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CCIl. E. numerosa Maiden. 



See Part XXXVIII, p. 233, where the synonomy is set out. 



The plant noted as E. radiata Sieb., by Messrs. Baker and Smith (" Research," 

 2nd Edn., p. 306), with a figure of an umbel of pyriform fruits and called " White Top 

 Peppermint or River White Gum " is E. numerosa, a very characteristic graceful tree, 

 with ribbony bark used as tying material by the blacks. It is found on river banks 

 and hill-sides. It has fruits more numerous and more pyriform than E. radiata. I 

 have sufficiently characterised E. numerosa, where quoted above, and well know my 

 own species both in the bush and in the herbarium. It is quite obvious that Mr. Baker 

 has confused mv E. numerosa with the older E. radiata. 



