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We can now branch to the south. 



Southern New South Wales. — We now travel south and find that there is variation 



in this species, which seems to be capable of grouping, chiefly obvious in the size of the 

 fruits. Let me briefly discuss some of the specimens in detail : — 



Waterfall (J.H.M.). Intermediate leaves coriaceous, glabrous, buds stellate; 

 fruits small, capitate. 



Woronora (F. W. Wakefield No. 4). Same as Waterfall. Buds slightly glaucous. 

 Compare Gosford. 



Cobbity, banks of Nepean, near Camden (J.H.M.). Bluish cast of young foliage. 

 Buds largish; fruits hemispherical, slightly pedicellate. 



" Stringybark, like E. eugenioides, 150 yards north of hotel ; Yerranderie (R. H. 

 Cambage, No. 2,197). Juvenile leaves (upper part of trunk) lanceolate, glabrous; 

 buds brown, stellate; fruits medium-sized fully ripe and valves well exsert. (Like 

 Clyde Mountain, Baeuerlen). 



" Blue-leaf Stringybark," Hill Top (J.H.M.). Juvenile leaves like those of 

 Nelligen. The juvenile leaves precisely match those from Mt. Spiraby, near Tenter- 

 field (J.H.M.). I had already pointed out (Part VIII, p. 215) that they also precisely 

 match those of what may be termed the Blue Mountains form of E. capitellata (infra. 

 p. 216) (This is now E. Blaxlandi, of course.) The fruits and juvenile foliage are figured 

 at 6a and 66, Plate 38, and a note on them will be found at p. 215 of Part VIII. The 

 fruits are in spherical clusters, and I suggested that this form might be intermediate 

 between E. capitellata and E. eugenioides, which, although a view I do not hold now, 

 is one that had some acceptance at the time. 



Hill Top, buds brown, stellate; also summit of Mount Jellore (both E. Cheel), 

 Buds and fruits like Wombeyan Caves. 



1. Berrima (J.H.M. and J. L. Boorman, September, 1901). Intermediate leaves 

 like Clyde Mountain, Baeuerlen. Buds brown, stellate. Fruits varying in sizo and 

 rim a little. 



2. Berrima, on the Mittagong road (D. W. C. Shiress, 1919, 1920). Suckers 

 or intermediate leaves lanceolate to ovate and nearly orbicular, glabrous ; buds rounded, 

 stellate; fruits small to smallish, capitate. 



No. 1 specimens were noted at p. 216, Part VIII, and figures la and lb of Plate 

 38. Chiefly on consideration of the fruits, they were looked upon as a small fruited form 

 of E. capitellata, or at all events, intermediate between that species and E. eugenioides. 



Bowral to Bullio ; also Wombeyan Caves, Taralga road (R. H. Cambage, J.H.M.) . 

 Juvenile leaves broad, undulate, hairy, precisely like Nelligen. More advanced juvenile 

 leaves are scabrous, broadly ovate, cordate, precisely like those of the New England 

 tableland and those in the neighbourhood of the New South Wales-Queensland border. 

 Buds yellowish to brownish, rounded to pointed like " tip-cats"; fruits with valves 

 exsert and medium in size. 



