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RANGE. 



A TYPICAL form. Sieber's No. 467, Fl. Nov. Holl. Sieber's specimen came frcm 

 Port Jackson or Blue Mountains, according to Bentham (B.Fl. iii, 202). Specimen 

 received from Berlin Herbarium. 



Following are notes on three trees from the Spit, Middle Harbour, Port Jackson. 

 They were all gathered within a few yards of each other, are all the same, and all similar 

 to the type. 



(a) 15 feet high. Angular twigs, pale-coloured foliage, the leaves falcate and 

 hooked, 2 to 3.^ inches, or rarely 4 inches, long. Pointed yellowish operculum. 

 Fruits 5-celled, over l inch long, by about -j^ across, and pale-coloured. They 

 have a long, broad, common peduncle, and the calyx is elongated and continuous 

 with the pedicel. 



(b) Operculum pointed. Fruits 5-celled, flat-topped or a little domed, and barely 



half an inch long. The common peduncle elongated, and much flattened 

 upward. 



(c) Operculum pointed. Fruits half an inch long, flat-topped, but sunk, angled, 



in addition to a certain amount of longitudinal folding, the result of shrivelling, 

 common to both var. obtusiflora and E. Luehmanniana. Leaves very shiny, 

 thick, and with strongly-marked venation. 



BuUi (W. Kirton), from Baron von Mueller. i 



All the above are from Port Jackson and a few miles to the south, likewise on 

 the coast, and all are quite typical. It is, however, admixed with the blunt operculum 

 form throughout its entire range. 



Then compare the following specimens from localities further south: — 



(1) Jervis Bay.— Leaves, with strongly-marked veins ; in this respect, and as regards 



size, precisely like var. obtusiflora. Operculum between that of E. virgata and 

 var. obtusiflora. Fruit with thin rim, well sunk, and closely resembling that of 

 E. stricta. 



(N.B. — Buds of var. stricta usually closely resemble those of var. obtusiflora.) 



(2) Conjola, near Milton. — Strongly resembling the preceding, but the buds more 

 nearly resembling those of var. obtusiflora ; and as regarc's the fruits, some of 

 them with a broader brim, showing characters of both E. viry.iia and var. stricta. 



1. Var. obtusiflora (Sieber's No. 473, Fl. Nov. Holl.). 



In its typical form confined to the coast, and apparently at no great distance 

 from Port Jackson. It seems unnecessary to repeat a number of locaUties. 



