BY HENRY DEANE AND J. II . MAIDEN. 
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parallel with the margin. Pedials short. Buds : lid hemi- 
spherical, mucronate. Fruit globose, 3 lines in diameter. 
Bentham's variety radiata of E. amygdalina. — Leaves rather 
broader than type, 3-4" long. Fruit almost pear-shaped. 
Howitt's form (e) of E. amygdalina. — Leaves narrow-lanceolar, 
falcate. Venation rather indistinct. Marginal vein considerably 
removed. Lateral veins very longitudinal. Pedicels as long or 
longer than the bud. Buds : lid small and depressed, with a slight 
point. Fruit ovate- truncate, with slightly contracted orifice, com- 
pressed rather narrow rim, and small weak valves. (See his 
figure, op. cit.). 
The " River White Gum " of N.S.W — Leaves. The preceding 
(Howitt's) description applies very well. Very thin leaves. Pedicels 
rather long, often filiform. Buds nearly hemispherical; Howitt's 
description applies fairly well to this form. Fruit pilular (globose), 
very uniform in size (2.-2J lines in diameter), sometimes tending to 
close at the orifice. (PI. lvi., fig. 3.) Often pale-coloured when dry. 
Above is a comparative statement showing partial and condensed 
descriptions of K. radiata, Sieb., Bentham's variety radiata, 
Howitt's form (e) (both of aniyydaliua ), and River White Gum. 
Sieber gives the breadth of the leaves at from 6-7 lines. Most 
are of about that breadth, others go up to 9 lines, while we have 
specimens from the Deua (Moruya) River which has leaves with 
the exceptional width of 1| inches (nearly 14 lines!). Sieber 
gives the length of the leaves at 4 inches. These are too short as 
far as our River White Gum is concerned, leaves of 6 and 7 inches 
being common, while those of 5 inches at least are average ones. 
Sieber says pedicels short; those of the River White Gum are 
filiform and more than ordinarily long. He further gives the 
diameter of the fruit as 3 lines; we have never known it in the River 
White Gum to be quite 2 J lines, really a difference of some impor- 
tance when we note how marked a difference in the appearance of 
a small fruit half a line or more in diameter makes. Nevertheless, 
after careful consideration of the matter, and examination of a large 
number of specimens, we are of opinion that Sieber's original 
radiata was taken from a River White Gum. 
