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 Variety angustifolia, Benth. 



Leaves narrow, very thick and smooth, scarcely showing the venation. — (B.FL iii, 201.) 



This form occurs in the highest parts of the Blue Mountains, also in the 

 southern ranges, e.g., near Braidwood, often occurring with the normal form. 



The variety angustifolia is usually shrubhy, hut it grows into a small tree. 



In the highest parts of the Blue Mountains it has the fruits sometimes in 

 dense glohular umbels. 



2. E. microphylla, A. Cunn. 



Foliis lineari-lanceolatis subfalcatis acutis: margine incrassatis, umbellis multifloris foliisque confertis, 

 Forming brushes upon the more elevated parts of the (Blue) Mountains. — (Field's New South Wales. 

 p. 350.) 



In Allan Cunningham's MS. Journal under date 9th April, 1817, "we find 

 the entry : — " King's Table-land.* — This exposed situation is covered with a shrub 

 of the Eucalyptus (E. microphylla), forming thick brushes of underwood." 



On a specimen of E. stellulata, Sieb., var. angustifolia, Benth., collected by 

 himself, Allan Cunningham has the label — " Eucalyptus, apparently E. punctata, 

 Sieb. DC. King's Table-land, N. S. Wales, 1827, A.C." showing that he was 

 uncertain as to the designation of the form. 



3. E. Cunninghamii, Sweet. 

 The meagre description is :— 



46. Cunninghamii (white), N.S.W., 1825. Greenhouse shrub. Microphylla, F. T. non Link 

 (Sweet Hort. Brit. ed. 2, page 209). 



4. E. Cunninghamii, G. Don. 



Leaves linear-lanceolate, rather falcate, acute, with thickened margins ; umbels many-flowered, and 

 are as well as the leaves, crowded. Native of New Holland, forming bushes upon the more elevated 

 of the mountains. E. microphylla, Cunningham in Field's New South Wales, p. 350. Cunningham's 

 Eucalyptus, Cult. 1824, Shrub. — (Gen. Syst. ii, 821.) 



Bentham (B.Fl. iii, 821) has already pointed out that Cunningham's specimens 

 of E. microphylla consist of a mixture of leaves of the narrow-leaved form of 

 E. stellulata and of E. stricta, Sieb. 



It is often impossible to separate the narrow-leaved forms of these species 

 when foliage is alone available. The same remarks apply to Sweet's and G. Don's 

 species. 



* Near the modern Wentworth Falls. 



