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specimens, placed under E. stricta (arboreal form). The plant that Sir Joseph Hooker 

 gathered on the road from Sydney to Botany Bay in 1841 is E. obtusi flora DC, which 

 is very close to E. stricta and which has been labelled " E. slricta var. " by Mueller and 

 many others. 



Nothing more can be said in regard to t, 7074, unless the locality whence the seed 

 was obtained can be traced. 



SYNONYM. 



E. virgata Sieb. var. Stricta Maiden, in my " Morost Flora of New South Wales,"' 

 xxv, 80 ( 1907) See also at Part IX. p. 277, of the present work. 



RANGE. 



It has not hitherto been found out of New South Wales. It is a denizen of sterile 

 rocky country, in its normal, shrubby form, but it attains greater height in the better 

 soil and more sheltered situations of the taluses of some mountain localities. It has 

 not hitherto been found near the sea-level, though it should be looked for (it may possibly 

 be confused with E. obtusi 'flora DC.) towards the Victorian border. It occurs in the 

 mountainous country from the Braidwood district to the Blue Mountains; roughly 

 the localities may be separated into south and north, as follows : — 



Southern localities.— The only species of Eucalyptus found on the summit of 

 Currockbilly. A small Malice-like growth of 3-5 feet, plentiful on the western slope 

 in a permanently wet bog. Currockbilly Mountain, near Braidwood (J. L. Boorman). 



Rarely reaches beyond 12 feet in height. Nerriga, about half-way on the Nowra- 

 Braidwood road (J. L. Boorman). 



About 4 to 7 feet high, on sandstone. Top of Table Mountain, west of Milton 

 (R. H. Cambage. No. 763). 



Talwong, 5 miles as the crow flies from Tallong, but on the opposite side of the 

 Shoalhaven River. Said to be rare locally (A. Rumsey). 



Top of mountain, about 1,700 feet above sea-level. Hawkesbury sandstone, 

 West Dapto (R. H. Cambage). 



Top of sandstone peak, Bindook road. Yerranderie (R. H. Cambage, No. 2195), 

 Thi« is westerly of the above localities. 



