Range - Setis

CCI. E. radiata Si.eb
See Part XXXVIII, p. 229, where its description, synonymy and range are set out.
Synonyms
1. E. phellandra Baker and Smith, “Research on the Eucalypts,” 2nd Edn., p. 280,
as follows, with a figure of an umbel of fruits.
Narrow-leaf Peppermint. A medium-sized tree, with a typical “Peppermint” bark.
Abnormal leaves lanceolate, cordate, sessile, usually under 5 inches long and 3/4
inch broad, upper surface darker in colour, branchlets scabrous, particularly so when
young. Normal leaves thin, lanceolate or narrow lanceolate, sometimes falcate, up to
7 inches in length and 1 inch broad, on slender pedicels; venation distinct,
intramarginal vein looped and well removed from the edge, a secondary less
prominent vein often occurring nearer the margin, lateral veins very oblique,
occasionally almost parallel to the midrib, distant and spreading. Peduncles usually
axillary, 2 to 3 lines long, bearing umbels of ten or more flowers. Buds clavate;
calyx-tube tapering into a slender pedicel; operculum hemispherical, umbonate.
Fruit pyriform, sometimes hemispherical, more or less shining, on a pedicel 1 line in
length; rim reddish, truncate, somewhat countersunk or even slightly convex; valves
not or only slightly exserted; 3 lines long and under 3 lines in diameter.
Mr. Baker's figure is of seven fruits (with scars of a few more) in the umbel. They
are not pyriform, but hemispherical; their comparative fewness and shape indicate
E. radiata. It is quite evident that Mr. Baker has confused E. radiata, redescribing it
under the name of E. phellandra.
2. E. amygdalina Labill., var. nitida Baker and Smith, but not of Benth.
Under this name Messrs. Baker and Smith, “Research on the Eucalypts,” 2nd
Edn., p. 278, have included two species. Specimens from Blackheath, N.S.W.,
September, 1919 (C. F. Laseron), furnished by the present Curator of the
Technological Museum (Mr. George Hooper) are the common E. radiata of the
Blue Mountains. No wonder the authors write, a little higher up the page, “The data
given under E. phellandra applies (sic) in almost every particular to this species, so
that no systematic description is required”!!! Material was distilled from
Blackheath. In “Research on the Eucalypts,” 2nd Edn., Messrs. Baker and Smith say
“As illustrating the comparative constancy in results with the products of individual
species, it may be mentioned that the above localities are over 600 miles apart.” The
two trees so many miles apart, with the same oils, are, however, not the same