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a very unusual circumstance in a Eucalypt, and the leaves are alternate, and not opposite as in the case of 

 normal Sluarliana. The average size of the young leaves is If x |- inch. Turning to the mature foliage, 

 it is lanceolate, the average size of the leaves being 2 J. x h inch. The foliage is not glaucous in any part, 

 not even the sucker foliage. The tree attains a size of 2 or 3 feet in diameter. I traced it from 

 5 miles east of Yarrowitch to at least as far west as Tia. Mr. 4-- R- Crawford has sent it to me from 

 Moona Plains, in the Walcha district. Mr. Henry Deane has collected it near Glen Innes. (Proc. Aust. 

 Ass. Alv. Sdence, vii, 542, 1S98.) 



Speaking o£ New England, Mr. J. E. Campbell writes, this is the ' : Scrub or 

 narrow-leaved Peppermint," confined chiefly to the plateau scrubs of the higher 

 altitudes, country generally of cold soils and difficult to improve. 



A specimen from the Dividing Range towards the Gloucester, Leicliharclt, 

 with the same foliage, with young buds like those of E. crebra, but with very small 

 globular-truncate fruits, scarcely contracted at the orifice (B.EI. iii, 222, under 

 E. crebra), seems to me to be E. acaciceformis. 



The following are additional localities in the National Herbarium, Sydney : — ■ 



Guy Eawkes (J. L. Boorman) ; Baker's Creek to Chandler River, Armidale 

 district (A. W. Howitt) ; Parish of Scott, County of Parry (E. H. E. Swain); 

 " Black Peppermint," Parish Vernon, County Perry (M. II. Simon) ; Eoot of Mount 

 Spiraby, 2 miles east, Tenterfield district (J.H.M.) ; Boonoo Boonoo, 12 miles north- 

 east of Tenterfield (B. H. Cambagc). 



AFFINITIES. 



E. acaciceformis has no very close affinities so far as we know at present, so 

 that further enquiry is necessary. 



1. "With E. cinerea E.v.M, var. nova-anglica Maiden (E. nova-anglica, Deane 



and Maiden). 



The bark and timber are similar; I cannot indicate any important difference 

 between them. The two trees grow together, Compare Plate 90 (Part xxi). The 

 juvenile leaves sharply separate them. 



2. With E. parvifolia Cambago. 



There is some resemblance to this species. I will refer to the matter when 

 I figure E. parvifolia. E, acaciceformis has a rough bark, while that of E, parvifolia 

 is smooth. 



Variety, 



Variety linearis, Deane and Maiden (loc. cit.). 



The Eucalypt referred to as No. 4 at p. 542, Vol. vii, Proc, dust. Ass, Adv. 

 Science (1898). 



A singularly graceful tree, reminding one of a Weeping Willow, Height about 50 foet, and trunk 

 diameter 2 feet, as far as seen. 



The twigs are slender, a characteristic of the tree being the smallness and the grace cf its parts. 

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