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Range.—The Blue Mountains and Jenolan Caves on the west, and the Braid- 
wood and Moruya districts on the south. I am in doubt as to its northern range. 
Mr. Henry Deane has sent specimens from the range dividing the Bellinger and 
Clarence waters, which are nearest to var. stricta, and form one of the interminable 
series between it and E. virgata. It is specially interesting, as the species (in its 
scrubby form) had not previously been recorded much north of Port Jackson. 
3. fraxinoides, var. nov. (Syn. E. fraxinoides, Deane and Maiden.) 
A tall tree. 
Bark. — Smooth-barked, the outer layer falling off in ribbons; the bark blotched, reminding one 
somewhat of a Spotted Gum (E. macula fa) as regards its blotches, and E. viminalis 
(Ribbon Gum) as regards the stripping of the outer bark. 
Timber. —Pale-coloured, light in weight and colour, fissile. 
Juvenile leaves. —Only seen in the alternate stage, varying from bluntly lanceolate to almost linear- 
lanceolate ; slightly falcate ; twigs very glaucous. 
Buds. —Ovoid when young; as growth proceeds the operculum more or less pointed at the top, and 
thus assuming a somewhat conical shape ; up to 7 or 8 in the umbel. 
Flowers. —The peduncles flattened; the stamens indexed in bud ; the anthers reniform, with a very 
large gland at the top (in a very young state). 
Fruit .—Shining, nearly globular ; usually ^ inch in diameter, or a little less ; urceolate in young 
fruit, the neck being almost lost in the mature fruit. The rim sharp. The valves usually 
five, and very depressed. 
Range.— On high mountain ranges of the extreme southern part of New 
South Wales (Tantawanglo Mountain, near Cathcart). 
The affinity of this variety is closest to var. stricta. It differs from the latter 
in being a large tree, in the shape of the fruits, and in the venation of the leaves. 
The fruits are sometimes not very dissimilar in shape to those of E. maculata 
and the small form of E. corymbosa ; but the White Ash has no real affinity with 
either species, as it belongs to a different group entirely. 
4. triflora , var. nov. 
See E. stricta ( Proc . Linn. Soc. N.S. TV., 1900, p. 108). Top of Pigeon-house 
Mountain (2,360 feet), near Milton (R. H. Cambage). 
A small tree, a White Ash. 
Mr. Cambage’s note is—“Bark dark, rough at base, then tones off. Lower part only a little 
rough. Not even as rugged as E. pilularis.” 
Emits nearly sessile, and in threes, hence the name proposed for this variety. 
Pruits nearly hemispherical, with a slight tendency to he urceolate. 
The fruits of the arboreal form of stricta from Blackheath are also sessile, 
and are akin to this form. It would he desirable to ascertain, over large areas of 
country, to what extent the arboreal form of var. stricta has sessile fruits in threes. 
