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 PLATE 100. 



E. saligna Sm. (1-7). 



1. Conoid fruits, "Blue Gum." Booral, N.S.W. (A. Rudder.) This is a puzzling transition form 



between the normal and var. pallidivalvis. 

 2a. Buds (reminiscent of those of E. botryoides) ; 26, fruits. Barrengarry Mountain, 5 miles from 



Kangaroo Valley township, N.S.W. (R. H. Cambage and J.H.M.) 

 3a. Mature leaf ; 36, small buds ; 3c, small fruits, with well exserted valves. Foot of Mt. Lindsay, 



Macpherson Range, N.S.W. (W. Forsyth.) (Compare the form intermediate between 



E. saligna and E. Beanei Maiden, from Jilliby Jilliby, N.S.W.) 

 4a. Intermediate leaf j 46, mature leaf ; 4c, buds ; id, fruits. Acacia Creek, Macpherson Range. 



(W. Dunn.) 

 5a. Buds and flowers ; 56, fruits, tips of valves almost awl-shaped. Moona Flains, Walcha, N.S.W. 



(A. R. Crawford.) 

 6a. Buds ; 66, fruits, Spit Road, Mosman, Sydney. (W. Forsyth.) Thought to connect E. botryoides 



with E. saligna. 

 la. Buds, with very pointed operculum ; 76, small fruits. Walcha. (J. B. Croft.) Another northern 



form, with pointed buds and smalt shiny fruits. Connecting with E. Beanei Maiden. 



E. saligna Sm., var. pallidivalvis Baker and Smith (8-13). 



8. Intermediate leaf, " Flooded Gum." Richmond River, N.S.W. (A. W. Deane.) (I received foliage 



only.) 

 9a and 96. Mature leaves ; 9c, buds ; 9d and 9e, fruits ; 9/ and 9g, front and back views of anther. 

 Booral, N.S.W. (A. Rudder.) 

 10. Short, thick sessile buds. Alstonville, N.S.W. (W. Baeuerlen.) 

 11a. Pedicellate buds ; 1 1 6, small sessile fruits. Lismore, N.S.W. (W. Baeuerlen.) 



12. Fruits. Note the slightly urceolate shape, the sharp inflexed valve tips, usually five, characteristic 



of this variety. Sydney district. (George Caley, 1800-10.) 



13. Fruits. Moonee, Woolgoolga, N.S.W. (E. H. F. Swain.) Note urceolate shape. (The buds and 



fruits are usually glaucous.) 



