301 



In the " Flora Aiistraliensis," iii, p. 207, we flnd mentioned, var. laxi/lora, 

 Benth. : 



Pedicels rather lung. Fruit more obovoid, the rim more depressed. Manly Beach, Twofold Bay, 

 Camden, Macleay and Clarence. 



I have been trying to ascertain what this so-called variety really is. No 

 specimens are so labelled in the Melbourne Herbarium, although it contains 

 specimens from the Macleay and Clarence. Specimens from the other localities 

 mentioned do not, in ray opinion, answer satisfactorily to Bentham's brief 

 description. They ])robably are referable to one of the many departures from the 

 strict type of the species. Probably they are nearest to the egg-shaped fruits 

 already referred to. 



In a paper " On the essential oil and the presence of a solid camphor or 

 stearoptene in the ' Sydney Peppermint,' Eucalyj^tus piperita, Sm,"* Messrs. Baker 

 and Smith announce the discovery of a solid camphor named Eudesmol in this oil, 

 and also in the oil of E. macrorrhyncha, F.v.M. The paper does not. bear brief 

 abstraction. 



SYNONYMS. 



Metrosideros aromatica, Salisb. Prod. Slirp. in hort Chapel Allerton (1796), p. 351. 



M. foliis alternis : laminis late ovatis, acuminatis, subtus glaucis, tenuibus. Sponte nascentem juxta 

 Port Jackson legit, Dav. Burton. 



A specimen of " Metrosideros," " Peppermint tree " from Port Jackson 

 received from Banks, and now in Herb. Vindob. ex Herb. Jacq., although in leaf 

 only is E. piperita, Sm. 



[E. piperata, Stokes, in Bot. Mat. Med. iii, 69, is a misspelling of piperita. 



E. piperita var. paucijlora, DC, Prod, iii, 219, is Sieber's No. 470 = 

 E. coriacea, A. Cunn. (Hooker's Fl. Tas. i, 136)]. 



RANGE. 



This species is almost confined to New South Wales. 



North and South Coast districts ; as far north as the Myall Lakes, but the 

 northern limit is uncertain. At Bullahdelah there are many large trees of this 

 species, consequently it is not likely that this place represents its northern boundary. 



• Proc. Roy. Soc. N.S. M'., ixxi, 195 (1S97). 



