235 



At p. 152, Part VI, of this work this species is referred to E. amygdalina, and 

 the determination of Sieher's No. 617 as E. salicifolia is, I believe, wrong. I give 

 the original description of E. salicifolia, as Cavanilles' work is not in New South 

 "Wales : — ■ 



" 376. Eucalyptus foliis lanceolatis, nervo dorsali insequaliter partis, altera parte versus basim 

 breviore. 



" Haec species a reliquis distinguitui 1 foliis altera parte versus basim breviori ut in Begonia et aliis 

 plantis : nervuli sunt etiani adscendentes : urnbellse 7-10 flora;, axillares." — (Cav. Icones, iv, p. 24.) 



See also Metrosideros salicifolia (Gaertn. Sem. i. p. 171, t. 34; Lamarck 

 Illustr. t. 421, f. 4). Specimens (so named) have also been recorded from "Bay of 

 Islets, Cape Grafton, Endeavour's River, Point Lookout, Possession Island," as 

 collected by Sir Joseph Banks, but I have not seen them. Por geographical reasons 

 they could not be E. amygdalina, and it is very improbable that they are E. 

 eugenioides. See also Dryander's " Chloris " (Ann. Bot. ii, 524, 1806). 



RANGE. 



It appears to be confined to eastern Victoria, New South "Wales, from south 

 to north, on the Dividing Range and its spurs, and east of them, and to southern 

 Queensland. 



Victoria. 



The Victorian forms (often referred to in the writings of Victorian botanists 

 as E. piperita), as a rule have fruits which are more or less pilular, i.e., with sunk 

 valves, thus approaching E. piperita, but the fruits appear to be never uvceolate, 

 as in that species. 



Some of them, e.g., Eureka Hill, Tinker Creek, Gippsland ; Drouin West; 

 also Osier's Creek (A. W. Howitt), have juvenile leaves which vary from narrow to 

 broadish. 



Mr. (now Dr.) A. W. Howitt wrote to me, " The White Stringybark forms 

 forests in Gippsland, for instance at Toongabbie, between Stratford and Bairnsdale, 

 Bairnsdale and Buchan at the Lakes Entrance, in Croajingolong. It also occurs 

 throughout the mountainous districts. It grows to a good size, is free from gum- 

 veins, and is a useful timber. Its western limits are probably Traralgon and 

 Woodside." 



Following are Victorian specimens in the National Herbarium, Sydney, 

 collected by Dr. Howitt. 



Macalister Paver. — Emits in heads, orifice small ; source of Wild Horse 

 Creek, 3,000 ft. ; Drouin West; Stockyard (the river banks) ; Agnes Bridge, very 

 long opercula ; '"'Yellow Stringybark," Stony Creek, Nicholson River, Bairnsdale; 

 the suckers intermediate in character. 



"A Stringybark growing in the clayey flats (post-Pliocene?) at Toongabbie, 

 near the foot of the hills. Erom a moderately large tree, say 100 ft. ' Yangoura ' 

 of the blacks " (A." W. Howitt). 



A specimen from Blackburn, near Melbourne (C. Walter) has the valves of 

 the fruits slightly exsert. 



