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Bodalla district (Dromedary Mountain). (W. Baeuerlen.) 



Having trtivolkcl about niiich in localities where the Si3otted Gum occuis, I notice that it is usually 

 accompanied by the Bunavrang (Macrozamia spiralis) — both sure indications of poor soil. Usually when 

 the Burrawang disappcais, Messmates, Stiingybaiks, &c., make their appearance and the Spotted Gum 

 disappears. Sometimes I travel for miles over a tract cf country v.heie I see no Euuawang, but cs Econ 

 as I notice the Burrawang making its appearance again I always expect that the Spcttcd Grm will ap jjcar 

 also, which is usually the case. (W. Baeuerlen, writing from Bat man's Bay.) 



George's Basin and Wandandian and South Coast road generally (J.H.M.). With 

 intermediate leaves. Milton (J. L. Boorman). Nowra (J.H.M.). 



A specimen in Herb. Kew in bud only labelled " Sydney Woods, Paris Exhib. 

 No. 95, Spotted Gum, 100-150 feet ; W. Macarthur, 1854," is E. maculata. To trace the 

 history of this specimen v\'e must turn to the N.S.W. Catalogues of the Paris Exhibition 

 of 1855 and of the London Exhibition of 1862. In the former catalogue it is called 

 "Spotted Gum" and "Mottled Gum," and the aboriginal name is given as 

 " Yah-ruingne." In the latter catalogue Illawarra is given as the place where the name 

 is in use, and " Booangie " as the name in the Counties of Cumberland and Camden. 



We now leave the South Coast, and the following locality is on the tableland, 

 perhaps as high (2,500 feet) as I have met it. Nye's Hill, Wingello (not common). 

 (J. L. Boorman.) 



Very large intermediate leaves. Theresa Park to Werombi, Camden district 

 (J.H.M.). Liverpool to Bringelly (J.H.M. and J. L. Boorman). " I believe picked up 

 at Mulgoa, AprD, 1810." (Copy of label in George Caley's handwriting, British Museum, 

 No. 43.) 



On sandy shale, f mile south of Prospect Hill, near Parramatta (R. H. Cambage, 

 No. 3590). We are now practically at Sydney. 



Following is an admirable account of the range of the species chiefly on the 

 " South Coast " of New South Wales, and with particular reference to the geological 

 formations on which it occurs : — • 



E. maculata . . . occuis just where the monoclinal fold, already alluded to, has thrown 

 down the shales and exposed the Hawkcsbury Sandstone, about 4 miles before The Oaks is reached. This 

 species ... is widely distributed throughout the coastal districts of New South Wales. By the 

 casual observer, erect trees of Avgopliora lanceolala are sometimes mistaken for E. maculata. In going 

 south from Sydney along the Illawarra railway line, the Spotted Gr;m is not seen, except for a few trees 

 just beyond Wollongong, until the neighbourhood of Nowra is approached, after which it becomes common, 

 and occurs at many points along the Milton road, such as at The Falls, and beyond Tomerong, where the 

 geological formation is of Permo-Carboniferous age. It is absent, however, from the igneous formation of 

 Milton, but reappears to the south immediately the sedimentary rocks are reached, being plentiful towards 

 Bateman's Bay and also at Wagonga, where some of the very finest specimens of this species may be found. 

 It extends into the north-eastern part of Victoria, but is only very sparsely represented in that State. On 

 parts of the North Coast of New South Wales it is a com.mon tree, and occurs in the Maitland-Singleton 

 district on the Peimo-Caiboniferous formation in company with E. crcbra, the Narrow-leaved Ironbark. 

 It extends to within about 20 miles of the Great Dividing Eange at Crooked Creek, on the Tenterfield- 

 Casino road. E. maculata is decidedly rare, however, in the Sydney district, and generally speaking, 

 apjjears to avoid the Hawkcsbury Sandstone formation. There are a few exceptions to this discrimination, 

 one being its occurrence on the sandstone just near the monoclinal fold from The Oaks to the western side 

 of Mulgoa, while others are at Newport, and on the Appin road, about 5 miles from Campbelltown. At 

 Newport, the Spotted Gum is growing on the rocks which form a remnant of the base of the Hawkcsbury 



