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National Park. The original drawing was endorsed " identical with E. virgata var. 

 altior, Blackheath, J.H.M., January, 1905," by the artist, in which I concurred, and 

 therefore a separate drawing was not made, in either plate, for the sucker leaves of 

 E. oreades (E. virgata or E. Luehmanniana var. altior). 



The width of the rim of the fruit is an important character, not brought out in 

 the original figure, but shown in fig. 20 of Plate XXXIII, bis, of Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., 

 XXII, by Messrs. Deane and Maiden in 1897, and better still in the Plates 44 and 98 

 just quoted. 



I am of opinion that the tree, a supposed hybrid of E. stricta, collected by Mr. 

 Cambage and myself at Blackheath, Blue Mountains, and a photograph of which is 

 shown in Part XXV of my " Forest Flora of New South Wales," is a depauperate form 

 of E. oreades. It grows on the thinly covered sandstone rock, and not on the tree- 

 loving deep soil of the taluses or sides of gullies; also, its fruit is not ripe, although 

 riper than that of the type specimens of E. oreades. This is cursorily referred to at 

 Part IX, p. 283, of the present work, and the material available is fully described by 

 Mr. Cambage and myself in Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W ., xxx, p. 199 (1905), under the 

 letter A. 



SYNONYMS. 



1. E. Luehmanniana F.v.M., var. altior Deane and Maiden, in Proc. Linn. Soc. 



N.S.W. , xx, 713, 1897. 



2. E. virgata Sieb., var. altior Deane and Maiden ; this work, Part IX, p. 288, 



1907. 



RANGE. 



It is confined to New South Wales, so far as we know at present. It is found in 

 the valleys or on the taluses of the hills of the Blue Mountain Kange from Springwood 

 higher. It has also been found at Hill Top on the Southern Line, and doubtless will be 

 abundantly found in the mountainous country between these two districts. Then we 

 have it at Mount Warning on the Tweed, and intermediate localities remain to be found. 

 It probably will be found on the highest parts of Southern Queensland. 



'' This tree so far has only been found at the heads of gullies on the Blue Mountains, 

 at the foot of precipitous sandstone cliffs, and always near the foot of waterfalls on the 

 edge of the pools." (Original description.* 



