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Northern Localities. — " Peppermint," 2 feet diameter, 80 to 100 feet. Head 

 of Warrah Creek (Jesse Gregson) ; Moonan Fiats (J. L. Boorman, J.H.M.) ; 

 " Peppermint," 4 feet diameter, 40 feet high. Parish Vernon, County Parry 

 (M. H. Simon) ; Tingha (J. L. Boorman) ; Howell (J. L. Boorman, J.H.M.) ; 3 

 miles from Inverell on Howell-Tingha Road as soon as granite is reached. Takes 

 the place of White Box {E. hemiphloia var. albens) on granite. Emmaville (J. L. 

 Boorman). 



" The ' White Peppermint ' grows on many of the slaty ridges around 

 Walcha (Silurian). It is not abundant, and is of no commercial value, although 

 sometimes used for fencing in the absence of better material. The timber, which 

 is pale red in colour when fresh, is soft and liable to decay ; it is also liable to the 

 ravages of the white ant. The tree grows to an average height of 40 feet, with an 

 average girth of about 8 feet. It is often gnarled and stunted, and generally has the 

 appearance of being elbowed out of existence by E. eugenioides with which it 

 shares the ridges. The bark is semi-persistent and faintly regular throughout, 

 shedding its waste material in a kind of whitish flaky dust." (J. F. Campbell, 

 Walcha.) 



" White Peppermint," Armidale district (A. E. Stopford) ; 30-40 feet. 

 Box bark up to small branches. Wollomumbi River (A. W. Howitt) ; Tenterfield 

 to Sandy Plat (J.H.M.); Drake-Tenterfield (A. G. Hagmau) ; Timbarra (C. Stuart) ; 

 "White Box," Cottesbrooke, near Tenterfield (J.H.M.). 



Queensland. 

 " Peppermint," Stanthorpe (Rev. J. H. Simmonds, J. L. Boorman). 



AFFINITIES. 



1. With E. einerea E.v.M. var. multiflora (see Part XXI, p. 4, of the present 

 work) . 



The more closely these two species are studied, the more evident it becomes 

 that they have many points in common. Mr. 11. T. Baker, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S. W '., 

 xxv, 667, is of opinion that E. Stuartiana {Bridgesiana), whose bark yields an 

 oil, differs in this respect from E. einerea (formerly Stuartiana, partim) It 

 should, however, be pointed out that Mr. C. Ealck calls the latter tree " Turpentine 

 tree," by reason of the fact that there is oil in the bark of that species also. 

 Eucalyptographia, under E. pulverulenta [einerea). 



Plate 101 {Stuartiana) should be compared with Plate 89 {einerea var. 

 multiflora). The juvenile leaves of the two forms are not very dissimilar, but the 

 leaves of the latter are often broader and shorter, while those of E. Stuartiana often 



