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XV. E. Andrew si Maiden. 



See the present work, Part VII, p. 194, Plate 36 ; also my " Forest Flora of New 

 South Wales," Part XXI, p. 5, with Plate 79. 



Although this is commonly known as " Blackbutt," and I have, therefore, to 

 save confusion, proposed the name " New England Blackbutt " for it, it also passes 

 under the names " Messmate," " Peppermint," and even " Stringybark " and 

 " Woollybutt." 



Shape of the fruit. — As figured at fig. 4, Plate 36, Part VII of this work, nearly 

 hemispherical, slightly pear-shaped fruits, with nearly filiform pedicels are shown. At 

 'figs. 20-22, Plate XXXII of Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., xxiii, 1898, the fruits of 

 E. Sieberiana var. Oxleyensis (which at p. 195, Part VII of this work, I have stated to 

 be a synonym of E. Andrewsi), are shown to be so pear-shaped as to be almost conical. 

 This conical form of the fruit is also shown in Mr. Baker's plate of E. campanulata, 

 and also in figs. 5g, 5h, Plate 190, which have been drawn from Mr. Baker's type. 



Turning to the more bell-shaped form of the fruit from which Mr. Baker gets 

 his name campanulata, I have not a specimen so campanulate as that of fig. 5/, Plate 190, 

 which is a facsimile of fig. 3 of Mr. Baker's plate of his type. I think it is just a trifle 

 diagrammatic. The nearest I can get to it is fig. 4. This tendency to the campanulate 

 form shows a closer approximation to the type of E. Andrewsi than to E. campanulata 

 itself. What has misled Mr. Baker in proposing the species campanulata is too close a 

 following of typical E. Andrewsi without bearing in mind the variation as exhibited in 

 E. Sieberiana var. Oxleyensis, and his own figures 4 and 5 (reproduced by me as 5g and 

 5h). The drawings now submitted, viz., figs. 1, 26, 4, 5g, and 5h, Plate 190, usefully 

 supplement Plate 36 of Part VII, showing that in E. Andrewsi the range of the shape 

 of the fruits is considerable, and varies from hemispherical to conical. 



SYNONYMS. 



1. E. Sieberiana F.v.M., var. Oxleyensis Deane and Maiden (1898). 



2. E. campanulata R. T. Baker (1911). 



1. This variety is fully described in Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S. W., xxiii, 794 (1898), 

 with figs. 20-22, Plate XXXII. See my comments at Part VII, p. 195 of the 

 present work. 



2. Mr. Baker's species is described in Journ. Roy. Soc. N.S.W., xlv, 288 (1911), 

 with Plate XIII. 



