686 NOTES ON THE NATIVE FLORA OF NEW SOUTH WALES, I., 



tudes, for while in the southern district now described, the White 

 Box is chiefly found below an elevation of 1,300 feet above sea- 

 level, on the northern part of New England it is not uncommon 

 at altitudes exceeding 2,000 feet. 



From Wagga Wagga to Tumbarumba, via Kyamba, is a dis- 

 tance south-easterly of about 70 miles, and along the first part of 

 the road the country has been considerably cleared, many plants 

 having probably disappeared altogether; and it seems quite pos- 

 sible there may be numerous tracts of cleared country denuded of 

 plants, without any record of their existence in the locality ever 

 having been noted. For about 30 miles the ascent is slight, and 

 the trees belong for the most part to the forms usuall}'^ found in 

 the low country, but gradually give place to those which occupy 

 areas on the western slopes, and these again are replaced, in many 

 instances on the higher altitudes near Tumbarumba, by the high 

 cold-country flora. 



During the first 10 miles the only trees noticed from the road 

 were: — Eucalyptus rostrata, Schl. (River Red Gum), E. mdliodora^ 

 A. Cunn. (Yellow Box), E. WooUsiana, R. T. Baker (Black or 

 Narrow-leaved Box), E. hemiphloia, var. albens, Miq. (White Box), 

 Casuarina quadrivalvis, Labill. (She-oak or Mountain Oak), C. 

 Cunni7ighamiana, Miq. (River Oak), Acacia decora, Reichb., and 

 Callitrig robusta, R.Br. (White or Murrumbidgee Pine). 



From the 10-mile post to about the 30-mile post near Kyamba 

 the following were noted: — Eucalyptus melliodora, E. hemiphloia, 

 var. albens, E. rostrata (along the creeks), E. Bridgesiana, R. T. 

 Baker (Apple; recognised as E. Stuartiana, F.v.M., by Deane k 

 Maiden), E. WooUsiaua, E. polyanthemos, Schau. (Red Box), E. 

 tereticornis, Sm. (Forest Red Gum), E. macrorrhyncha, F.v.M. 

 (Stringybark), and a few trees of Acacia dealbata, Link (Silver 

 Wattle). 



It was only near Kyamba that the Red Box and Stringybark 

 began to make their appearance. The trees of E. polyanthernos 

 had box bark on the trunk and branches, and in this respect 

 exactly resembled the Victorian trees of this species, though the 

 leaves of the Kyamba Red Box were lese glaucous and scarcely 



