262 ON SOME N.S.W. TAN- SUBSTANCES. 



average breadth 19*25 mm. These leaves were evidently collected 

 clamp, for they have not dried green. They yield a pale dirty- 

 brown powder. 



Extract. — Yield 42 -14 per cent, to water at 100° C. Colour 

 of extract ruby, of moist residue reddish-brown. 



Kino-tannic acid — -16*62 per cent. 



60. Eucalyptus Sieberiana, F.r.Jf., (E. virgata, Sieb., B. Fl. 

 iii., 202). N.O. Myrtacea?. Figure Dec. 2 " Eucalypto- 

 graphia." 

 Found in all the Colonies except Queensland and Western 



Australia. 

 Vernacular Name — " Cabbage Gum." 

 Locality whence these particular specimens were obtained — 



Monga, near Braid wood. 

 Geological Formation — Granite. 

 Part of the Tree Examined — Leaves. 

 Particulars of the trees whence they were obtained — Height 



60 to 80 feet, diameter 1 to 2 feet. 

 Collected 28th September, 1887. Analysed 11th to 21st 

 November, 1887. 



Leaves scattered, sickle- shaped lanceolar, shining and nearly of 

 equal colour on both sides, more or less transparently clotted ; 

 their lateral reins more longitudinal than transverse and faint, the 

 intramarginal vein somewhat removed from the edge or evanescent. 

 (Eucalyptographia). 



Leaves lanceolate, usually narrow falcate and acuminate, 4 to 

 6 inches long or sometimes longer, thick and shining, with the 

 veins more oblique than in E. obliqua . . . and often very 

 indistinct. (B. Fl.) 



Tiie present are large coriaceous leaves more or less spotted 

 through insect punctures and evidently from a well-matured tree. 

 Average length 153*5 mm., average breadth 26*6 mm. Yield a 

 pale green powder of a yellowish tint, containing a fair quantity 

 of a line fibre. 



Extract. — They yield 32*31 per cent, to water at 100° C. 

 Colour of extract lemon, and of moist residue dirty yellowish-brown. 



Kino-tannic acid — 2*389 per cent. 



61. Eucalyptus amygdalina, Labill., var., N.O. Myrtacere, B. 

 Fl. iii., 202. Figure Dec. 5, "Eucalyptographia," and Tab. 

 3260, Curtis' Bot. Mag. 

 This particular variety is found in South-east Australia. 



