DESCRIPTION. 



CCCLII. E. fastigata Deane and Maiden. 



In Proc. Linn. Soc, N.S.W*, xxx, S09, with Plate lxi (1896). 



See also Part VII, p. 185, of the present work, where the description is printed, 

 and where the species is looked upon as a form of E. regnans F.v.M., but not described 

 as a variety. At the same time, some specimens have been issued from the National 

 Herbarium, Sydney, under the name of E. regnans var. fastigata, in the ordinary way 

 of exchange. 



I for a long time looked upon E. fastigata as an environmental form of E. 

 regnans, but after further travel and examination of specimens, and consultation 

 with other botanists, I have come to the conclusion that they are distinct species. 

 See '' Affinities." 



Mr. Harry Hopkins, speaking of the jungle near Bendoc, north-eastern 

 Gippsland, says this species has leaves the thinnest, most translucent and of the palest 

 green that he has found in the district. The leaves of both it and E. regnans are always 

 thin. 



Illustrations. — It seems to have been sufficiently figured in Part VII, Plate 33, 

 as follows : — Figures 3, 6, 6a (exceptionally flat-topped), 7,8,9. In addition, the 

 buds lb, and the fruits lc, belong to E. fastigata. They were collected at Monga, near 

 Braidwood (W. Baeuerlen), but were in error cited as from the Dandenong, Victoria, 

 where Figs. 1 and la, type of E. regnans, came from. All the rest of the figures on this 

 Plate belong to E. regnans, and it will be observed that while (see below) a general 

 character of the fruit of E. fastigata is domedness, in comparison with the truncateness 

 of that of E. regnans, specimens occasionally occur which render this differentiation 

 exceedingly difficult. 



RANGE. 



It is a tree of comparatively cool, mountain localities, and appears to be confined 

 to eastern Gippsland (Victoria) and to the tablelands of New South Wales. The type 

 comes from Tantawanglo Mountain, near Cathcart, Bombala district, N.S.W. 



