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those of the Hill-top Blue-leaf Stringy bark, just referred to. The " bluish tint " of 

 the leaves is also similar. Buds stellate, and strongly resemble those of E. eugenioides 

 when young ; coarse and angular like those of E. capitellata when more mature. 



The following two specimens are instructive : — ■ 



(a) Berrima, September, 1901 (J.1I.M. and J. L. Boorman). — Here wc have 

 fruits very similar to those of E. capitellata from "VVingello, 8/99 (J. L. 

 Boorman), and if not identical with them then intermediate between E. 

 eugenioides and E. capitellata. 



(b) Then wc have a second scries of specimens from Berrima, 9/01 (J.H.M. 



and J. L. Boorman), with the buds eugenioides-Yikc and with the fruit 

 hemispherical and capitcllate. Figures will explain these two forms, which 

 seem to be intermediate between eugenioides and capitellata. I place (a) 

 with E. capitellata and (b) with E. eugenioides. (See fig. 7, pi. 3S.) 



Western Localities. — I now turn to a form which may provisionally be 

 referred to as the Blue Mountains form of the species, because it is so readily studied 

 there, but it also occurs coastwards and southwards. 



The following account * was prepared by Mr. B. H. Cambage and myself 

 (only an unimportant addition has been made) : — 



We now draw attention to a Eucalypt from the Blue Mountains, which has almost invariably gone 

 under the name of E. capitellata, So)., but which is worthy of special remark. 



Bark. — Not a perfect Stringybark, as compared, e.g., with mic.rorrhyncha, which is more fibrous. 

 The more fibrous bark is yellowish ; close to the wood it is white. Has clean limbs, at times slightly 

 ribbony. 



Reference to the bark being not a typical Stringybark is borne out by the Mount Wilson name, 

 which is Messmate. Mr. H. Deane, at Blackheath, some years ago, called it a Peppermint bark, and 

 suggested hybridism. 



On a specimen from Jenolan Caves, the collector (W. F. Blakely) has a note, " Bark on the lower 

 portion of the stem light reddish-brown in colour, resembling Stringybark ; uppsr portion, grey ; branches, 

 yellowish-green." 



Timber.— Brownish. 



JuviMlile Leaves. — The margins undulate, and with a reddish rim when fresh. The leaves 

 roughish, particularly on the lower side, owing to the presence of stellate hairs which arc also on the edges 

 of the leaves and on the twigs. 



In the intermediate stage they are i?M^«)ua-like and shining on both sides, only very slightly 

 darker on the upper side. 



The branches are brittle and appear to bo much less fibrous than those of E. eugenioides in the 

 vicinity. 



Mature Leaves.— Resemble those of typical E. capitellata. 



Buds. — Clavate. Mount Wilson specimens, and others from the higher parts of the Blue 

 Mountains, show the buds rugose, after the fashion, though not so well marked, as some from Victoria. 



Flowers. — Anthers reniform. 



Fruits. — Packed in a dense head ; often white dotted. In the ripe fruits valves well exsert, 

 rather more so than in E. macrorrhynclia. Indeed, the Rev. Dr. Woolls labelled the Mount Wilson 

 specimens E. maerorrhytveha. 



In that species, however, the rim remains domed in mature fruits, while in this Blue Mountains 

 form of E. capitellata the rim is turned outwards till it becomes almost a continuation of the calyx. 



• Proc. Linn. Soc. N.8. W., 1905, p. 193. 



