NOTES ON EUCALYPTUS. - AST 
juvenile leaves are as variable as any other organ, and e.g., 
the variation in E. viminalis is quite considerable. 
The young foliage of EH. eugenioides is markedly crinkly, 
and abundantly furnished with stellate hairs. But those 
of the seedlings are rarely narrow; they are usually of 
medium width, that is, approximating to that of fig. 2a 
(plate 40) already referred to. The young leaves of H. 
eugenioides are also variable in regard to length of petiole, 
often being sessile or nearly so. 
The strikingly narrow young foliage is common in New 
South Wales on the southern sandstone, say from Hill Top 
and the Upper Nepean and Nepean generally, through 
Burragorang to the Blue Mountains and the Sydney district. 
Going north, we have it in the coastal districts at least as 
far north as the Hastings, and climbing to New England, | 
in Many cases getting broadish. 
The broadish forms are common in Victoria (Gippsland) 
and in New South Wales in the coastal area at least as far 
north as Conjola, then west to Wingello. It occurs from 
Port Jackson to the Hawkesbury, but also may be nar- 
rowish. The broad form is common in New Engjand, but 
some Glen Innes specimens are also narrowish. The broad 
form extends to Queensland, e.g. Stanthorpe and Nerang. 
The narrow leaved forms appear to be commonest in poor, 
rocky, soil, but the matter requires further investigation. 
The Blue Mountains form of EH. Blaxlandi has juvenile 
leaves, in a certain stage, sufficiently similar to the broad 
juvenile leaves of H. eugenioides just referred to, to put 
one on one’s guard. Speaking generally, the seedlings of 
E. Blaxlandi are less crinkly (undulate), and less hairy, 
than those of H. eugenioides; they are also less petiolate. 
E. oblonga DO., see p. 234, part viii, C.R., also figs. 6 
and 7, plate 40, is a coriaceous leaved, angular-budded, 
nearly sessile, globular fruited form, commonly, though by 
Fr—December 4, 1918. 
