297 

 138. E. Perriniana F.v.M. 



Tasmania. — A planted tree at Ellislea, on the Dee, was (March, 1918) bearing fruit in an extra- 

 ordinary quantity rarely seen in the genus. It is semi-pendulous, and the branches brittle ; the timber 

 is, therefore, inferior in value. Purplish glaucous branchlets, diameter 2 ft. 6 in. ; height 50 feet. On 

 the Strickland it grows on poor sandy soil and is scrubby, rarely attaining the size of the Ellislea tree. 

 (Maiden in Pap. d- Proc. Roy. Soc., Tas., 1918, p. 86.) 



Eight Mile, near Kiandra, at above 5,000 feet. Lobb's Hole Koad (W. A. W. 

 de Beuzeville, August, 1922). 



124. E. phwnicea F.v.M. 

 Northern Territory.— Fine Creek (C. E. F. Allen, No. 470). 



1. E. pilularis Sm. 



Victoria. — Having re-examined the Victorian specimen that Mr. Baker (Rep. Aust. Assoc. Adv. 

 Science, xiv, 305, 1913) quotes on my authority (Part I, p. 38), I withdraw it, believing it to be E. Mnelleriana , 

 Howitt. It is, however, not quite satisfactory. Professor Ewart informs me, on Mr. St. John's authority, 

 that the specimen attributed to that gentleman was taken from a tree growing in the Melbourne Botanic 

 Gardens. But Professor Ewart also sends me, for examination, a specimen of E. pilularis collected at 

 National Park, Sealer's Cove. Wilson's Promontory (J. W. Audas and P. R. H. St. John, 22nd October, 

 1909), which, although incomplete, is, in my view, sufficient to validate record of the species as Victorian, 

 Professor Ewart also thinks that the McAlister River record (Mueller, B. Fl. iii, 208) is probably correct, 

 although the specimen has disappeared from the Melbourne Herbarium. The most southern New South 

 Wales record for E. pihilaris known to me is Mogo, near Moruya, and it is hoped that specimens will be 

 collected to connect this with the Victorian one. (J. H. M. in Joum. Roy. Soc, Vic. xxxiv, N.S., 79, 1921.) 



Northern New South Wales. — We noticed that this species favours the cool or south side of the ridges 

 and mountain spurs, and at the same time keeps well up on the ridges, sometimes capping them. Where 

 a gorge is narrow and deep it descends to the lowest level, and it is in such situations that the largest 

 specimens are seen. A belt of this timber skirts the south side of Blount Mullengen 1 miles north of 

 Copmanhurst, and another belt extends from Sugarloaf, 5 miles south-west of Ramornie, for a couple of 

 miles along the ranges to the south of Sugarloaf. (Blakely and Shiress.) 



var. yyriformis Maiden. 



Large trees, similar in appearance to E. pilularis, and at the same time growing alongside the normal 

 form. Trunk half-barked, the lower portion Peppermint-like, but of a more flaky nature, the remainder 

 of trunk and branches smooth and white, splashed with very pale green streaks. Young tips or young 

 branchlets more or less glaucous. Half way up and on the top of Mount Mullengen, i miles north of 

 Copmanhurst, also on a ridge about half a mile south east of the Mount. (The same.) 



I still am unable to say that the morphological differences already observed 

 between this variety and the normal species constitute a new species, but I by no means 

 say that the differences will always be considered of varietal rank. 



32. E. piperita Sm. 

 It was collected by J. Backhouse in 1835, No. 249. As regards its claim to be 

 a Victorian species (see Part X, pp. 300, 302, 304), I think it is a doubtful Victorian 

 plant at present. (See also my " Forest Flora of New South Wales," Part xxxiii, p. 38, 

 Plate 124, 1909). 



