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Bentliam says " from the Ht.y, Gordon and Tone Rivers in the same neigh- 

 bourhood are flowering specimens undistinguishable from E. calophylla, which may 

 possibly belong to this species." It may be said that dried flowering specim3ns of 

 E. ficifolia and E. calophylla may be difficult to discriminate from each other. 



Mueller (" Eucalyptographia") says: " From the western side of Irwin's Inlet 

 to the entrance of the Shannon, constituting a distinct forest belt in the coast region, 

 though not actually approaching the sea-shore." 



Brookes' s Inlet appears to be the most westerly locality, and it extends easterly 

 to the west side of Irwin's Inlet and the Shannon River to Irwin's Inlet, and northerly 

 to near Mount Hoskins in the Frankland district. The range of this species, which is 

 not very great, has not yet been definitely ascertained. It is so extensively cultivated 

 in gardens that one has to be on one's guard in recording localities for it, particularly 

 west and north of King George's Sound. 



Dr. R. H. Pulleine, of Adelaide, who made an extensive trip, found it " beauti- 

 fully in flower in December, 1917." He found it on coastal hills (some of them hundreds 

 of feet high), between Landers' Camp, about 15 miles north -north-west of Nornalup. 

 It forms flat-topped impenetrable thickets, 8-10 feet high, often so thick and inter- 

 twined that you could walk over the top, rather than get through it. He refei-red me 

 to Mr. Brockman, who obligingly replied as follows : — 



" Only found in its wild state along the south coast in small areas extending from Denmark to the 

 Nornalup Inlet, a distance of about 35 miles by roughly 5 miles. There is no large extent of it in this area, 

 and I think about 2,003 acres is about the largest area where it grows, scattered and in stunted trees. There 

 are a few clumps of flat-topped thickets mixed with other varieties of Gums. The largest tree, judging 

 from memory, was about 6 feet (sic) diameter and about 35 feet, with a ragged and spreading top." 

 (E. J. T. Brockman, Eeviley via Balingup.) 



It is in the National Herbarium of New South Wales from the following 

 localities : — • 



" Trees of 12, 14 and 20 feet," west side of Irwin's Inlet (Sid. W. Jackson, through 

 H. L. White). 



" Red-flowering Gum. Height up to 30 feet and up to 3 feet in diameter. Grows 

 on sandy hills near Irwin Inlet and on granite hills near Mt. Hoskins in the Franklin 

 district." (Dr. F. Stoward, No. 112). 



Shannon River; also near Wilson's Inlet (W. V. Fitzgerald). 



AFFINITY. 



With E. calophylla R.Br. See p. 78. 



