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Flowers. — The flowers are usually borne in great profusion, with bright 

 yellow filaments. Stamens apparently all fertile and inflected in the bud ; anthers 

 with parallel, distinct cells, style of moderate length, the stigma nearly flat-topped 

 and dilated a little, the appearance of the dilatation being increased by the con- 

 striction caused by the drying of the filament. 



Fruits. — Variable somewhat in size, but always under a quarter of an inch in 

 diameter; usually glaucous, but sometimes entirely glabrous. In shape nearly 

 hemispherical, with a well-defined more or less domed rim ; the valves, which are 

 indifferently three or four in number, exserted, and sometimes well exserted. 



Size. — " A healthy mature tree seldom exceeds 6 feet in girth, after which it 

 becomes a shell of much larger proportions, and grows to a height of some 50 feet 

 and more." (J.E.C.) 



RANGE. 



This variety appears to be confined to New England, New South Wales, and 

 the extension of that elevated tableland into Southern Queensland. 



" Black Peppermint." Walcha and New England generally (J. F. 

 Campbell); Bergen-op-Zoom and Walcha. (J.H.M.) ; Yarrowitch to Tia and 

 Walcha (J.H.M.) . 



Besides " Black Peppermint " this species also goes under the name of " Bed 

 Peppermint" in New England. Mr. J. E. Campbell, of Walcha, tells me that it 

 grows on slate and basaltic flats of fair quality of soil. It prefers the clay soil 

 derived from the siluriau slate to that of the heavier basalt on the lighter granite. 

 I have seen large quantities of manna produced by this variety. 



" The timber of this species is very good as posts, but apt to split in 

 seasoning. A dead tree, apparently quite sound when cut through the sap timber, 

 has Oteacks running into the heartwood. At the Int. Exh., 1879, I exhibited a piece 

 of a post made of a young tree of this species 10 inches in diameter. The log was 

 split in halves and used for posts. It had been erected about 184-4, and was quite 

 sound when dug up." (A. B. Crawford, Moona Plains, in lift.) 



Tree of about 50 feet. Bark grey, and of " box " character, up to small 

 branches, which are smooth. Between the Chandler and the Styx Bivers, Armidale 

 district. (A. W. Howitt.) 



Langothlin, near Guyra. (W. Dunn.) 



"Bed or Black Peppermint." Tingha to Guyra, 21 miles from the latter, 

 and thence very abundant on flats and level land (R. H. Cambage, J. L. Boorman, 

 and J.H.M.). 



