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RANGE. 



It is confined to New South Wales, and, so far as we know at present, to poor 

 sandstone areas in the higher parts of the Blue Mountains, and west of Dapto, on the 

 South Coast line. 



It is a shrub of 5 or G feet, forming a dense shrubby growth at Wentworth Falls, 

 Blue Mountains, developing into a small Stringybark tree. 



Mr. R. H. Cambage has also collected it on a sandstone plateau about 1,700 

 feet high at West Dapto, about 60 miles south of Sydney. His note is : Dwarf Stringy- 

 bark, growing somewhat as a Mallee. Height, 2 feet 9 inches." 



AFFINITIES. 



With E. eugenioides Sieber. 



The seedlings and juvenile leaves of E. ligustrina are on a diminutive scale as 

 compared with those of E. eugenioides, but display an affinity with that species; indeed 

 the nearest affinity of E. ligustrina is to E. eugenioides. The juvenile leaves of 

 E. ligustrina are remarkably variable in shape (see the Plate in Proc. Linn. Soc. 

 N.S.W., 1898, No. xxxiii). Both are Stringybarks and both are well covered with 

 stellate hairs. E. ligustrina has not been found to attain the dignity of a large tree. 



