot separate it from carnea. 



(b) Broad foliage, buds much resembling fig. 4a, plate 42, fruits like fig. Ic. Near 



Dungog, ordinary forest clayey subsoil; shale, 6/9/91. Thick-leaved acmeni- 

 oides inseparable from carnea, in my view. 



(c) Very broad, coarse foliage. Small fruits, somewhat like fig. Ic, plate 42; 



thought by Mr. Rudder to be E. piperita. Near Cooloongoolook ; clay soil, 

 24/7/91. Same as (b) in my opinion. 



The following specimens from the same district were collected by myself: — 



(d) Stroud. Fruits much like (a), not so ripe, and scarcely so pear-shaped. This 



specimen has the fruits (some of them) a little broadish, and shows that carnea 

 and umbra run into each other. I name it the same as (a). 



(e) Tinonee. Fruits pear-shaped like (a), but smaller. Fruits of acmenioides, 



thick foliage of carnea or umbra as one chooses to say. 



Hastings to Richmond Rivers. — No. 129, " White Mahogany." Forester G. R. 

 Brown, Port Macquarie. In flower only, style persistent. Thick, rather coarse foliage, 

 buds and leaves a good deal like fig. 4a, plate 42. I call it thick-leaved acmenioides. 



Port Macquarie to Kempsey (J.H.M.). — Foliage thick, fruits of normal acmenioides. 

 Inseparable from carnea. 



Now we come to two type-specimens of E. carnea, viz.: — Woodburn, Richmond 

 River (W. Baeuerlen) and Wardell, Lismore (W. Baeuerlen). 



