NOTES ON EUCALYPTUS. 461 



Pimpiniana to which it is also related, but less closely so* 

 The fruits of E. Pimpiniana are more ovoid and less ribbed . 



E. AMYGDALINA Labill. 



E. radiata Sieber (Syn. E. australiana Baker and Smith). 



E. numerosa Maiden. 



Messrs. Baker and Smith (This Journal, xlix, 514, 1915), 

 supplementing an earlier paper in "Proc. Roy. Soc. Tas." 

 1912, state that E. amygdalina Labill. is confined to Tas- 

 mania, and that the plant which has so long gone under 

 that name on the mainland is a new species, to which they 

 give the name E. australiana. It is proverbially difficult 

 to prove a negative, but in the strict sense in which Messrs. 

 Baker and Smith interpret E. amygdalina, I agree with 

 them that it has not been found on the mainland so far. 

 In view, however, of the fact that a number of species of 

 this and other genera occur both in Tasmania and the 

 mainland, a widely diffused Tasmanian species such as E. 

 amygdalina should be looked for on the Victorian coast, 

 and in more elevated localities in both Victoria and New 

 South Wales. 



E. radiata Sieber. " Narrow-leaved Peppermint." 



I do not, however, agree that the mainland species is 

 undescribed; it has, indeed, several synonyms. 



The authors do not mention what their type of E. aus- 

 traliana is, " the localities being too numerous to publish 

 here," (p. 516), but we know precisely what is meant, for 

 at p. 514 they give a reference to their " Research on the 

 Eucalypts," p. 168, with a plate (as E. amygdalina), and 

 through the 1915 paper we have reference to its occurrence 

 at "Nerrigundah, Yourie and neighbouring districts of 

 New South Wales," Tanto, Moss Vale and Reedy Creek, 

 all in the same State, while I have received a specimen 

 from the authors from Batlow. In addition, before and 



