610 OBSERVATIONS ON THE EUCALYPTS OF N.S.W., 
specimens from ill-developed (?) trees; 4^ inches would appear to 
be an average length. 
Specimens up to nearly 2 inches in width are found in the Mt. 
Yincent specimens; 1J inch is a common width; 1-1 J inch may- 
be given as the average width. 
Buds. — Operculum usually blunt, though not quite hemi- 
spherical. Sometimes glaucous, as in the Wagga Wagga and 
Bell's Creek specimens. 
Fruits. — With a greater tendency to pear-shape than any of the 
preceding, and the rim to be domed or arched (PI. lvii., figs. 4-8). 
Usually shining. The tips of the valves occasionally a little 
exserted. The rims (mouths) usually red, a characteristic often 
attributed to hcemastoma, and the fruit itself often pale-coloured. 
The fruits from Bell's Creek, and from Mt. Yincent, Upper 
Williams River, Cobark, and other high lands to the south of New 
England are sometimes more truncate than usual, but the arched 
or domed rim can always be traced in specimens from the same 
tree. Fruits from Bombala and Wagga Wagga are small, and 
have much the shape of those of E. eugenioides, but they are 
distinctly "domed." 
There is a tree (" Messmate " or " Peppermint ") of which we 
have herbarium specimens from Delegate and the Snowy River 
which has shiny, comparatively thick fleshy fruits which strikingly 
resemble E. coriacea fruits in miniature. Prom examination of 
fruits alone (or even perhaps of imperfect specimens of leaves 
which when mature are comparatively thick), an observer might 
readily name the tree E. coriacea, and we have suggested this as 
an explanation of " Peppermint " being given in the " Flora 
Australiensis " as one of the names for E. coriacea. The tree now 
under reference has the usual fibrous bark on the stem as ordinarily 
observed in E. amygdalina. 
E. amygdalina and E. coriacea (not to speak of other species) 
are closely related species, and we express the opinion that they 
are perhaps most obviously related through the fruits and the 
leaves of our variety latifolia of the former species. 
