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CCII. E. numerosa Maiden. 



Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W. xxix, 752 (1904). 



The synonymy is as follows. It has been so fully described and illustrated at the places 

 cited, that there should be no difficulty whatever now in recognising the species. 



E . amygdalina Lab. var. radiata Benth. (B.F1. iii, 203) in part, but not E. radiata 



Sieb. 

 See also Deane and Maiden, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W. xx, p. 603, with Plate LVI 



(1895). 

 E. numerosa Maiden in Part xvii, p. 146, of my " Forest Flora of N.S.W.," with 



Plate 66 (1905). 

 E . amygdalina Labill. var. numerosa Maiden, " Crit. Rev." VI, 155, with fig. 1, 

 Plate 30 (1905). 

 I did wrong in temporarily suppressing E. numerosa; it is a distinct species. 

 This step originally arose through accepting the view of Bentham (B.F1. iii, 203) that 

 E. radiata included the plant which we now know as E. numerosa. 



RANGE. 



See Part VI, pp. 161-2, of the present work. It has not since been found out 



of Victoria and New South Wales. The following localities are additional to those 



previously quoted. 



Victoria. 



Foot of Mount Macedon (E. Cheel). Gisborne (J. Staer). Kilmore (Rev. J. W. 

 Dwyer, No. 1023). Boggy Creek, Buchan-road (J.H.M.). 



' : Rough bark on base of bole to 12-20 feet up, then clean, smooth bark, with 

 thin ribbons of old bark hanging to branches. Graceful pendulous branchlets and 

 foliage. Not a very large tree. Mostly small trees. Leaves of saplings also very 

 narrow, and on young saplings narrow, opposite and sessile. Locally known as 

 ' Peppermint Gum.' Owing to its weeping habit of growth it rather resembles the 

 Blackbutt of E. Gippsland (E. pilularis)." Genoa township (H. Hopkins). 



"Slender somewhat pendulous branchlets and very narrow leaves, on both 

 saplings and old trees. Bark on lower part of bole scaly-rough, and upper part of 

 stem and branches quite smooth, with old bark peeling off in thin ribbony flakes. 

 Wood full of gum, soft and inferior." In the rich bottom ground along the Cann River 



(H. Hopkins). . 



New South Wales. 

 Southern localities.- — " Peppermint," sometimes called " Messmate." Laurel 

 Hill, Tumberumba (W. Kopsen). " Narrow-leaved Messmate." Attains a height of 



