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 PLATE 118— continued. 



E. viminalis Labill. — continued. 



6. Small fruits. Anderson's Creek, Victoria.- (C. Walter.) 



7. Large fruits. Maryborough, Victoria. (J. Blackburne.) 



8a. Mature leaf and buds; 86, small fruit, tips of valves scarcely exsert. The beaked operculum specimen 

 is the var. rhynchocorys, F.v.M., but it is not uncommon in the species (compare 36 of this Plate, 

 also 5a of Plate 119). Snowy River. (Mueller.) 



9a. Mature leaf; 96, inflorescence, of var. racemosa, F.v.M. Port Phillip, Victoria. (Mueller.) 



10a. Mature leaf ; 106, buds (ten in the head!) Turpentine — Nowra Road, New South Wales. (J.L. Boorman.) 



11. Fruits with the valves fully exsert, even more so than those of E. cruciralris F.v.M. (See figure 8 of 

 Plate 117). Tumut, New South Wales. (A. Murphy.) 



12a. Buds while the leaves are still in the juvenile stage (126, buds a little further advanced.) Sassafras — 

 Nowra Road, New South Wales. (J. L. Boorman.) 



13. Fruits, while the leaves are still in the juvenile stage. Cooma, New South Wales. (J. L. Boorman.) 



PLATE 119. 



E. viminalis Labill. 



la. 16. le. Juvenile leaves, still in the opposite stage. Cox's River, New South Wales. (R. H. Cambage 

 and J.H.M.) Note the remarkable variation in the width and size of the leaves. These, and 

 others, were collected from the same tree, and attached to the sheet of specimens is a statement, 

 signed by Mr. Cambage and myself, certifying to authenticity of the specimens and their 

 remarkable character. 



2. Large juvenile leaves. Bathurst to Sofala,.New South Wales. (R. H. Cambage and J.H.M.) 



3. Stem-clasping juvenile leaves. Sunny Corner, New South Wales. (J. L. Boorman.) 



4. Wide-mouthed fruits, llford to Capertee, New South Wales. (A. Murphy.) 



5a. Buds with long-pointed opercula; 56, fruit. Bathurst, New South Wales. (H.G.Smith.) 



G. Juvenile leaves. Piri Brush, Upper Hunter, New South Wales. (Leichhardt, January, 1843.) 



7. Fruits in more than threes. Moonan Flat, Upper Hunter, New South Wales. (J.H.M. and J.L. Boorman.) 



8. Buds, numerous in head, pointed opercula. Myrtle Scrub to Yarrowitch, New England, New South 



Wales. (J.H.M.) 



9. Oval buds. Summit of hill 3 miles east of Tia, towards Walcha, New Soutli Wales. (J.H.M.) 



10. Pointed buds, with rather long pedicels. Walcha Road, New South Wales. (J. F. Campbell.) 



11a. Juvenile leaves, still in the opposite stage; 116, remarkably large leaf, still in the opposite stage, 

 although the opposite leaf is not shown; lie, fruits, which are on the previous year's wood. 

 Parish of Royinn, county Parry, New South Wales. (E. H. F. Swain.) This shows, in a remaikable 

 manner, how great the variation may be in the juvenile leaves of this species. Such leaves could 

 certainly not be termed " narrow." 



12a. Mature leaf; 126, small buds (more than threes); 12c, small fruits. Salisbury Plains, Uralla, New 

 South Wales. (T. G. Adamson.) 



13. Fruits (more than threes). Glen Innes, New South Wales. (J. L. Boorman.) 



14a. Buds with pointed 'opercula (compare figure 8a, Plate 118); 146, very large fruits, with espacially 

 exserted valves. Glen Innes, New South Wales. (H. Deane.) 



