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J. H. MAIDEN. 



since the reading of Messrs. Baker and Smith's paper, I 

 have received copious additional material from the localities 

 they mention from correspondents and the Botanic Gardens 

 Collector. This widely diffused species is E. radiata Sieb., 

 in other words, the mainland form attributed to E. amyg- 

 dalina Labill. 



It was originally figured, as a line drawing, at Plate 7, 

 u Mem. sur la Famille des Myrtacees" (A. P. de Candolle, 

 1842). 



In Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., xxix,751 (1904), and Grit. Rev. 

 vi, 153 (1905), I said "E. radiata Sieb., appears to be nothing 

 more or less than a form of E. amygdalina, very common 

 in New South Wales, and I see nothing distinctive enough 

 to warrant its being called a_variety." I pointed out some 

 differences from the Tasmanian amygdalina, but did not 

 take the step, which I think Messrs. Baker and Smith have 

 rightly done, of separating the Tasmanian and Australian 

 trees. Plate 62, Part xvi of my "Forest Flora of New 

 South Wales," labelled E. amygdalina, and drawn from a 

 Blue Mountains specimen, is E. radiata, and, excluding 

 the Tasmanian references, this Part gives a convenient 

 popular account of the species now under reference. 



E. radiata has been known as a copious oil yielder for 

 many years. A Mr. Simmonds of Marulan sent it to me, 

 August, 1892, and informed me that he was distilling it, 

 while on the higher parts of the Blue Mountains and of the 

 southern tableland, everyone knows how the vicinity of 

 such trees markedly reeks with oil during rain, or on the 

 approach of a mountain mist. I dwell on the redolence of 

 oil in this species under the caption "A beautiful and health- 

 promoting tree " in my "Forest Flora of N.S.W." Part xvi, 

 p. 132. We did not, however, know the composition of the 

 oil until the publication of Messrs. Baker and Smith's paper, 

 where they call it E. australiana. 



