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Aboriginal Xame. I know of none. 
Juvenile Leaves. These become a matter of special importance, because 
they are the most obvious character to distinguish this species (and E. rubida) from 
E. viminalis. Juvenile leaves, whether of the seedlings or of adventitious shoots, are 
an important morphological character in Eucalyptus, largely employed in the 
differentiation of species, and very often narrow or broad. When two geminate species 
differ in that one has the leaves narrow and the other broad, we do not say they are 
conspecific. To act otherwise would be contrary to Eucalyptus classification as we 
know it at the present day. Just as the juvenile leaves of E. viminalis are typically 
narrow, those of E. Dalrympleana are typically broad. Seedlings or adventitious shoots 
of the two species are obviously different, and therefore they cannot be placed in the 
same species. 
I have a few notes on broadish seedlings in E. viminalis at bottom of p. 168, 
Part xxviii, Grit. Rev. In Tasmania, which is the home of the type of E. viminalis, 
Mr. Rodway (Proc. Roy. Soc. Tas., p. 16, 1917) says of it : " Juvenile leaves usually 
oblong, with a constricting base, opposite, sessile, sometimes broadly heart-shaped." 
In the volume for the following year (p. 88) I quoted broad juvenile leaves in supposed 
E. viminalis from near Hobart, and also from near Sheffield, also in Tasmania. I 
remarked : " It would be absurd to speak of such specimens (as) having narrow juvenile 
leaves," and therefore they do not belong to E. viminalis. 
Until I raised the question, no one seems to have noted narrow juvenile leaves 
on trees attributed to E. viminalis in Tasmania, but some narrow juvenile leaves have 
since been found on the island. 
In other words, we have in Tasmania the narrow juvenile-leaved form of 
E. viminalis, and also a reputed " broad juvenile-leaved viminalis," which appears to 
be referable to E. Dalrympleana. The type of the latter species is, of course, found 
on the mainland of Australia. 
Leaves (Oil). Mr. R. T. Baker has kindly furnished me with the following 
particulars in regard to the oil of this species, as worked out by himself and Mr. H. G. 
Smith at the Technological Museum. 
" The amount of oil yielded by this tree is greater from the abnormal leaves 
than from the mature leaves, the average being about 0-5 per cent. 
" Oil has been distilled from material collected at Laurel Hill, near Batlow, 
and also at Bungendore, both localities in New South Wales. The oil belongs to the 
cineol-pinene group, and when rectified would pass the standard fixed by the British 
Pharmacopoeia. The terpene phellandrene, does not occur in the oil of this species, 
a character which distinguishes it from those of E. viminalis and E. rubida. It also 
contains considerably more cineol than does the oil of E. rubida. 
' The cineol content in the freshly-distilled oil of E. Dalrympleana was 50 per 
cent, in both our samples." 
