293 



9. Fruits. National Park, near Sydney. (J. H. Camfield.) Those fruits are from a coastal locality, 

 and the shrubs are named obtusiflora without hesitation, but the fruits are strikingly reminiscent 

 of stricta. 



10. Fruits. Jervis Bay. (J.H.M.) These fruits arc not quite ripe, and are shrivelled. Buds pointed 

 (like virgata) ; thin rims to fruits. They certainly connect virgata and obtusiflora. 



llff. Buds; llfi, fruits; lie, fruit. Oonjola, near Milton (almost the most southerly recorded locality 

 for N.S.W.) (W. Heron.) These specimens were all taken from the same shrub ! The pointed 

 buds show transit to virgata; the fruits (11&) are nearly typical obtusiflora (5), yet they are 

 slightly urceolatc, like stricta. The fruits (lie) show, like (6), that we can have thin rim? in 

 obtusiflora. 



var. stricta. 



12. Portion of drawing of E. stricta, Sicb., taken from PL 8 of 3h'm. Fam. Myrt. par A. P. De CaudoUe. 



Via. Twig bearing buds; 136, fruits; drawing from a specimen of Sicber's type of E. stricta (No. 472). 



14. Fruits. Lawson, Blue Mountains, N.S.W. (J. H. Camfield.) These are the fruits which are as small 



as or even smaller than the type. (See 136.) 



15. Fruits. Jenolan Caves, N.S.W. (W. F. Blakely.) These arc drawn to show that the fruits of 



E. stricta may be much larger than those of the type. 



Arboreal forms of var. stricta. 

 16o. Leaf; 166, fruits. " Mountain Ash," Molong, N.S.W. (W. S. Campbell.) This appears to be an 

 arboreal form allied to E. stricta, with larger leaves and more hemispherical fruits. 



173. Juvenile leaves (note how broad they are); 176, juvenile leaves (note how narrow they are, but from 

 the same plant as 17a); 17c, buds; lid, fruits. All from the same clump of trees at Blackheath, 

 N.S.W. (R. H. Cambage and J.H.M.) These trees are of considerable size, and are in good soil 

 and in a sheltered situation. We traced all stages, from the scrubby growths on poor soil and 

 exposed situations to the larger growths with bettor soil, &c. The inflorescence is sessile, but 

 ■ the pedicel varies in various forms. 



PLATE 44. 



var. fraxinoides. 



If/. Leaf; 16, buds ; Ic, fruits; hi, fruits. All from the tyj)e of E. fraxinoides, Deaue and Maiden, and 

 collected by the describers at Tantawanglo Mountain, N.S.W. Id shows unmistakable affinity 

 to var. stricta. 



var. triflora. 



2a. Leaf; 26, fruits. A " White Ash." top of Pigeon House Mountain, South Coast, N.S.W. (R. H. 

 Cambage.) A remarkable and interesting form of this variable species. (See p. 279.) The fruits 

 are nearly spherical, and in threes. The common peduncle of the three fruits has been shown 

 too prominently in the drawing. 



E. apiculata. Baker and Smith. 

 3n. Juvenile leaves; 36, leaves in the intermediate and mature stage; 3c, anther, f>-ont and back; 3(f, 

 fruits. Near Bcrrima Coal-mine, N.S.W. (J.H.M. and J. L. Boorman.) 



E. virgata, Sieb., var. strictci, Maiden (arboreal form). 

 4a. Leaf; 46, buds; 4c, fruits. Faulconbridge, Blue Mountains, N.S.W. (R. H. Cambage and J.H.M.) 

 5a. Leaf; 56, buds; 5c, fruits. West Albion Park, near Macquarie Pass, N.S.W. (R. H. Cambage.) 



Nos. 4 and 5 are trees. They are arboreal forms of var. stricta. They resemble each 

 other, and especially No. 17, Plate 43. 



Var. stricta, although usually a shrub, becomes a nuxlium-sizcd tree when the conditions 

 are favourable. 



