98 THE AUSTRALIAN NATURALIST. 
bauks of a creek, which comes from behind “Cutaway” Hill, and 
then up to the top of a sharp incline Z. punctata and eugeniodes, 
You eross the Wombeyan Caves Road from Bowral, down the 
hill on to Berrima—Z#. radiata is the first met with, and then a 
clump of #. viminalis. The country here has been cleared for 
sheep and cattle, but on the crest of the first rise is a forest of 
EH. radiata—down again you meet FH. ovata—then f6r the first 
time H#. macarthuri, again coriacea, and as you reach the hill 
overlooking Berrima, FH. siberiana, a form of KE. eugeniodes, 
which looks like capitellata, and which is termed locally “White 
Stringy,” then ZH. stellulata, rubida, radiata and on the banks 
of the Wingecarribee River, 2. macarthuri. 
Once again starting from the Mittagong Station and ascend- 
ing the Gib, you meet the first stranger in HM. agglomerata, a 
glaucous form of capitellata, then viminalis, Smithii, gigantea 
var., frarinoides; H. Smithii is the principal tree on the summit, 
and, descending, 2. gigantea helps you down the steep hillside 
to Bowral, where you see H. macarthuri in all its glory, FP. 
viminalis and a large fruited form of H. radiata, which I under- 
stand has been named #. australiana on account of its oil con- 
tents. It is rather confusing, as it is impossible to distinguish 
a tree by its oil contents in the field. The size of the fruit ap- 
pears to be due to the fact that the tree is growing in volcanic 
soil, as you here find 2. punctata also with very large fruits. 
The district, in which you meet three classes of soil, is in- 
teresting as showing the partiality of some of the eucalypts to 
a particular soil; Smithii, for instance, is found only in the 
voleanie soil, Macarthuri requires also a rich heavy bed, radiata, 
like eugeniodes, will grow anywhere, #. agglomerata can only be 
met on the western slope of the hills, about 100. feet from the 
level. 
A large patch of Z. stricta is to be met with near the Jellore 
Road, and a single tree with every appearance of EL. stricta, a 
gum with scribbly bark, just before the turn off to Joadja. If 
you follow to the top of the first rise on the Joadja Road you 
will find #. quadrangulata (a box), some of the tree being at 
least 100 feet in height, and in Dalton’s Paddock on the eastern 
slope some very old trees of H. numerosa with heavy black 
woolly bark deeply furrowed like old ironbark trees. 
I have not met with any ironbark in the district. It ap- 
pears to stop at about the 1,700 feet level on the coastal slope 
