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Fruits. — In shape not dissimilar to those of the normal species, but rather smaller in size. 



Each individual fruit about 7; v of an inch in diameter; the whole packed into a head (consisting 

 usually of 7 to 9 fruits) about half an inch in diameter. For figure of another head-fruited form of 

 E. eugenioides, see No. 5, PI. LX, 1896. 



Height — 5 or 6 feet, forming a dense scrubby growth. 



— Although we have only found it at King's Tableland, Wentwortk Falls, we think it very likely 

 that further search will reveal its presence in other exposed situations on the Blue Mountains. 



This is the original description of E. eugenioides Sieber var. nana Deane and 

 Maiden, in Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., xxiii, 799 (1898), with Plate xxxiii. See also 

 my note in Proc. Roy. Soc. N.S.W., Hi, 501 (1918). 



I match a specimen, Lawson, Blue Mountains (J. H. Camfield, April, 1897), 

 quite satisfactorily with the type of E. ligustrina, and it has fruits which connect it with 

 those of the type of E. eugenioides var. nana. Mr. A. A. Hamilton, with specimens 

 from King's Tableland (home of the type ef the latter), has shown that it attains a height 

 in that locality of 15 feet, and that it is a Stringybark. Its size is obviously a question 

 of shelter. Some of the adult leaves from both Dapto and the Blue Mountains shew 

 that the name ligustrina (Privet- or liguslntm-hskxed) has some appropriateness. 



SYNONYMS. 



1. E. eugenioides Sieber, var. nana Deane and Maiden (already referred to). 



2. E. oleifolia Allan Cunningham (probably). 



In his MSS. Journal I find the following entries : — 



(a) At page 6 : r ' Blackheath, 5th October, 1822, operculo hemispherico foliis 

 (parvis) ellipticis ovali-lanceolatisve mucronatis acutiplanis, umbelhs axillaribus pedi- 

 cellatis 9-10 floris. A low shrub 2 feet high." 



(b) "A low shrub 1-2 feet high, verge of Regent's Glen." This is probably 

 also E. eugenioides var. nana. I have very little doubt, but I have not seen specimens. 



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